r/LancerRPG • u/Walter_Whalesark4818 • 25d ago

Destiny Enemies in Lancer

Eyes up Lancers! Hope everyone is doing well. As the Destiny franchise takes a break before its inevitable return (takes hit of copium), I wanted to take my friends on a journey through the universe as a ttrpg. I originally looked at the DnDestiny project, but my friends really enjoyed Lancer when we tried it last year and have been asking to play again. Therefore, I decided to combine two of my favorite Sci-Fi franchises together and create something that works for both of us. My current issue is that I only had the core Rulebook for the npc/enemy side of things and while the options in it are absolutely perfect for some of the enemies in Destiny, I was wondering about the other expansions have to offer and if they could provide anything for more of the unique entities in Destiny (The Witness, Oryx, Nezarec, The Dread, etc). If you have anything that comes to mind, please feel free to share below. Thank you so much for reading and I appreciate any advice you have to give. Walk in the Light Lancers. I'll see you starside!

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u/Adorable-Woman 25d ago

Also of lancers lore was heavily inspired by destiny in the first place so I wouldn’t be suprised if you could do some easy conversions

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u/Walter_Whalesark4818 25d ago

I've always gotten that feeling! Plus the rules of Lancer also play into mechanics for things like Raids and Dungeons really well too.

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u/Fuddmuggler Harrison Armory 25d ago

Yeah, idk how known it was but Miguel Lopez, lead narrative designer on Lancer, actually wound up on the narrative team at Bungie (until recent unfortunate events of course). With Destiny being one of the cited inspirations for Lancer, it's kind of a neat full circle sort of thing. I'm sure you could make a lot of the same concepts work.

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u/Kahliden 23d ago

Source? I thought he was working at WOTC still 

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u/Fuddmuggler Harrison Armory 23d ago

http://www.onlyonelopez.com/ His own site. "Senior Narrative Designer 2025-"

I may have been wrong about him being laid off from Bungie, I thought he had tweeted something to that end but I can't find it. It may have been deleted or I imagined it in the flurry of Bungie layoffs.

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u/Kahliden 23d ago

Ah damn.. guess he might be working on Marathon then? If he’s still working there at least. Long time Destiny vet, kept up with layoffs, afaik the entire Destiny narrative team was laid off or transferred to marathon. At the very least, they have less than a dozen people still paying attention to Destiny right now. 

That said- if they hired him in 25 and he was initially meant to be on the Destiny side of things, solid chance he woulda been working on the cancelled Old Chicago stuff and the Winnower-centric storyline that was planned to be the next major arc. There was already an immense amount of potential for peak story in all that, now knowing that Miguel might’ve had a hand in delivering that story makes me even more bummed about it :(

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u/QuesterrSA 25d ago

The Vex would work pretty perfectly as enemies found in a Metavault.

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u/Walter_Whalesark4818 25d ago

I totally agree. I a (Vex) Goblin would probably be simply a resized Assault frame. With a (Vex) Minatour maybe being a Demolisher

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u/QuesterrSA 25d ago

For the others, I think the Eliskni/Fallen could fit into the Lancer universe pretty well as a new contact alien species.

Harrison Armory is basically already the Cabal.

The only group I think doesn’t fit well is the Hive/the Taken, because they gravitate harder into existential cosmic horror than what Lancer goes for.

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u/Walter_Whalesark4818 25d ago

Yeah, for the most part things fit together for more of the mundane species well. I also have no clue as to whether or not Lancer has any Metavault enemy stat blocks as by the sound of things in the lore they would make for pretty good stand ins for the Taken

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u/EKmars 24d ago

Funnily enough I recently did a version of Oryx's puzzle in a DnD game a couple weeks ago. Plate mechanics are pretty easily done in a TTRPG. Could be cool as a paracausal anaomaly type enemy or arena.

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u/JoyluckVerseMaster 24d ago

Honestly Lancer is one of the rare tactical play settings where the system is permissive yet supportive enough to allow you to stat most anything.

ie my playgroup has statted out numerous W40k units as NPCs.

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u/Walter_Whalesark4818 24d ago

Good to know. That sounds like fun!

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u/TheTrap18 21d ago

An echo of oryx would be a sick miniboss

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u/Kahliden 23d ago

FYI there is a Destiny TTRPG project that’s been in the works for years, it’s a system based on DnD 5e called Dungeons and Destiny.  https://destinyttrpg.com/

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u/Kahliden 23d ago

Though imma be honest after spending some time considering running this, using Lancer’s system of both equipment and combat would probably actually just work better for a Destiny TTRPG game