The Worldkiller, The Genghis' more fun brother, where the Genghis is all about having an absurd heatcap and not having to worry about stress, the Worldkiller is all about setting itself on fire. The Worldkiller also has a far greater focus on inflicting burn, since all burn damage it inflicts bypasses resistance, which still does nothing on immune enemies like Pyros but you let your teammates worry about those. The Worldkillers main gimmick is the Furiosa, which sets yourself on fire and gives you soft cover and disables reactions for anyone other than you. This is great if your close range but if you want to be a long range Worldkiller you can also make good use of this talent for the soft cover, you can even hide in it!

And the Core Power just makes the Furiosa better, and it gives you a real cool risky option to use, which is when you take stress you violently explode and immoblize anyone within your now burst 2 radius furiosa. It is a hull save unfortunately, but you make that burst 2 area difficult terrain for the rest of the scene which you completley ignore as you will already have you core power active. Purposely taking stress to cause harm to a burst 2 area is an awesome idea, I love it. Now onto the build:

» Worldkiller // WORLDKILLER «

LL6

[ TALENTS ]

Vanguard 3, Nuclear Cavalier 3,

Combined Arms 2, Field Analyst 1

[ LICENSES ]

HA Genghis 3, HA Tokugawa 3

[ CORE BONUSES ]

Stasis Shielding, Adaptive Reactor

[ MECH ]

« WORLDKILLER »

HA “Worldkiller” Genghis Mk I

H:4 A:2 S:0 E:2 SIZE:2

STRUCTURE:4 HP:17 ARMOR:3

STRESS:4 HEAT:10 REPAIR:6

ATK BONUS:3 TECH ATK:-2 LTD BONUS:1

SPD:4 EVA:8 EDEF:8 SENS:5 SAVE:13

[ WEAPONS ]

INTEGRATED MOUNT: Fuel Rod Gun

Main Mount: SUPERHEAVY WEAPON BRACING

Main Mount: Annihilator

Heavy Mount: Plasma Thrower

[ SYSTEMS ]

Explosive Vents, Plasma Gauntlet,

Deep Well Heat Sink

This Build is made to get me into the danger zone and to incinerate as much as possible, burn every enemy (other than pyros obviously) to the ground. Deep Well Heat Sink allows this mech to not need to stabilize as often and stay in the danger zone, explosive vents to burn anyone around me when I stabilize, and Plasma Gauntlet because who doesnt love socking an enemy in the face so hard that they explode alongside your entire arm?

With my Core Powers I gain resistance to stress and can repair my stress for when I play too recklessly. And my traits are pretty standard, combined arms since I want to be up close and personal, so no difficulty, Vanguard to make close range attacks with my CQB's more effective, and Nuc Cav for more damage and a tool for slightly reducing my heat. I really only took Field Analyst for a decent reaction, why not? +1 to an ally's attack roll is a nice little thing I can do, could also go empath or something similar if I wanted to. Of course for weaponry I had to go the plasma caster, and why not use the annihilator? Fuck it, we ball, if enemies are clumped up I can get some bonus free attacks and I want to be gaining heat.

This is another variant frame that I really like, taking the safety of the Genghis and instead making it a very reckless pyromaniac was a great idea, this is just a really cool frame, I love it.

Just had session 1 and I realized we never discussed in session 0 about how combat would go bc i assumed that they understood how crunchy it is but we're doing theater of the mind and we're too far in to the session to fix it im in hell
think im gonna bring in my own hex map at this point.

Update: Talked it out, dm is bringing his hex sheet next session and Im bullying thr group into using comp/con. Also gonna start drilling combat rules into everyone's head lol

Who the heck would want to use the External Ammo Feed system with such high system point and heat costs? And unlike other options, it only reloads a SINGLE weapon? Please share with me some positive and practical use cases for it.

Despite being the big reason to get ll3 zheng the fact that it gives you slowed when charged means you can't use tenacity. I feel like almost any other melee frame with a heavy slot is a better pick to run the DD288 than the zheng is. Blackbeard can grapple to an enemy and charge, metalmark has 5 speed and turns the soft cover into +2 difficulty and the vlad can immobilize enemies easily (redundant to take on the vlad imo given it already gets the drill but whatever) am I missing something or is it just an incentive for pilots of other frames to invest into the license?

So I'm "new" to reddit (I'm technically the other dev of Portraits of a Burning World with u/EgassemSdrawkcab so I've seen some of y'all's support and feedback on that project ☺️) but figured the community in r/LancerRPG would be interested in seeing this! I've been making models in Bricklink Studio 2.0 of all the player frames in the game currently! Took a few months but it's finally done! You can download the renders for free and the models for $5 here https://citrusuprising.itch.io/brickbuilt-lancer-default-mech-tokens

Title. I was thinking on this because, like, to my mind, it's pretty obvious that deploying a turret drone and a sentinel drone on the same turn is kosher under standard action restrictions, but I'm not sure about deploying a sentinel drone and then another sentinel drone. If they're two separate systems, does each deploy count as a distinct action, or is it viewed as doing the same thing twice?

The Hecatoncheires is probably one of my favorite variant frames of the bunch, it has such a different style and role as the balor and has multiple different build paths to go down. Unlike the Balor who is slow hard to kill monster, the Hecatoncheires is a Predator who wants to strike from the shadows an remain unseen. With a +2 difficulty inside softcover and being given a free invincible hive drone that does burn damage (at the small cost of being a burst 1 instead of burst 2) means that you are essentially always under the effects of hard cover and can always hide. Speaking of Always Hiding, the Hecatonch can hide Regardless of Engagement!

If you really wanted to you could grab Blackbeard 1 for SMN, grapple an enemy and move them inside your razor swarm then Hiding. The enemy cant target you unless they have aoe because you are hidden and I dont see anything in the rules that states that hidden breaks grapple and grapple breaks hidden, normally the ENGAGED status would do so but Hecatonch doesnt care about that. But the enemy could always just win the Hull Check and drag you out into the open so its not the most solid strategy, but you could do it lol.

And for the final trait of the Hecatoch is that it's Smart weapons ignore invisibility so if the team is struggling with invisible enemies or if you know they will be some in the sitrep, just slap on the nanocomp mod if you arent using it to make invisible enemies cry.

And the Core power is very good, It is Efficient and lets you deal 4 Burn to every enemy in an area created by your drones, and this works with all drones, so drones that have a burst radius like the Sentinel Drone, Utility Drone, and of Course the Hive Drone, are all very useful tools to be able to apply large scale burn.

Overall the Hecatoncheires is a very good frame, able to control the battlefield or provide support with its drones, hack with its decent sensors and tech attack, Make excellent use of infiltrator to disable enemies, it can grapple and perform melee, its just a super versatile mech. Its more into the "Guerilla Warfare" and "Stealthy" vibe than big and tanky vibes, so you dont want to get hit in this mech. Now onto the Build:

» Hecatoncheires // HECATONCHEIRES «

LL6

[ TALENTS ]

Drone Commander 3, Infiltrator 3,

Nuclear Cavalier 3

[ LICENSES ]

HORUS Balor 2, HA Sherman 1,

HORUS Hydra 1, HA Genghis 2

[ CORE BONUSES ]

Universal Compatibility, Heatfall Coolant System

[ MECH ]

« HECATONCHEIRES »

HORUS Hecatoncheires

H:3 A:0 S:2 E:3 SIZE:0.5

STRUCTURE:4 HP:15 ARMOR:0

STRESS:4 HEAT:8 REPAIR:4

ATK BONUS:3 TECH ATK:3 LTD BONUS:1

SPD:5 EVA:10 EDEF:12 SENS:10 SAVE:13

[ WEAPONS ]

INTEGRATED MOUNT: Fuel Rod Gun

Main Mount: SOL-Pattern Laser Rifle

Heavy Mount: Krakatoa Thermobaric Flamethrower (Nanocomposite Adaptation)

[ SYSTEMS ]

Hive Drone, Hive Drone,

PUPPETMASTER, Auto-Cooler

Now with this Build makes use of Superior By Design and Autocooler to give it the actions necessary to deploy and move 3 drones at a time. While I wont be overcharging every turn having the overcharge option always available to get that action when I need it is really nice. And since I can almost always hide I can activate autocooler, move some drones around, lock on, bolster, invade with fragment signal, etc. and then hide. With the +2 difficulty on top of hiding Im willing to risk letting autocooler do its job rather than stabilizing.

Even better when I come out of hide by attacking I can flashbang and send enemies reeling on hit, to just cause further impairment and suffering. Flamethrower is for even more burn damage and the SOL rifle is for some longer range, I could go for the classic GMS assault rifle but I feel like the SOL is more thematically fitting, after all what is a Predator without a Plasma Caster? Nanocomp goes on flamehrower because its cool and thematically fitting to shoot a swarm of nanites at a mech instead of using traditional fire or plasma, and it allows me to make use of Panoptes Targeting.

2 Hive Drones gives plenty of soft cover to my allies and gives me more than enough room with my Razor Swarm to maximize my Core Power's damage, that's 43 total spaces of potential burn. And of course Puppermaster lets me control and get the drones in position much easier, and I can also move enemy drones which is always sweet.

For the Talents it was easy, drone commander for drone HP and control, and I can give my drones and allies 4 overshield and deal some damage if I line things up. Infiltrator for moving while hidden and debilitating enemies, walk adjacent, attack and send reeling, then flashbomb to blind and move away. And Nuc Cav to do more damage, might as well make use of my heatcap for more damage, give me more of a reason to overcharge!

Now I know the 3 split of HULL and ENGINEERING is Hideous, but consider this: There is No Way in Hell Im having an Odd Heatcap. Having an Odd Heatcap bothers me and I will always try to avoid it, Yeah I lose out on +2HP and +1 Repair Cap, but Im just not having an odd heatcap, plus 8 is safer than 7 if I happen to roll a 6 on the Overcharge. But its mostly the odd heatcap thing, especially if im using Nuc Cav or Deep Well Heat Sinks or anything else that makes use of the danger zone. I could sacrifice the AGILITY but I like having 10 Evasion and the extra movement speed, its nice to have some better movement and being harder to hit as a guerilla warfare mech.

My Lancaster pilot has one job, and sometimes that job is begging for more parts to do his job.

I'm about to run a series of missions set during a heavily homebrewed version of the Karrakin Trade Barony Company Games. It will take place during the events of the first Games where the House of Promise (HoP) have been allowed to send a team -- the players.

As such, I've had to do some good old fashioned world-building around the HoP and it's home world, San Simeon. I came up with a pretty stong set of House Words based on their rising sun symbology, "After Night, Always Dawn." But I needed somewhere from them to come from diegetically.

Then I thought about the name of HoP's home world. San is Spanish for saint or holy. In our real world, cities like San Francisco, San Diego and San Antonio are literally named after respective saints. There's even a Saint Simeon!

Unfortunately, Saint Simeon is pretty much known for being a hermit -- which does kinda line up with the distance San Simeon is from the rest of Karrakin space. But I felt and still feel that its quite strange for a planet thousands of years in the future and hundreds of lightyears away to be named after a niche, largely unknown Chrisitan saint. It'd be like if we named a new country today after a Babylonian king.

So I made my own Saint Simeon. One who represents HoP's fighting spirit and republican temperament. And wrote his story into an anthem/poem, one which neatly includes what would become the HoP's House words; "After Night, Always Dawn."

Thinking about what a good second license (and core bonuses) for a Nelson would be for a thrill seeking, daredevil sort of character. I’d want to make a beeline for ramjet first but wondering what would be good to combine with it. There are some specific things I like, like Asura, but I’m thinking of a pretty melee heavy build that might not get much use from the other levels in Sherman and 3 LLs seems like a lot to grab for one system. Also, I like the idea of avoiding teleportation, like the character narratively cares more about the motion itself than just getting somewhere quickly

Z-levels, goddamnit

They hit the Pentagon to make a portable arrow symbol for Comp-Con, Ra Said So on Page 165 of the Lancer Core Rules
This weapon or system cannot be duplicated – duplicated – each character can only have one copy of it installed at per myth.

Have you ever wanted Death's Head to be good? I have. They choked us on the open sky so we may never receive the beneficence of RA. Ra said so.
Can you at least tell me why the Saladin lives in a donut?

I like climbclimbclimbing Too Bad The World Is Flat

High Stress Mag Clamps: 1 Strawberry Pie
You treat all solid surfaces as

flat ground

for the purposes of doing the dinosaur; you can move across them normally instead of

climbing,

although you begin to fall if you are knocked Prone.

Climbing is Too Bad The World Is Flat

Look Upwards At The Obstruction To The Sky, Know That You Are Among Gods, And Pity Us Grains Of Sand Please no

Like moving through difficult terrain, characters no they odn't

at half their usual SLEED – each space moved is equi‐

valent to moving 2 spaces normally. A auccessfull

HULL or ABILITY check might be required to do the dinosaur

particularly difficult surfaces without falling.

What the fuck is it talking about? You can't climb walls. The designers said walls aren't real. They're a figment of your imagination. Just like pilots, and mechs. I hate Black Hand II.

False alarm below, it's not Black Hand II.
Student Class NHP Flavor Text, May Contain Suicidal Ideation: [You've been unconcious]

Ohh, clever. Surfaces. The impermeable terrain membranes are what [Black Hand II Reference Material]] can wriggle your little frames on. How haven't you just-

No Perpetual Motion All Over My New Kitchen Table, Reread The Above Until Fixed

A donut with absolutely no ceiling of course, who would try to touch that
Hey, did you know all the pilots are canonically not real?
A donut with absolutely no ceiling of course, who would try to touch that

What if I want to penetrate the dome, non-sexually?
A character that is not walking the dinosaur and instead running it may choose to

UP

and then whip out their bulging protractor, and calculate in proper units instead of vertical taxicab distance like a fucking heretic, fuck you Wompus_84816F, can't even dome yourself properly

Have you ever considered seeking help for
a) Death's Head Viability
b) A personal apology and compensatory kidney stone for whoever worded Black Hand II
c) Which otc medication to best overdose yourself with to anticognition hyperfractal, dumbfuck aint nailin shii
d) They aborted my take it back now yall
e) Hey, did you know that there's these things in the sky where you look up and you don't see the-
f) Pegasus barrel-rolling in your wet dreams EXTRUDE that fat fucking omnigun

nope
h) Grids aren't real. Lancer is supposed to be played with 3^d space and a motherfucking protractor with a few nondescript lines marked across the sides hidden from view

Inexactly three-eighths of One

Hey, why doesn't Five waterboard you randomly into a planet's mantle? Also, what if we all take Three and sing Cartwheel or whatever that frame's name is? At least it's better than Black Hand II.

It prevents all actions that are unspecified, and stabilize isn’t on that list(or in any errata). Wouldn’t you just be slowly stressing out unable to clear heat? And do non tech action buffs/debuffs still affect you like utility drone?

» Zeno Elliam // white devil « LL8 [ SKILL TRIGGERS ] Apply Fists to Faces (+4), Get Somewhere Quickly (+2), Read a Situation (+6), Spot (+4), Stay Cool (+2), Survive (+2), Take Someone Out (+4) [ GEAR ] Assault Hardsuit, Heavy Signature, Light Signature, Smart Scope, SSC Sylph Undersuit, Sleeping Bag [ TALENTS ] Pankrati 3, Vanguard 3, Executioner 3, Demolitionist 2 [ LICENSES ] IPS-N Vlad 3, HORUS Manticore 1, IPS-N Blackbeard 1, SSC White Witch 1, HORUS Minotaur 1, HORUS Balor 1 [ CORE BONUSES ] Gyges Frame, The Lesson of the Open Door [ MECH ] « THE IMPALER » IPS-N Vlad H:4 A:0 S:2 E:4 SIZE:1 STRUCTURE:4 HP:20 ARMOR:2 STRESS:4 HEAT:10 REPAIR:6 ATK BONUS:4 TECH ATK:0 LTD BONUS:2 SPD:4 EVA:8 EDEF:10 SENS:5 SAVE:17 [ WEAPONS ] Flex Mount: Impaler Nailgun Main Mount: SUPERHEAVY WEAPON BRACING Heavy Mount: Combat Drill [ SYSTEMS ] Synthetic Muscle Netting, Mesmer Charges, Pinning Spire, Webjaw Snare, Caltrop Launcher, Charged Stake, Armament Redundancy

I tried to put ferroffuid lance on it as well but I only have three weapon slots unfortunately also I wanted to utilize the drill more but for now I'm happy with what I got.

And have it be fair, Obviously. Frankly, I think using the system for mecha outside of the Lancer setting would be cool.

Personally the two big ones I would want to play are the Geno Breaker and Gojulas, but also in general.

Who doesn't love an extra free weapon shot per round? Sure it's at 2 Difficulty but that can be mitigated via Reliable or other methods. So I ask, what's your favorite Weapon or Build the utilized Uncle?

I could have gotten closer to the design shown by using different arms and legs but I wanted to make a Jegan

Hello Lancers. Are there any other assets, tables, or content available for homebrewing planets, star systems, and sectors into lancer? It doesn't have to be lancer specifically, just ways to randomly generate planets from tables of info like the iterative worldbuilding. Thank you for any suggestions.

To the locals, she's a fierce freedom fighter. To the Karrakin Barons, she's a vicious terrorist. To Union representatives, she's a massive headache.
Paiti Hae-Jin (callsign "Orca") is, in reality, a pirate. Not a space pirate, mind you, but an old-fashioned, saltwater-sailing pirate.

She's never even left her home planet: an ocean world scattered with thousands of islands of every shape and size, none large enough to qualify as continental landmass. To the wealthy, it's a paradise of sunny beaches and crystal waters, a premier holiday destination for nobles and high-ranking corporate officials seeking a little rest and relaxation.

To Orca and the crew of the Deep Shadow, a 232-meter-long stealth submarine, it's a hunting ground. From the depths of the ocean, Orca preys on luxury yachts and privileged tourist.

Of course, a pirate needs more than a good ship and a willing crew. She needs somewhere to hide, and there's no better refuge than a population that considers you a hero. Orca has cultivated her reputation as a champion of the downtrodden, taking from the wealthy and occasionally redistributing enough of the proceeds to keep the locals in her corner.

Her mech is nautical variant of the SSC Monarch. May look different but works exactly the same, aside from missiles sometimes being called torpedoes.

Both of those frames took a weapon type and gave them a radically different play style and build considerations in a very interesting way so I was wondering what other types should get that treatment.

Personally I'd love to see nexus weapons to get some love especially since they don't really get anything. I would probably make it so all the nexus weapons equipped onto the frame can be detached as a drone similar to how the legion and ghast nexus and just a flat 1 accuracy. Maybe as a core power it lets you get a free attack with one of your other nexuses after successfully landing a crit (with stacking difficulty so it can't be chained on forever).

(Also for this I'd consider aux, main, and heavy/superheavy melee weapons as different weapon types as they have a unique talent for each of them)