Dark Horse Books Lancer RPG Core Rulebook - Gameology

Lancer is a tabletop role playing game centered on shared narratives, customizable mechs, and the pilots who crew them.

Set many thousands of years from the present day, Lancer imagines a future where a survivor humanity has spread to the stars after weathering terrible ecological collapse on Earth -- the end of the Anthropocene as a consequence of unrestrained consumption and poor stewardship.

With a survival imperative motivated by this cultural history, humanity's organizing body, Union, seeks to manage the galaxy to ensure we'll never again be faced with extinction. They are not perfect in this endeavor; the narrative present of Lancer imagines a future where Union's central body has been gripped by popular revolution, and the new governing body seeks to rectify the crimes of the old.

Lancer features a mix of gritty, mud-and-lasers military science fiction and mythic science fantasy. In the setting, conscript pilots mix ranks with flying aces, mercenary guns-for-hire brawl with secretive corporate agents, and relativistic paladins cross thermal lances with causality-breaking, unknowable beings.