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Blood Money is a new third party GM guidebook for Massif Press' hit TTRPG, Lancer. This book offers an alternative mission structure ruleset that better encapsulates the mercenary power fantasy, allowing your players to pick the jobs they want to do, guide the story in the direction they want it to go, and make the kind of money that can set a lowly merc up for life--or die trying.

Included are several features to enhance your campaign and supplement the narrative rules already present in Lancer's core ruleset:

  • Complete overhaul of how missions are structured, introducing a new "Job Board" style format.
  • A full economic system that synergizes with the new format. The harder the job, the higher the paycheck... and risk!
  • A total of 100 all new combat-centric reserves, each with their own price tag, organized in a revolving shop that your players can visit during downtime.
  • 50 new pieces of pilot gear, including specialized weapons and armor with unique abilities!
  • An all new base-building system that allows your players to spend their hard-earned money on new facilities and their upgrades.
  • A new large scale battle game mode that allows your mercenary party to take the fight to the front lines with a whole army! Easy to pick up and run in any campaign.
  • A detailed guide on how to build your setting and the factions that live in it, as well as how to structure narrative play to work in the new format in general.

If you've ever wanted run a campaign where players take on the role of cigar-chomping space cowboys, from infamous ne'er do wells to heart-of-gold rascals, then Blood Money is the comprehensive book to teach you how to do it. Even if that kind of campaign isn't on your plate, the general tools and advice contained within are invaluable to any GM, both new and experienced!

Updated 1 day ago
Published 3 days ago
StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Authorpigsriot
Tagsgm-toolkit, lancer, Mechs, mercenary, No AI, powered-by-lancer, Tactical RPG

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Blood Money v1.02.pdf 11 MB
blood-money-pilot-gear_1.0.lcp 50 kB

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(+3)

Just read this front the back, absolutely superb all the way down. Setting aside how wonderfully solid this is mechanically for a second, pigsriot has given the greatest gift any reader can ask for - *well paced examples*.

The flow of [high level concept > basic example > in depth explaination > in depth example] made understanding how this is all meant to fit together astonishingly easy.

Incredible stuff all the way down!

(+2)

Thank you so much for the review! It's not often that I'm described as coherent so that is very nice to hear

(+2)

I have got to budget for this when I'm not paying bills. This looks amazing, and if Valkyrion gives it a thumbs up, I gots to have it.

(+1)

thank you!!! i very much hope that youll enjoy it!

(1 edit) (+6)

One of the first published materials to truly deep dive into alternate interpretations of the Lancer mission formula. It does one of the most important things a TTRPG framework can do: Provide examples of the framework in use.

I’ve followed along with the author’s game using this framework for months, and have been continuously impressed with how it expands player agency to the macro scale of a campaign. This is the stuff the Long Rim manna system wishes it could’ve been.

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insanely high praise from the master hacker himself! thank you so much for the kind words, my friend