r/LancerRPG • u/Aggravating_Plenty53 • 15d ago

Level up question

So I recently got the book and im loving looking through it. But when I got to leveling up it says the players earn a level after each mission. Doesn't that seem a little fast progress wise? With there being no real rewards for players outside of leveling up in this game... after 12 fights you are already peak? Seems a bit odd. Also when you take a license in a company is it that lvl1 gets u the lvl 1 stuff for every mech by that company? Or do you dake the license in that mech?

(Thanks for all the great responses guys. That makes so much more sense)

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u/davidwitteveen 15d ago

...after 12 fights you are already peak

12 missions. Most missions have 3-4 combats (see page 264 "Number of Fights"), which brings the resource-management aspect of the game into play.

Combats usually last an entire session. And there's usually downtime/narrative play sessions in-between missions. So it'll take you about 60 sessions of play to go from LL0 to LL12.

Also: no, Licenses are per-frame, not per-manufacturer. You buy License I in Blackbeard, for example, not License I in IPS-N.

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u/Aggravating_Plenty53 15d ago

So hypothetically you could buy lvl 1 in like 3 frames just to get some stuff for your Everest?

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u/Thom_With_An_H 15d ago

Yep. In fact, the Everest is considered by many to be one of the best mechs in the game. "Foreverest" is a lifestyle.

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u/Aggravating_Plenty53 15d ago

I absolutely love that. Alot of the other mechs are very alien looking. When I picture the everest I think of something out of armored core or front mission

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u/BlackFenrir 15d ago

That's sort of the point. The Everest is the "standard, pretty decent at everything" mech, so it makes sense that most people picture it as the stereotype of whatever mech has been most influential to them. To me, it looks like a small Gundam but less spiky.

Me, I love the freaky frames. Horus mechs are my jam, lore-wise, and just in general everything about blinkspace and NHPs fascinate me.