My penultimate build for the #CharacterCreationChallenge is Yasir Min Abel, a spaceborn weapons specialist from the Sci-Fi RPG Lancer.

Yasir was born and raised on a military space station to career military parents. That meant growing up around the various ships, mechs, and pilots that served to develope his own career path.

A late-bloomer, he would sneak into areas that were technically off-limits just to see how things worked and what the latest tech was all about. Even once he grew into his adult body, he had a knack for remaining unseen, always on alert for the detector-bots that roamed the hallways.

Now a licensed mech pilot, Yasir is part of a team heading to a remote mining colony to suppress some criminal uprising that threatens a critical supply chain to the Union’s medical industry.

Lancer

Building a character in Lancer is not the easiest task. There’s both your pilot to consider and his or her associated mech. I did not grow up watching Transformers or whatever other media made this genre possible, so getting into the Lancer mindset was a challenge.

Fortunately, the Lancer authors have developed (or at least support) an online builder. I played with it a bit to make sure I didn’t make any glaring errors, but tried to use the book as written for the challenge.

I did have to jump around quite a bit to find how to generate or determine some of my stats, and the character sheet provided lacked context in certain areas. Particularly for author-provided sheets, I really wish an example, completed sheet were included with the rules to use as a guide.

As with other RPGs I have sampled for this challenge, Lancer is probably not one I would bring to the table. But, if there were a table looking for a player, I’d certainly give it a try and really focus on learning it. I’d pretty much try anything at least once.