Iphigenia at Midnight

The Iphigenia at Midnight Kickstarter has been successfully funded! Purchases on this page represent pre-orders of the finished book, and also grant access to previous draft material until the final release.

The Kickstarter page, which covers our plan, has initial updates, and gives more information on our team for the full book, can be found here.

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It is thirty seconds to midnight.

You and a few allies are all that stand between the genocidal ambitions of a long-lost fleet and billions of lives. Against you in this task is arrayed all the might and fury of a star-spanning empire dead for five centuries, under the absolute control of Lady Iphigenia, the Queen of Crows; multiple capital ships and tens of thousands of mechanized chassis and troops, unflinching in their goal and unwilling to accept surrender. You are outnumbered, outgunned, and without reinforcements or time -

But you are not outmatched.

Across three fast-paced, action-packed missions ranging from contested warship boarding in the void of space to dueling tanks on a rocket-powered train, Iphigenia at Midnight recounts the story of the Choral Coalition: A hastily-assembled group of disparate soldiers, mercenaries, drifters, peacekeepers, and revolutionaries fighting to prevent the specter of a war five hundred years past from consuming all life in the Choral system. Player characters will see their bonds as a unit tested as they delve into the Hell of war or form common cause around taking the fight to Lady Iphigenia with fellow fighters from different backgrounds, progressing from a narrative prologue in a city under siege to a climactic final battle in the stars above with entire worlds weighing in the balance.

This module includes...

For GMs,

• Three thrilling missions to take players from License Levels 6 to 9 over the course of eleven combat scenes, including prewritten and playtested opposing forces of NPCs and tactical advice for running each fight
• Three new NPCs: The tactical reactor technician and Heat-based controller Morozko, the brutal biochemical artillery chassis Clademaster, and setpiece boss Iphigenia herself
• New rules for enclosed environments to represent the tight confines of a boarding engagement, including ceilings, walls, and openable doors
• An expansion for narrative play in Lancer to allow more focused narrative / on-foot combat, taking inspiration from Massif Press's ICON, including two example "hardsuit combats" in the module itself
• Substantial narrative material ranging from discussions of the module antagonists' history and motivation, to unique side missions and pre-combat content for PCs, to dissections of the Second Committee's poisonous ideology
• Multiple narrative hooks and backgrounds for players to create characters already involved with the overarching conflict of the module
• Details on the Choral Worlds' rich history, from their founding as a colonial satrapy to the modern day
• Optional rules for high-mortality play
• Tracklists and reading guides to emphasize the themes and atmosphere of the module

For players,

• The IPS-N Mitscher license, featuring both the titular Mitscher - a heavily armored, heavily armed jet-powered flying gunship that punishes its enemies with rolling barrages of munitions - and its alternate frame Steichen - a reconnaissance aircraft which singles out foes for surveillance and elimination
• The SSC Swordgrass license, a vampiric duelist designed for deniable-operations agents, with a unique precognitive neural sync which allows it to dodge blows before they even begin
• The HORUS Spectre license, a monument to the revolutionary Interstellar Solidarity Brigades which fearlessly takes damage in place of its allies and holds its ground even against overwhelming odds
• The HA Haber license, an unvarnished relic of the Second Committee's biochemical weapons program which utilizes ancient TBK munitions to control the battlefield and destroy its opponents
• Four new Reserves of ingenuity and battlefield salvage, whether paracausal artifacts or artillery shells
• Eight new pieces of Exotic Gear, ranging from superheavy anti-chassis rifles to supply drop beacons

Compatible with COMP/CON

Iphigenia at Midnight is fully compatible with COMP/CON for all game components - NPCs, player licenses, Reserves, and Exotic Gear - and through that, popular virtual tabletop tools such as Foundry. The player-side .lcp and the licenses .pdf are and will remain free to everyone.

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Iphigenia at Midnight is not an official Lancer product; it is a third-party work, and is not affiliated with Massif Press. Iphigenia at Midnight is published via the Lancer Third Party License. Lancer is copyright Massif Press.