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As an aside for lancer almost all the mechs except maybe the evergreen cheat about their inside being the volume of or directly connected to their outside. Basically nothing can hurt the pilot even when it's broiling the mech enough to melt structure or hit with anti tank weapons. It's what puts them a league above very fancy space suits(setting also contains). The smallest class, 1/2 size, makes it very puzzling how you could fit all that in a mech that is basically the same size as a tall human in a space suit. In universe these are the bits of meta engineering that could probably be explained to you with a very advanced understanding of physics. The real wacky one is printers, which are more secure than NHPs in how lore treats them. Out of text they are a way to have cool space gizmos and not worry about ammo. In lore the four things they can't make are printers, NHP shards, food it isn't a war crime to give refugees, and whole cloth spaceships(though it seems to be a matter of assembling parts). I like Lancer lore mostly because the preceding governments collapsed because their war crimes blew up in their face when they tried to simply erase any inconvenient truths that challenged the underlying philosophy. They took control when they tried to alpha strike some people who didn't want to be ruled by them and managed to get a god like being to turn up on the other side. second directory fell due to mask off colonialism nuking a planet when they lost a war rather then quietly backing off. Third directory seems to be pre collapse because they can't win a war without compromising one or several virtues, or even admit they have a problem. Around the table lancer seems to actually want to be played by a diverse group of people around the table(though the game admits anyone stepping into a mech in a post scarcity society is a bit odd in one way or another anyway).
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Like any literature the 80s stuff is the product of it's time, it was simply far more acceptable to be casually racist. The bones of that showing through is pretty terrible. Always evil applied to designated punching bags is so obviously wrong as to be almost comical. When it's not making inherent character judgements it's usually okay. It can work with lore, ie all these people used to be four groups then a series of wars and disasters gave us 10 and some have existing bad relationships. It can also go full race theory and give you degenesis, an RPG I had to straight veto from the random RPG group after reading it. Saying that it was always possible to be better. Almost certainly we will eventually find problems with the material of today Barrel Cactaur fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Oct 18, 2023 |
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Paranoia continues to complete with the British government for who can reach the bottom of the technocratic hellscape first. It's so convenient that you can just look up British proposals/news and have material to directly parody or use outright.
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