It finally ended at $432,029 with over 9,000 backers. 10 minutes in they had blown through that. Image: Massif PressĪ beta version that the pair released on Google Documents in late 2017 elicited an overwhelming community response, which led to them running a Kickstarter campaign in spring 2019 that included a modest $46,000 stretch goal for a hardback book printing. Lancer draws heavily on the visuals, tone and atmosphere of sci-fi worlds such as Akira, Destiny and Evangelion. ![]() Lancer is the creation of Miguel Lopez and Tom Parkinson-Morgan, conceived out of their desire to create a tabletop game that blended their love of RPGs with their desire to play a sci-fi game with tactical, modular mech combat in a far-flung future setting that avoided the nihilism of grimdark dystopias and the fantasy of a utopian future that was anything other than a work in progress. This is the narrative setting of Lancer, a tabletop RPG that sees you playing an elite mecha pilot fighting on the outer-rim of a galactic human empire, Union, that is striving to better itself in a time of seismic changes. ![]() These Lancers are the cavalry, called in to solve the problems that cannot be resolved any other way. 13,000 years from now, in a universe where the death knells of an anthrochauvinistic human empire have shepherded the human race towards a post-scarcity utopia-in-progress, hotshot pilots clash on the fringe of civilisation in mechanised suits.
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