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A jam submission

MFECANE FIELD GUIDE (NARRATIVE AND DATA FOR COMP/CON)View project page

A Field Guide to Mfecane is the full release of the homebrew supplement for the Lancer RPG.
Submitted by NHP SHAKA (@StationUkuwa) — 54 days, 5 hours before the deadline
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Imma black dude, from Georiga, living and working in Minneapolis as a Transportation Planner. A forever GM of TTRPGs i mainly play Lancer RPG.

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Host(+1)

Thank you for this! Some brief feedback, fwiw:

This is pretty incredible -- I haven’t read every single page, and also I hadn’t come across Lancer before (I’m glad I have now!) --but I can see it’s an incredibly rich and thoughtful and beguiling world you have imagined.

I like how it opens, and I like how it is often written from a relatively deep ‘in-world’ perspective, so it feels like communications which might really exist in the reality you’re conjuring up. But at the same time … I kind of missed a couple of simple, very straightforward introductory paragraphs, to clearly curate what this is, and give your reader a sense of how to orient themselves? If you decided to do this, it could also double as a pitch to hook readers who aren’t familiar with Lancer. You know, like, “Lancer is a tabletop RPG of optimistic space opera, where players take the role of elite mecha pilots. The Field Guide to Mfecane is an Africanfuturist homebrew supplement” etc.

Typo I think? “Unions DOJ/HR agents” should be “Union’s DOJ/HR agents”?

Idk if this might be (a) totally obvious or (b) totally irrelevant, but aspects of this supplement remind me of Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels, i.e. trying to make sense of a benign post-scarcity utopia that is also expansionist and actually kind of militaristic. On a bit more of a tangent, it also reminded me a bit of Vicky Osterweil’s In Defence of Looting, which is a non-fiction exploration of violence and positive social change.

Thank you again for sharing!!

Developer(+1)

Yo thanks for the high praise. I've read neither of the books you mention, but I am familiar with the Culture series and I do find them very much in line with Lancer (other than the bits about the Culture try'n to 'civilize' everyone).

Also, you bring up some good points. Your note about an introdcutory exposition is well put, and I'm glad to say that I'm in the midst of finishing up a massive update to the layout, text, and some game mechanics. Just putting some professional touches on the field guide. The end product will have what you and others point out is missing in terms of table setting and the like. 

I'm happy you've enjoyed reading it the guide so far. But I'd be remiss if I didn't offer you the chance to jump into one of my games! I run them like once a week. Feel free to message me and i'll send you an invite!

-hope to see you around!