Really enjoyed this post and it resonated with me. Avatar Legends is my 'Lancer'! I really want to play it because I love the show but I'm not as confident running PbtA and the balance mechanic adds an extra element. It just seems like a lot to tackle.
i think it's also in-part a community issue. one, more broader around GM expectations and unpaid labour but mostly it's two, Lancer has a toxic community. a lot of folks just care about the combat and the mech frankensteining you get to at LL6 and nothing else. playing online in a lot of crunchy systems you get these sorts of folks, I have with GURPs in particular, who have one set of the game they focus on and powergame and if you don't set them up for that they either quit or get frustrated.
A bit late, but I feel that in my soul. You have no idea how many times I've tried to start a game in a new setting with my group, they don't read even a little on the setting and they get angry when they can't make demigods in character creation or when I tell them they need to do character creation in order. I also find myself not confident to try GMing in any of those settings for randos because so many people know them so deeply when I'm still fumbling and figuring out all of the details, so it feels like any slip up will get dog piled on.
Really enjoyed this post and it resonated with me. Avatar Legends is my 'Lancer'! I really want to play it because I love the show but I'm not as confident running PbtA and the balance mechanic adds an extra element. It just seems like a lot to tackle.
i think it's also in-part a community issue. one, more broader around GM expectations and unpaid labour but mostly it's two, Lancer has a toxic community. a lot of folks just care about the combat and the mech frankensteining you get to at LL6 and nothing else. playing online in a lot of crunchy systems you get these sorts of folks, I have with GURPs in particular, who have one set of the game they focus on and powergame and if you don't set them up for that they either quit or get frustrated.
A bit late, but I feel that in my soul. You have no idea how many times I've tried to start a game in a new setting with my group, they don't read even a little on the setting and they get angry when they can't make demigods in character creation or when I tell them they need to do character creation in order. I also find myself not confident to try GMing in any of those settings for randos because so many people know them so deeply when I'm still fumbling and figuring out all of the details, so it feels like any slip up will get dog piled on.