"It's not the fall that kills you..." | LANCER RPG // Operation Solstice Rain EP 01
10A new squad of pilots fresh out of the academies has been assigned to a recontact mission aboard the UNS-CV Rio Grande. It should be just a walk in the park...
LANCER is a tabletop role-playing game centered on shared narratives, customizable mechs, and the pilots who crew them.
Set tens of thousands of years from the present day, LANCER imagines a future where humanity has spread to the stars after weathering terrible ecological collapse on Earth -- the end of the Anthropocene as a consequence of unrestrained consumption and poor stewardship.
With a survival imperative motivated by this cultural history, humanity’s organizing body, Union, seeks to manage the galaxy to ensure we’ll never face extinction again. They are not perfect in this endeavor; the narrative present of LANCER imagines a future where Union’s central body has been gripped by popular revolution, and the new governing body seeks to rectify the crimes of the old.
LANCER features a mix of gritty, mud-and-lasers military science fiction and mythic science fantasy. In the setting, conscript pilots mix ranks with flying aces, mercenary guns-for-hire brawls with secretive corporate agents, and relativistic paladins cross thermal lances with causality-breaking, unknowable beings.