I keep seeing people going "I don't play softy uwu rules light TTRPGs like a weenie, I play Lancer", and it's like, seeing someone bragging they drink white claws to flex on someone who asked for something with no alcohol in it
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I do not get the thought pattern at all. Crunchy and fluffy systems do different things. It's like comparing marshmallows to peanut brittle.
This is so weird for me to hear because if anything I used to see Lancer criticized by "hardcore" gamer for how it actually has a split of supposedly crunchy combat AND use lighter mechanics directly inspired by Powered by the Apocalypse/Forged in the Dark games(and especially moreso with the Bonds systems introduced in later supplement) for the narrative half of the game when players are out of the mechs.
With the hardcore players sentiment being specifically expressed like "You're not gonna get 5E players to give a look at your uwu rules light RPGs by bundling their mechanics alongside a crunchy tactical game; the uwu light RPG players are just gonna stick with their rules light RPGs and the crunchy tactical gamers are just gonna stick with their REAL games like DnD and Pathfinder".
So if there's Lancer purists out there dissing RPGs for not being crunchy enough.... gosh, what a lack self-perception when they're playing a game that probably wouldn't exist as it is if not for it's adoption of rules light concept for an entire half of the whole game.
Yeah, and even Lancer's combat isn't particularly heavy on rules either.
Especially for a mech game, like compare it to Mekton Zeta or Battletech :V
Yeah!
Like I like mecha but wasn't really into the genre before Lancer so if anything the main draw for me was that it'd been like... a decade since I last had played any TTRPG and felt rusty as heck, but Lancer's brand of mixing tactical "crunchy" combat(that still felt roughly approachable?) with much looser mechanics for narrative play(and a mission module structure that encouraged having entire segment being exclusively narrative, as seen with the Downtime segments) felt like it might have(and thus far has) been a decent gateway for me to get back into TTRPGs?
And if anything, playing it has made me less interested in DnD/Pathfinder style games for the future but specifically more interested into the lighter style of games a lot of grognard-style folks seem to like looking down upon?