#lancer npcs

[emilostingender]

[szkin-art]

Some NPCs from my Lancer game I never got round to posting

IRON GUT: Sparri mercenary

AURORA-18: Deep Stasis Agni-class NHP

DR ASTRID HRESS: Blinkgate Manaraga Paratechnologies Institute

LA CONTADORA: Volador Matriarch

[vexwerewolf]

Not the original asker, but how would you make NPC equivalents of PC mechs? Some stuff feels fairly intuitive, but there are some others that I'm less sure of/not sure how to do.

IPS-N

IPS-N mechs are probably the easiest, since there are many mechs that are close to being 1-to-1 NPC approximations of IPS-N mechs.

Blackbeard - One of the easiest, since the Berserker NPC is basically just a Blackbeard. It has the Chain Axe, it has the reckless speed and it has the inability to properly determine between friend and foe. It doesn't have the Blackbeard's enhanced Grapple shenanigans but those aren't really appropriate on an NPC mech anyway.

Caliban - Give an Assassin the Devil's Cough Shotgun and Explosive Knives.

Drake - Take the Bastion, increase its HP just a little, remove the Rotary Grenade Launcher and give it the Scourer's Thermal Lance, except make the Thermal Lance do Kinetic damage instead of Energy.

Lancaster - Another easy one. The Support NPC is just a slightly slower Lancaster. It has a Latch Drone, it has Restock Drones, it has Whitewash, it's got all the fun stuff.

Nelson - Yet another easy one. The Cataphract does pretty much exactly what the Nelson does, just with added trample.

Raleigh - This is much more difficult - so much so that for In Golden Flame, I created an entirely new NPC class, the Slinger, just to simulate it. If you don't have IGF, start with an Assault. Remove the Assault Rifle, Combat Knife and Hunker Down. Take the Drum Shotgun from the Goliath and call it a Hand Cannon. Give it the Archer's Impending Threat optional.

Tortuga - This one's fairly simple. Take a Sentinel, upscale it to Size 2, give it Punisher Ammunition and the Bombard's Siege Armor.

Vlad - Take a Berserker, give it the Nail Gun optional, and then give it the Bastion's Near-Threat Denial System.

Zheng - Take a Berserker, give it Juggernaut and Retribution, remove Aggression, remove the Chain Axe and replace it with the Demolisher's Demolition Hammer.

SSC

SSC mechs also have a lot of parallels, so it's pretty easy to model them.

Black Witch - Probably the hardest mech to model with existing NPCs. I created another whole new class, the Lodestone, just to simulate these guys.

Death's Head - Take a Sniper, cut the damage on its Anti-Material Rifle to 6/8/10, strip the Loading trait and permanently give it the effect of Deadmetal Rounds (shots become Line 20 instead of Range 25).

Dusk Wing - Literally just a Hornet.

Metalmark - Take an Assault and give it the Operator's Fade Generator.

Monarch - Depending on the exact flavour of Monarch you want, you can do two things. Either take a Rainmaker, scale it up to Size 2 and give it Atlas Missiles the Ace's Missile Swarm, or take an Ace, scale it up to Size 2 and give it Missile Swarm.

Mourning Cloak - Literally just a Specter.

Swallowtail - Literally just a Scout.

HORUS

HORUS mechs are where we need to get a little bit more inventive. This shit ain't natural boys.

Balor - Take a Hive, give it Electro-Nanite Cloud and the Berserker's Harpoon Cannon, then give it the Exotic template and choose Regenerator. Or, if you have No Room For A Wallflower, just use the Lurker NPC.

Goblin - It's a Witch.

Gorgon - Take a Sentinel, scale it up to Size 2 and give it the Archer's Impending Threat and Suppress reactions.

Hydra - There's not really an NPC that simulates a mech deploying 800 drones and honestly that's probably for the best.

Manticore - Give a Berserker the Superhot optional, the Cataphract's Capacitor Discharge, the Sentinel's Combat Shotgun and the Operator's Self-Erasure.

Pegasus - Do not attempt to simulate me, ha ha.

Harrison Armory

Home stretch here.

Barbarossa - Take a Goliath, give it the Ultra's Short-Cycle Lance or the Bombard's Bombard Cannon.

Genghis - Literally just a Pyro.

Iskander - This is just a Seeder.

Napoleon - Why does this mech exist

Saladin - Scale up an Aegis to Size 2.

Sherman - Take a Scourer and give it Emergency Vent.

Tokugawa - Take a Berserker and give it Superhot. Make its Chain Axe do Energy instead of Kinetic, and instead of Shredding on crit, make it do a couple of Burn damage.

[shadefish]

Next Lancer NPC for the 2025 set

The Cataphract!

check out my art pack here!

also some Ultra/Commander variants!

[zybilna]

[zhjake]

unexpected space megafauna creates the conditions for a wide array of characters who want to either wonder in awe at the universe's mystery or just get the hell off the station once they finally get clearance From our Lancer module: A Wake Writ in Void

[lancersafetysigns]

[temporarynameiwillchange]

[karagna]

A year ago @fantastic-foxenstien and me ran a Lancer game called DEAD MAN'S GAMBIT where I made art for the NPCs that appeared in it! Here's the first 6 that the players met.

The premise was that it was a huge mech tournament taking place on a station. Mephisto runs the whole business and BLITZ is his assistant NHP who manages the backend. The rest art either other participants or relevant NPCs!

[high-noon-raccoon]

Our Lancer campaign: how we thought it would go versus how it's actually going. Featuring art by @lyndztanica of our resident criminal.

[szkin-art]

NON-HUMAN PERSONS

Technophile / Unstable / Sisyphus / Athena

[vexwerewolf]

[wealmostaneckbeard]

You are not the mech-pilot.

[pbcornylius]

December's Release

December's release is going to be a bit behind schedule (holidays be busy), but is on its way! In the meantime, here's a little peek at Lancer: High Value Targets, a set of unique and challenging boss NPCs designed to help you make your grand finale as grand as it should be!

[admiralstarnight]

Doing work for something Lancer related and being sick as a dog my fevered mind decided to make this really low quality meme.