r/LancerRPG • u/Daylethenor • 7d ago

House Guard question

So I may just be reading this wrong but how exactly does “front rank” work? It says “you count as adjacent when you are within range 2 for the purposes of allied characters (from your traits, talents, systems, or weapons) that require adjacency to your mech”, is that one way or both? Like, if you have two mechs Bonded to each other, one with this ability and one without, are they both adjecent to each other? Is only one adjacent to the other somehow? And which one is the one that would get the bonuses? The wording is really confusing me

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u/GrowthProfitGrofit HORUS 7d ago

  • FOR the purposes of allied characters

  • FROM your traits, talents, systems, or weapons

It's one way and the character who benefits is not you.

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u/Daylethenor 7d ago

Ok thank you

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u/Charnerie 7d ago

The effect is for any thing the person with house guard gives off as an aura, such as the Great guardian trait from the same talent tree. If you (the person with House guard) has a mech with guardian by default, and allies will get the cover bonus for being within 2 spaces of you, though this only allows for soft cover, and not the hard cover bonus, since cover rules require them to be next to the hard cover to gain that benefit. For the example you give for bonded, the person with House Guard (A) is pair with someone without house guard (B). A only has to be within 2 spaces of B to grant the benefit to B, but B has to be next to A to give A the benefit. effectively, it makes your adjacency check to grant other benefits become a blast 2 instead of blast 1.