Lancer Cheat Sheet

A quick reference sheet for the Lancer TTRPG

Status effects

Hidden

• Cannot be targeted by hostile attacks
• Don't cause engagement
• Gained by hiding while not engaged and (at least one of):
  • Invisible
  • Out of line-of-sight
  • Obscured by hard cover
  • Completely inside soft cover
• Lost on:
  • Attack
  • Force save
  • Reaction
  • Boost
  • Lost cover
  • Hostile search action

Invisible

• 50% chance for hostile attacks to miss
• Can hide even without cover

Prone

• Hostile attacks receive +1 accuracy
• Slowed
• Count as moving in difficult terrain
• Lost by using a standard move (unless immobilized)

Shut down

• All heat is cleared
• Exposed is cleared
• Cascading NHPs are stabilised
• Statuses and conditions from tech actions are cleared
• Immune to tech actions
• Stunned

Immobilized

• Cannot make voluntary movements

Cover

Soft cover

• +1 difficulty to ranged attacks
• Granted by (for example):
  • Smoke
  • Foliage
  • Dust clouds
  • Low hills
  • Low walls
  • Small hard cover
  • Non-adjacent hard cover

Hard cover

• +2 difficulty to ranged attacks
• Must be adjacent to source of cover
• Must be same size or smaller than source of cover
• Granted by (for example):
  • Tall walls
  • Bulkheads
  • Reinforced emplacements
  • Destroyed mechs & vehicles