r/dndmemes • u/DrScrimble • 16h ago

Other TTRPG meme Future problems require Future solutions

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System: LANCER TTRPG

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u/Conrad500 16h ago

Ok but it doesn't cover her concerns about liquids.

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u/EthanWright97 16h ago

Just add Personalizations for 1 additional System Point and you're ready to go!

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u/explosive_shrew 16h ago

I'd assume Lancer tier mechs are absolutely rated for liquids because the pilots die all the time

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u/diffyqgirl 16h ago

I mean, do they? Effects that kill the pilot before exploding the mech do exist but are kinda rare. Lancer wants you to be able to fail to the degree of getting your mech exploded without necessarily having to make a new character.

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u/I-M-R-U Orc-bait 11h ago

I mean, don’t you typically just come back as a clone after you die?

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u/diffyqgirl 11h ago

This was for a one shot rather than a full campaign but I did play with a player whose character was the latest in a long series of clones piloting manticores and blowing themselves up. She did indeed CASTIGATE THE ENEMIES OF THE GODHEAD and blow herself up. I'm not sure how well that concept would hold up over a longer campaign but it was extremely funny.

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u/jmartin21 5h ago

In my Stars Without Number campaign, one of my players asked if they could be a group of clones, and I told him, sure, just no mechanical benefits, with the idea being that clones can be used to show how dangerous places are and all that. Now he has a cloning facility and hundreds of himself and it’s great when they want to pilot a larger ship that takes a large crew

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u/diffyqgirl 11h ago

It's a possibility!

I didn't have a character die but I probably would have gone this route if I had because the ontological horror and the themes about being a replaceable cog in the military machine are fun with it.

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u/racercowan 5h ago

It's possible, but:

A) "fast" clones (as in grown in a few years instead of full test tube baby) tend to have a lot of physical and psychological defects

B) your clone is basically a new independent version unless you brainwash them with the dead guy's memories

C) brainwashing clones is really illegal

Like theoretically it's possible the government might say "well it's out only way to get lancers while your exploring planet bumfuckistan XIV 100 years away from civilization", but the rules are way more cavalier about cloning than the lore is.

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u/zekromNLR 6h ago

It's called a tarp

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u/slicedslippers 5h ago

I feel like ssc and horus mech's would work better with various fluids, ips/n would work just fine and have like, wet wipes under the seat, and HA mechs have an innate anti-horny zone that would make producing them difficult.

And of course you could modify a gms mech to just be a dedicated orgy barge.

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u/WamlytheCrabGod DM (Dungeon Memelord) 56m ago

Eh, just flash-print a new mech

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u/MisterFricks 5m ago

What about those fancy SSC breathable liquid cockpits?

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u/diffyqgirl 16h ago

This was the mvp of worst fight of the one Lancer campaign I played. We were trying to extract VIPs and definitely would have failed without it.

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u/WitnessUseful5738 13h ago

The expanded compartment got a guy captured in our playthrough. We were doing the solstice rain module and I took one of the two vip’s into my mech’s expanded compartment. A fight started and the other ran away while the one in my mech couldn’t when we lost the fight the one inside my mech got pried out and taken. While the other had managed to hide and stay safe so technically taking the expanded compartment caused one to get kidnapped.

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u/diffyqgirl 13h ago edited 13h ago

Haha ooof.

Expanded compartment giveth, expanded compartment taketh away.

Our combat was the save the professors mission from Shadow of the Wolf. We saved... two out of three of them. The two who aren't from the we aren't doing enough war crimes faction, in what I'm sure is a complete coincidence of tactical prioritization! Without the compartment it definitely would have been one.

I do think the module designers wimped out a little by making the least likeable VIP also the furthest away. It would be interesting to be forced to choose to risk more to save someone you actually like. It would also be interesting to make it harder for PCs to justify letting her die on purpose to others, if they choose to do that.

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u/Asplomer 14h ago

That's why you pilot a minotaur! That thing is bigger on the inside than the outside, it's OSHA approved as even a nuclear meltdown won't hurt the pilots or it's content.

Just don't do it on a metalmark, getting stains out of the ultra comfortable "gaming chair" is not worth it

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u/HavelTeRock Barbarian 13h ago

This is why you get it on an Atlas, Goblin, Kobold, or Caliban. Small mechs for maximum "connection" with your "copilot".

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u/supersmily5 Rules Lawyer 16h ago

"Appropriate licenses and integration." Okay, so what if it's another player's character riding shotgun? Or is that not how Lancer works?

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u/Anima_Sanguis 16h ago

You need to take levels in mechs to unlock their features/weapons etc, as well as sort of feats with specific manufacturers. If the other player doesn’t have the same build as you, they can’t pilot your mech to the same degree is what it’s saying. Anyone can ride shotgun, but not anyone can drive

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u/supersmily5 Rules Lawyer 16h ago

Okay; So it's weirdly (but respectably) realistic. Wouldn't have expected that.

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u/JVMMs 13h ago

To add a in-universe explanation: mechs are partially controlled through a brain-machine bridge and a mech is keyed to its pilots specifications. A different pilot just can't control the mech as naturally or efficiently

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u/supersmily5 Rules Lawyer 12h ago

Oh.  Okay so much for realism.  I was just thinking that being able to pilot one specific mech wouldn't necessarily mean you could pilot any mech; BUT I GUESS that works too!?!  XD

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u/JVMMs 12h ago

Well, what u/Anime_Sanguis said also all applies. While mechs are often mass-produced war machines, a player's mech is very personalised and customised, and someone who is not used to it and doesn't match your style of piloting and training also won't do well.

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u/ApotheosiAsleep 10h ago

You can pilot other mechs, you just have disadvantage¹

¹the term in lancer is Inaccuracy and it's a -1d6 to your roll², but shhh

²technically inaccuracy means you roll xd6, keep the highest, and subtract that number from your roll, where x is the number of inaccuracies you have applied to a roll³, but shhhhhhhh

³let's not get into how accuracy and inaccuracy interact with each other here, this post is already too long.

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u/TheDarkNerd 8h ago

Is it just a matter of one Accuracy cancels out one Inaccuracy, and if you have x Accuracy, you roll xd6 and add the highest die to your roll?

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u/Charnerie 8h ago

Yes. That's the entire thing.

Technically, you roll xd6 (x is the absolute difference between accuracy and inaccuracy), take the highest absolute value from the dice, then either add or subtract based on whether you had more accuracy or inaccuracy.

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u/Phase_Runner 16h ago

Nope, pc's are only licensed and integrated for their own mechs. Even if you have the same licenses, they're not your licenses. It's mostly an anti-cheese rule to avoid things like having two mechs at once or swapping mechs for weird interactions

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u/Scryser 15h ago

Babe, it's called cockpit for a reason.

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u/jzillacon Dice Goblin 12h ago

Alternatively the Girlframe system has rules explicitly for having sex using your mechs.

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u/GreedyLibrary 10h ago

As in you the person fucking the mech, the mech fucking another mech, you having sex in the mech or all three?

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u/jzillacon Dice Goblin 10h ago

All of the above.

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u/TheDarkNerd 8h ago

Does it have mechanics for gaslighting, gatekeeping, and girlbossing?

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u/jzillacon Dice Goblin 8h ago

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss is in fact very encouraged by the game.

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u/diffyqgirl 6h ago

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss as a trio of mech names on a 3 person strike team would be really funny.

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u/Skystrike12 Psion 10h ago

> non-mech

Well shit, there goes my three goblins in a trenchcoat dreams

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u/Charnerie 8h ago

You can do 4 goblins on a lancaster though. 6 if you really push it

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u/snarky_goblin237 1h ago

6 doesn’t actually need that much. Fomorian frame Lancaster. Then have the 6th become a wifi router

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u/TheCrassDragon 10h ago

What's really funny is that you can put it on a size 1/2 mech lmao

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u/RavenholdIV 5h ago

Fuck you, bringing the whole polycule to the suite in the back of my King Crab 😤

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u/dominionloser123 4h ago

The Lancer memes are breaching containment again. Give it a week, and the most incomprehensible nonsense will infect this subreddit too.