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6/18/2025, 6:29:22 AM
>>95894652
Not that anon, but I've been playing mecha war games and RPGs for a quarter of a century at this point. Tacking on other games (Mechwarrior and Battletech are 2 separate games), doing a shit ton of homebrew and house ruling (the ideal way to build the Mekton campaign you wanted), those things were normal.
I've also run Lancer campaigns with zero homebrew and minimal house rules (just expanding the Search action to speed up minesweeping), and it ran just fine, has been fun times for my groups.
>>95895646
A valid take (the part about reward systems), but not one I can agree with. Most of my Mechwarrior, Mekton, Heavy Gear, and Jovian Chronicles campaigns had us "working for the state" and our upgrades came from getting "good boy points" rather than money (even if that existed in the system, mechs were expensive!).
Meanwhile, I've never played or run a Lancer game where the PCs were working for a government except as mercs, and even then they tend to go rogue halfway through. Just because the License system is a weird abstraction doesn't mean mercs aren't getting paid, PCs aren't able to pursue their own goals, and that there is no reward system in place.
Not that anon, but I've been playing mecha war games and RPGs for a quarter of a century at this point. Tacking on other games (Mechwarrior and Battletech are 2 separate games), doing a shit ton of homebrew and house ruling (the ideal way to build the Mekton campaign you wanted), those things were normal.
I've also run Lancer campaigns with zero homebrew and minimal house rules (just expanding the Search action to speed up minesweeping), and it ran just fine, has been fun times for my groups.
>>95895646
A valid take (the part about reward systems), but not one I can agree with. Most of my Mechwarrior, Mekton, Heavy Gear, and Jovian Chronicles campaigns had us "working for the state" and our upgrades came from getting "good boy points" rather than money (even if that existed in the system, mechs were expensive!).
Meanwhile, I've never played or run a Lancer game where the PCs were working for a government except as mercs, and even then they tend to go rogue halfway through. Just because the License system is a weird abstraction doesn't mean mercs aren't getting paid, PCs aren't able to pursue their own goals, and that there is no reward system in place.
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