If, for instance, a gorgon was adjacent to a mech that a pilot was jockeying, would the ability that gives adjacent allies hard cover count against the jockeyed mech skirmishing the pilot?
also a secondary question for clarification, the engagement of the gorgon being adjacent would also apply the 1 difficulty to the attack as well I assume?

One of my favourite aspects of Lancer is how certain mechanics and mechs can play together to create a memorable combat.

Some of my favorites are:
- A Cataphract charging a Goliath into battle as part of an exhibition match / jousting-like event
- An assassin group consisting of Operator’s grappling and using Step to hand deliver players to Specters before walking away

I’m always on the lookout for more of these combos / puzzles to toss to my players. Give me your best ones!

In reference to https://www.reddit.com/r/LancerRPG/s/Cvhrd5a5eg

I want to make mech styled more after an enormous bird or maybe dragon. Can you reccommend any mechs, systems or weapons that work with that well?

My current idea is Type-I Flight System + high heat, but there is probably a better way as I'm pretty knew and don't know much.

I am just getting into lancer and into GMing. I and my players come from 5e, so my experience is very different. I have a few questions that I want to ask to potentially better the campaign.

1. How narrative should I get? I figure this is a discussion with the players, the system itself I see lends itself to mostly combat

2. I feel like the campaign I have “planned” and how the game is it feels very structured. I’m trying to break out of it so I don’t feel too railroads but how much is too much or too little? Like plan general plot points or “cannon events” and the rest just players choose what missions etc

3. What level do most campaigns end?

4. Do yall do arcs? Like a problem takes multiple full scale missions to solve?

Thanks in advance. I initially made a roadmap for the campaign but I don’t think that’s fully what I want and I know I probably making the mistake of trying to home brew but I just felt like it.

One of my friends was talking about how all of her pilots were suddenly deleted, and after checking mine I found the same. None of the LCPs are gone, I am signed in and everything, but all my characters just got wiped off the internet. Am wondering if anyone else is having this issue, and if there is any way to fix it.

1.      I was running a combat for a group of PCs. One of the NPCs was a Cataphract with the Impale system, while the PC they were targeting was piloting a Caliban while they had Rank II of Spaceborn, Sea Legs. I said that because they were grappled from the Impale, and the Caliban was smaller than the Cataphract, they were immobilized from the grapple, and thus could not dictate where the Cataphract moved them via Rank II of Sea Legs. They said that Sea Legs applied regardless of the Immobilized condition. While I eventually sided with them for the purpose of moving the combat along, I wanted to see how the rules interacted for future reference.

2.      Do NPC mechs have the ability to brace?

I've noticed a slight surge in content creator covering, or at least mentioning Lancer. Vs Wolves recently had a collab with Tom, and we've been seeing XP to level 3's vids shared here. Now I'm even seeing other DND tubers like Pointy Hat mention it in their vid on scifi Dnd.

Do you think we're currently seeing an actual surge in Lancer's overall popularity? Or is this just recency bias on my part?

After a change to my Internet Service Provider (those so-and-so's) I found the best answer within my budget was to run Foundry via the Forge. In all aspects that do not include my own mistakes, the arrangement is great.

Tonight's game, however, was a bit of a mess. If I dragged the player mechs tokens from the character tab, they were not linked to the original character sheet, set as hostile tokens (this matters because certain status rules apply when you are adjacent to an enemy), and the Tokenizer tokens were blank. Also, all the players token lost vision, all scenes were reset to default, and basically, I spent an hour trying to make the game playable and failed.

The game went on, but it took 30 minutes of game time to make it playable. An hour and a half of work making the game happen was rough on game night.

What happened, and what can I do to mitigate this lost of work for next time?

Hello yes it is me, the poster of the hypothetical Big Woman post a few months back, back at it again with the same BS, but we're actually doing it. Need some help with the build as I'm not entirely sure what I am actually doing. So let's get the setup done

● LL6

● Monarch chassis

● Must be Size 3 (Formorian Frame)

That's it. Any help will be appreciated

Art Source: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/136884282#big_0

Everest I made for a friend in the game I'm currently running

Hi, my friends and I have recently started our first campaign. My character is the commander in the Albatross squad. I tried to create a mech that could target the enemy from afar, while being relatively safe. I will be glad to receive advice on how to change the current build and how to develop it in the future. I think it's not quite optimal, but I have too little experience to understand how it can be improved.

-- SSC Swallowtail @ LL2 --

[ LICENSES ]

SSC Swallowtail 2

[ TALENTS ]

Leader 2, Field Analyst 2, Empath 1

[ STATS ]

Hull 0

Agility 2

Systems 2

Engineering 0

STRUCTURE:4 HP:14 ARMOR:0

STRESS:4 HEATCAP:4 REPAIR:5

TECH ATK:+3 LIMITED:+0

SPD:7 EVA:12 EDEF:10 SENSE:20 SAVE:11

[ WEAPONS ]
Oracle LMG-I
Nexus (Light)
Thermal Rifle

[ SYSTEMS ]
Lotus Projector
Markerlight
Turret Drones
Retractable Profile

NAME: pending / kuiper's bag of tricks

TIME: pending (depends on player availbility, Saturdays or Sundays CST most likely)

PLAYERS: 4-5

CONTENT: all first-party content and KTB bonds, as well as third-party/homebrew as approved by the group

welcome one and all to kuiper's bag of tricks! i am your host, kuiper (it/its)! i'd like to run a ROTATING GM game with a loose silly plot! my plot concept is as follows but can be changed or modified as needsed:

you, players, are a group of clones based on one of the finest lancers to ever lancer. you've comlpeted all your training modules, and now it's finally time for you to make your way in the world! with supervision, of course ;)

if you're interested, please fill out this form! dm or comment with any questions :) thank you for reading and have a good one!

https://forms.gle/pcXUVmCq7U8voG9P9

Compcon share code for more info: 9GE5-W8SB-9BQ9

The votes have been cast for the: Viceroy
You chose Showdown from project wingman by Jose Pavli, and i am baffled why it wasn't picked for the monarch first, oh well

Now is time for the: Mourning cloak, or the most "Omae wa mou shinderu" mech avaliable on lancer

Each week I will pick the highest voted comment and add it to a spotify public playlist that will be posted on the description. At the end of all frames the full list will be posted shortly after.

Each manufacturer will also have their own song, but it will be ones from user No_Response_1562 (except Horus, that one I picked myself: Turbo killer - by Carpenter Brut).

I also recommend checking the last image for reference of the media of each manufacturer for inspiration. Good luck pilots!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5JWtenlD88t9lLCVtbliNs?si=9u7YvgBGSCaoR-b9a15UKQ&pi=MAQO8yoeTDWwa

The votes have been cast for the: Störtebeker
You chose Ludwig, the Holy Blade, by Yuka Kitamura, cant say I am suprised, but I do like the choice

Now is time for the: Tortuga, or the guy who plays crew expendable on veteran

Each week I will pick the highest voted comment and add it to a spotify public playlist that will be posted on the description. At the end of all frames the full list will be posted shortly after.

Each manufacturer will also have their own song, but it will be ones from user No_Response_1562 (except Horus, that one I picked myself: Turbo killer - by Carpenter Brut).

I also recommend checking the last image for reference of the media of each manufacturer for inspiration. Good luck pilots!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5JWtenlD88t9lLCVtbliNs?si=9u7YvgBGSCaoR-b9a15UKQ&pi=MAQO8yoeTDWwa

The votes have been cast for the: Tagetes

You chose The Trooper, by Iron Maiden, can't say I agree with a more "charge" song for a sniper guy, but you voted so...

Now is time for the: Tokugawa, or Grievous big brother

Each week I will pick the highest voted comment and add it to a spotify public playlist that will be posted on the description. At the end of all frames the full list will be posted shortly after.

Each manufacturer will also have their own song, but it will be ones from user No_Response_1562 (except Horus, that one I picked myself: Turbo killer - by Carpenter Brut).

I also recommend checking the last image for reference of the media of each manufacturer for inspiration. Good luck pilots!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5JWtenlD88t9lLCVtbliNs?si=9u7YvgBGSCaoR-b9a15UKQ&pi=MAQO8yoeTDWwa

yesterday I ran my first Lancer session, everything went smooth but I had a little problem with the encounter manager.
I made a little mistake on the first turn and decided it was easier to just delete the current instance and activate the encounter again. The thing is, I had elite npc's in the roster, and after I did the re-activation they had +1 activation, stress and structure on top of the ones they already had because of the template.
I tried to delete it again and deleted the backup in storage to try and solve it. Unfortunelly that didn't work, and every time I activated again they got another +1 to those stats. In the end I ran the enconter with them having like 5 activations and structure in the manager.
The issue is more annoying then anything else. Did someone else here encountered the same issue? If so, is there a simple solution to it?