The mech tabletop RPG Lancer has 2 new hardcovers on the way. Dark Horse Books reminded fans yesterday that Operation Fulcrum Dawn: Introductory Narrative Modules for Lancer and Lancer: Setting Guide Volume 1 arrive next March, bringing The Karrakin Trade Baronies and The Long Rim into print for the first time. Check out the official post down below:
Both books are made with Massif Press, the publisher behind Lancer. They are written by Kai Rave and based on the game created by Tom Bloom and Miguel Lopez, with art by E.M. Fields, Peyton Gee, Juan Gee Tan, Gwen Williamson and Theotime Galmiche. The modules also feature design by Dunya Kat and artwork by Conner Dodd.
Operation Fulcrum Dawn
Operation Fulcrum Dawn arrives first, on March 16, 2027, as a 128-page, 8.5x11-inch hardcover priced at $29.99. It is built to introduce new players and game masters to Lancer's mix of tactical combat and narrative challenges, and it pairs with the core rulebook. The book holds 12 combat scenes, 6 in each module, along with printed battle and tactical maps, tactical advice for new GMs and player options for mechs, weapons and equipment.
Operation Solstice Rain takes characters from License Level 0 to License Level 2 across 2 missions of urban combat in the city of Nov Elysia. The players are a squad of rookie Union mech pilots on a rescue operation in the middle of a growing conflict between the Leandric States Alliance and the Vestan Sovereignty.
Operation Winter Scar continues the campaign up to License Level 4 across 2 more missions. The now-seasoned pilots take on the Vestan Sovereignty Armed Forces, which throw everything from advanced combat chassis to main battle tanks at them.
Lancer: Setting Guide Volume 1
The Setting Guide follows on March 30, 2027, as a 224-page, 8.5x11-inch hardcover, also for $29.99. It collects 2 setting expansions that add systems for generating maps and characters, plus more rules and mechs.
The Karrakin Trade Baronies is the oldest human civilization in Union space, a place of deep tradition and legend that has become a center of political intrigue and social division. Its great engine of industry is grinding to a halt, and a rising tide of Republicanism threatens to shake the Baronies to its core.
The Long Rim is a lawless sector of Union space, home to corrupt, self-serving Enterprises, pirate outfits that prey on unprotected ships and groups ranging from the HORUS cells to the clandestine Horizon Collective. Dark Horse says players cannot change the Rim on their own, but they can make their mark as either a scoundrel or a paragon.
The Lancer Core Rulebook
Lancer first came from Massif Press in 2019. Dark Horse launched its hardcover edition of the Lancer Tabletop Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook in June 2024, and that book is already in its 6th printing. The 8.5x11-inch rulebook sells for $59.99, and Dark Horse notes that every choice, ordnance and weapon in it comes with lore attached.
Massif Press sells the original cover editions of both books, and the Dark Horse editions are listed for pre-order at Dark Horse Direct, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and local bookstores and comic shops, with Find Your Comic Store and Bookshop.org listing nearby retailers.
In other tabletop news, LionWing is bringing the official Touhou tabletop RPG to English next year, and Dark Horse recently released The Witcher Volume 11: Blood Stone.
Will your Lancer group start fresh with Operation Solstice Rain, or head straight into the politics of the Karrakin Trade Baronies?
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