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LANCER - All I Ask: The Heaven Above & The Road Below Me
You are a Lancer, the best of the best. There's a galaxy out there that needs saving, pilots. Reach out to the stars and become a legend.
About the adventure
You and your fellow players are a unit of elite mech pilots. You decide whether you fight for Union, the Albatross, a mercenary company, or one of the Big 4; either way, you will be assigned missions against impossible odds. Explore a galaxy of infinite possibilities and bring mechanized firepower down upon your unlucky foes. Each session will comprise of a mission, and upon completion you will be rewarded with licenses to further customize your mechs. The main focus will be on tactical mech combat. Lancer is a crunchy, tactical game of turn-based combat with endless customization and tactics. Work together with your fellow Lancers to dominate the battlefield. Customize your mechs to handle diverse theaters of war, including the vacuum of space and the crushing depths of the ocean. Your pilot's skills and proclivities will help gather resources and intel before, and sometimes during, a mission. And all of this action happens against the compelling background of the LANCER campaign world.
Game style
Combat Heavy
Rules as Written (RaW)
Tactical / Crunchy
Game themes
$15.00
/ Session
Details
Weekly / Thursday – 3:00 AM UTC
Session Duration / 2.5–3 hours
Campaign Length / 10–13 Sessions
1 / 5 Seats Filled
Each player will be charged when a session starts.
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Meet the Game Master
About me
The name's Seth, but you can call me CTP! My goal is to provide the best gaming experience for you that I possibly can, and I have high standards! I've got over 20 years of TTRPG experience; at least 50% of that time was as a DM/GM running games for my friends. I consider myself an exceptional GM. I balance improv, acting, fun voices and accents, and thorough system knowledge with a sense of fairness, excitement, narrative development, and humor. I run pre-written material as well as creating my own adventures and campaigns. I also know what it's like from the players' POV. https://www.youtube.com/@CTP_GNG ^ check out my silly gaming YouTube channel if you want to hear some voices and SUCH; the Legend of Legaia playlist has a lot of voice acting nonsense I tell you what boy howdy.
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Proficiencies
Players say this GM is great at:
Knows the Rules
Teacher
Storytelling
My group has a wide variety of experience levels and CTP handles them all very well. He challenges the advanced players while guiding the newer ones, and not in a way that is overbearing or demeaning. I feel he wants to players to have fun and have their cool moments. His combats are fun and engaging, while not feel adversarial. CTP runs the enemies but is still on the players side. He also actively works with the party to help tune our gaming experience to the content we enjoy. Highly recommend checking out a game with CTP, you won't be disappointed!
Our entire table- wide array of experience- is so impressed with CTP. He is organized and prepared. He is creative and plays 'yes, and'. He's funny with great timing. He helps us keep things moving without feeling railroaded. He is good for beginners AND for well-versed players who can/want to noodle complex build possibilities- he is knowledgeable and supportive in that magical way that helps newer players learn what is possible without being overbearing or pulling time. He runs his NPCs intelligently and evenly- I've had adversarial DMs who make a campaign feel like we are fighting them and they are taking it personally above the table. CPT is with us and just relaying what we are seeing. He knows all the ins and outs of the platform he uses (Foundry) and was great at teaching us how to use it- not all who can do can also teach. We are so impressed and so grateful to have found him- his services are worth every darn penny.
I'm a party member in CTP's Friday night Lancer game. He is fantastic! The group is composed of new or fairly new Lancer players and CTP has been an awesome GM to walk us through our first few games. He knows the rules, helps us out when needed, but doesn't take it easy on us during combat. He is available through Discord to help between sessions and has been an absolute joy to work with. If you are looking to get into Lancer or want a GM to kick your butt in a mech brawl, I can't recommend CTP enough.
I've played in countless (IRL) games run by CTP over the past couple of decades, and I look forward to every session. I remember to this day the deep, gravelly voice of a blue dragon swooping out of the skies of Sharn nearly twenty years ago demanding of us "Get on!" and realizing that CTP had made our characters the center of what mattered in Eberron even before we'd found our characters' voices and habits. I can still picture the swift motion of CTP showing us how the drow cultists kicked over the tavern tables for cover and leveled crossbows at those of us who had not succumbed to their foul poisons. I hold in my heart the peaceful rightness of Grignak's complete unmaking by an elder brain in the final battle for all of reality -- it was truly his time, and there was no coming back. I shouldn't have been surprised by the FBI sting operation to catch my nosferatu for the serial killings he had committed (...before becoming a vampire), and yet I walked right into that trap because my pride demanded it -- and what a fall ensued. CTP will let the villain win, if that's what the dice (and your hubris) demand, but win or lose, the PCs own the spotlight. It's their story, one way or another. CTP is a GM for the ages. At our first session after the passing of Gary Gygax, CTP rolled for 1d20 seconds of silence. Fate decreed it should be a natural 20, of course. And so we honored the moment...before plotting the downfall of the great Giant King Gygax, pulling together every spell and novel trick available to us.
CTP is an engaging DM who is intuitive and empathetic. He will push you to the edge of what you think is possible and encourage creativity and out of the box thinking. He has a strong grasp of the rules and will use them to guide your adventure wherever you want to take it. I highly recommend giving CTP a chance to DM for you, you won't be disappointed!
Character creation
Creating your character
Follow the basic rules of character creation, all available for free from Massif Press! You will start at LL 0 with access to all GMS weapons, chassis, and systems. After each mission, you will earn licenses giving you options to new and exciting mechs.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Be sure you have access to Discord and a microphone, and a stable internet connection, ideally on a PC or laptop. We will use Foundry as our virtual tabletop (VTT) which has full integration with the LANCER rules set. You don't need an account to use Foundry, I will provide a link to the server. You should make an account on COMP/CON, the free LANCER web-app. It will help you with character and mech creation, and has integration with Foundry.
What CockroachTeaParty brings to the table
This game will use an advanced VTT (Foundry) which includes character sheets and integration with the free COMP/CON web app for LANCER. This game features intense tactical combat, and fully engages with the customizable and surprisingly deep rules for LANCER. There's infinite variety for builds and cool combos! I will be bringing my system knowledge and rules mastery, a helpful attitude, and a predilection for fun voices. The missions and scenarios will be created custom by yours truly, and your pilots will get to direct the course of the campaign!
Homebrew rules
I am banning the Prospector pilot talent from the Dustgrave supplement; it's just a bit too goofy for my tastes and we don't need mechs digging giant holes all over the place.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How CockroachTeaParty creates a safe table
Everyone will get a session 0 pre-game interview to cover any topics you are uncomfortable with, but I plan on keeping this game focused on giant robot action. Player safety, comfort, and inclusion will be handled on Discord to make sure everyone is in good shape.