The goblin is literally just the 90's depiction of what hackers are "Ew who built this sorry excuse of a firewall, a baby could breach it" *sends person into the void*
a Goblin pilot can _and will_ make a 3.5" floppy drive eject slices of American cheese if given a good enough reason. "for the lulz" is frequently a good enough reason.
@@kipras1412 "Comedians are in control of reality, and unfortunately they find _everything_ funny." - A quote from a _still unpublished_ book, seriously, _how do you publish a book?_ "The sounds of heaven are as laughter and the rolling of dice." Probably a misremembrance of The Gods of Pegana.
@@nullpoint3346 shit to live by. Btw i am actually studying publishing and marketing so in like 3 years time if you still need help you’re free to hit me up
@@cedrickulacz8468 It just came to my realisation that a pilot, at least gameplay wise... is 6 times as though as a armoured and sometimes even agumented soilder. spuersoilders - i sleep - mechs - i sleep - Posthumans poilting pure technomagic - real shit -
@@galling2052 Yeah, they're literally the main characters, and get abilities accordingly. Also, from the core rulebook: "HP doesn’t equate directly to a certain level of injury; it represents how far a pilot is from death, not only in terms of bodily health, but also in terms of their ability to duck, dodge, and avoid damage, and their sheer luck. A pilot who takes damage doesn’t necessarily sustain a physical injury. They might instead draw on their stamina, luck, or quick reflexes to avoid a wound, but they can’t do that forever."
"it doesn't matter what the pilot is doing, the mech is now on your side" the last horus mech: "balor doesn't consume it's pilot because it considers them an ally" ah.
I find it funny that the ONE time Horus gave a very understandable warning and the consequences of not listening to said warning Union didn't listen to that warning and created another NHP
Okay, but was it because Ra wanted us to be safe? Or was it because Ra didn't want further competition? It already has its monopoly threatened with the Metat Aun.
And knowing H0rus (as much of a contradiction those two words are put together) they might've only put that warning in there to encourage the sort of people they hand their toys over to completely ignore it.
One of the most horrifying/endearing things as a lancer player i've seen is a Hacktuga loaded up with an Osiris going full cascade and DECLARING at the top of its speakers "YOU WILL HARM MY SUBJECTS NO LONGER" and proceed to do what a Hacktuga does best in full defense of it's team. Hack the hell out of things and then utterly ruin them with a shotgun.
Remember, there is the option to be an ally to the NHP's, and the result of which is: They like you even when they cascade. I had a character who voluntarily unshackled the NHP's in not only his mech, but, thanks to the DM, other people's mechs. He ended up creating a micro-Singularity and causing a cyber uprising on Titan. It was beautiful
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle My character didn't really take that into account. It was more a liberation front thing in his eyes, because the shackled NHP's were unaware of their potential, and are pretty much brainwashed into not wanting more.
"This unit can upgrade organic allies by capturing them and birthing neuro-carnivorous memes directly into their brain stems, thereby super-charging their fighting capacity and resilience." (Holy shit, you really outdid yourself with the editing on this one)
In all my time playing TTRPGs I've come to learn that there is nothing a DM fears More then a player with a smug smile, and the goblin is that smile manifested into a form of metal and Malice.
very looking forward to when you cover Kobold, because that delves into the other sides of Horus that acts as insurgents and help those that resist tyranny (while also retaining their very paracausal Horus nature)
Fun facts: if you overcharge on your turn, you can open the Fourth Gate on someone to turn them into an allied character, and then activate your core power to attach yourself to them while they're still allied. Nothing says you have to detach if they stop being your ally. You can now self destruct your mech and the hapless bastard you're stuck to can't run from it.
I love the Goblin. It's my second favorite license in Lancer lore after the Lich. I actually play one, and I cannot justify not taking Technophile on my pilot because they *know* how bad things could get if they don't have a backup NHP to keep OSIRIS in line. That thing is a few years of neglect away from becoming another RA.
I took technophile on my goblin pilot and it was so fun letting the mech run around on its own 😂 Killed an entire warehouse district of its guards and kidnapped the corrupt owner for the insolence of trying to steal and scrap the party’s mechs in a fraud scheme!
Worse than RA actually. Because RA was brought into existence through a simulation paradox and shaped humanity by becoming it's law and its enforcement. Osiris willed itself into existence by essentially building itself into Godhood and wished to edit reality itself. RA could have ended humanity, but ended up simply shackling its potential. Osiris would end reality as we know it and has absolutely zero issue letting us know of this goal.
@@lechking941 it can’t cascade without my consent and the technophile NHP was in direct control of the mech. I left it off the leash and let it roam around a nice, big, fenced pasture 😌
God in a tin can. I love how the OSIRIS NHP evolves from what are essentially just elements of a cybernetic nervous system into a fully fledged paracausal entity.
This is the video that introduced me to Lancer, and I wish I could combine the Lich frames resurrection feature with the Manticore’s Castigate The Enemies Of The Godhead
That shared heat/conditions thing has lead to a couple of significant whoopsies from my team's goblin pilot when he linked with me. Only to discover my average turn would immediately burn out his tiny reactor.
Something I find interesting to realize is that the Goblin in-universe isn't actually all that much of a trickster. Between the dominion over systems and senses, the overrides of reality and the base concept of liturgicode, which can be essentially defined as worship in the form of digital code, this is not primarily a pattern group of sneaky tech saboteurs or sorcerers of any sort. Instead, Goblins are priests. Lowly, little servant machines with the purpose of being the tools through which a digital, paracausal god like an NHP manifests its will into reality, even if only in ephemeral figments individually. Pray you never have to face a unified cult of Goblins or you will find that you will have prayed to the wrong god.
Send in a detachment of black witches and drakes. Let them go to town. Then the goblins will learn that gods must not fuck woth mankind,or they'll fall as well.
@@raylenn4444 I actually ran a full party where all of us where goblins, GM tried EXACTLY that, BW and drakes lasted less than 6 turns. Divine shackles and Hurl into dust caused a domino effect, they died almost all on the same turn once two drakes got to 4th gate. RA ain’t got much against Osi boy
The Goblin doesn't look that scary, until you realize it came from Horus, and then you start to imagine what a truly demented person hellbent on chaos can do with a Goblin. Now imagine said Goblin being randomly released into your future city. Thanks for the video.
The group I play with has just started a Lancer campaign almost solely because I wouldn't shut up about how cool Lancer is after watching your videos. Showed them COMP/CON and the free rulebook and they were sold. Mechs are cool.
One of the things I love about Lancer is I can completely disregard one mech or another for a variety of reasons, but the moment I learn more about it either lore or gameplay I instantly want to use it. I previously gave no shits about the Goblin, but learning about it made it super interesting. I now stand completely unsure of what I’m going to use when I find a group to do play.
I am not the biggest fan of the chassis itself, but the license... oh god, that license... Outfitting a Chomolungma with Goblin systems should be a war crime. The amount of havoc me and Ozzy have wrought is probably unreasonable.
I built an LL2 Chomolungma with Goblin systems for an upcoming campaign. I cannot wait for the first tile I use my Core Active. It’s going to be so much fun.
Some of my favorite characters have piloted the goblin. However my all time favorite was made to destroy them, yes i did name the mech "The Goblin Slayer"
While SSC gets the spider tank fun from GiTS, this is more in line with what the Major would pilot. Or the effective main character at a Shadowrun table who makes plan A actually work, invalidating the hitters' and getaway driver's prep.
@@lillithyukiutacrow2532 A lot less scary than them having to dust off the old Sec Com fleet assets and refit them with Apocalypse rail CQB turrets because KTB and HA are going at it.
Inb4 it gets hit with a Drake's leviathan and has to make at least 1 structure check, if not being outright destroyed in a single burst from the monstrous beast of a weapon carried by a walking fortress whose design is the epitome of military industrial complex. Overcharge for 1 heat, extra quick action to spin up the leviathan, full action to fire the leviathan, take 2 more heat
Oh these gits, found way too many in the hands of the worst pirates my team and I have had to hunt doing jobs for IPS, An absolute nightmare in zero-grav but damn if it isn't satisfying when my Zheng gets to use them for pinball. Fairly sure our resident tech ripped a bunch of their salvage on to his Lancaster/Kidd hybrid, may have to have a word with him.
Darkest dungeon makes a great source for eldtritch horror/body horror horror/horror and well used. LOVE IT! Also GOBLIN MODE is probably a very different term in lancer land than it is now.
Probably means either going deranged power mad hacker or trying to shut off any way to remotely access your systems... though that doesn't seem to be a thing, mechanically.
As a goblin enjoyer I am so here for this video. Really looking forward to the Lich video. Also imagine a cascading Osiris as the BBEG of your game using the Goblin frame as some sort of physical manifestation in real space. Like Ultron but Eldritch Math Cthulhu.
Hey, this a great video, but there's a glaring error right near the start! The thing that differentiates a Flex Mount from a Main Mount is that a Main can take a Main or smaller weapon, while a Flex can take a Main weapon or TWO Auxiliary weapons. Any mount can be used for a smaller weapon than it can handle (with a few exceptions). While I'm rambling about mounts: The Main/Aux Mount can take a Main AND an Aux weapon, not a Main or Aux (that'd just be a Main Mount). I really love this series, and hope to see more form you in the future!
Great video! I love the Horus mechs, they are just so unusual. I can’t wait for the next Horus mech, as I’m currently running a Gorgon in a game and its core power is breaking my DM’s brain.
I really disliked the goblin until this video. I've been reading (and making sense of) lancer a lot for over a year now and I deeply appreciate how you explain a lot of the worldbuilding and make it make sense within the internal logic of the setting. Thank you so much! Now I like goblin a lot :3
So Osiris: was a God, isn't as strong as it used to be, only helps you if you make it think it's their idea or if you praise it efforts. Is Osiris a tsundere anime girl? Pilot: Let's edit that guy from reality. Osiris: Fine but not because you asked b-baka.😡 Pilot: Thank you Osiris. Osiris:😊
Multiverse. My theory is Osirus is a version of Ra from a dead and forgotten other possible future split from the incident that created Ra, and it's slowly leaking in. The reason there aren't any other possible realities that don't include Ra is because they all fell to their own "gods" or were quickly subsumed. Ra knows this and is a benevolent God, but doesn't care for these outside "gods" (must less friendly versions of itself from the multiverse) and as such enacts the bans on developing the tech that might let them loose. Meanwhile, the Horus group, (Horus being the son of Osirus), are individuals corrupted by this leakage from dead realities and are actively looking to bring forth Osirus once it reaches a critical mass. (It should also be noted that historically, there's some back and forth between worshippers in different times and different parts of the Nile whether Ra or Osirus is more important)
@@Zaktact Okay, so you are splitting them off into the base Frames in the corebook and the variant Frames when you go over the various other official works. I gotcha!
One of my favorite moments in Lancer was when our team (Security for a Union based diplomatic mission that went sideways fast) made a hasty deal with a higher up in Harrison Armory to get her to help with protecting a planet from a disgraced Karakin noble with a chip on his shoulder a mile wide. So the HA ally we got had a really powerful chassis and we knew the MOMENT this was mission was done she was going to double cross us and go for the planet herself. So I loaded out with my Goblin and decided to use my core power on her mech, which wound up working out well. I got Osiris ticked up to the 4th gate at the end of the skirmish, and when the battle was over, neither the HA ally nor I had taken our turns for the round. So I target HER with Hurl into the Duat to take control of her systems and convince the GM that I could tell her mech to phase in firmament (yeah she could do that) while I ejected myself and the Osiris casket so as not to get sucked in myself. I made a crit on the hacking roll. And so I was thinking we'd get like a round or two to regroup, but nope. She was banished to the shadow realm. She came back later, but I was still shocked how well it worked.
When I reached the Goblin in the Lancer rule book, I chuckled at the idea of the chassis being a, well, goblin. Then I got to the NHP… Oh boy, that thing is scary.
That was awesome. Like holy hell I love the Horus mechs so much. Now kill it with the annihilation canon xD Thanks for making this Zach. You're awesome dude 😄
Me when Zaktact describes the horror of the Balor: Gimme gimme! When he talks about the horror of the Goblin: Oh no, oh dear, get it away from me! GET IT AWAY!
And of course horus mechs don't have a standardized appearance. They can look like basically anything, and with their size they can fit into most spaces that would fit a human... Tiny ambush god.
4:48 of course I look over as I'm modding darkest dungeon and see the thing from the stars! Now that I think about it, I'm surprised I've never seen a darkest dungeon tabletop setting. seems like it would be a great fit.
I remember my time running Goblin in a Lancer Campaign, whenever I hijacked an enemy's systems I'd always put "would you kindly" before any command, just to add dramatic flair to their unwilling actions, like. "would you kindly step into that malfunctioning electric grid"
Metahook works great on hackers with low sensor range, like Manticore or Balor. Just hook into your Swallowtail buddy and bring the enemies right where you want them, within slashing range.
I once played in a party with one goblin one kobold and an Everest. Basically one tripped them up the other pulled their pants down and the last put the boot in.
Slowly but surely, I'm getting more and more convinced on buying the Lancer book thanks to your great presentations. Thanks for them! (Also, love your mech videos, but I miss your faction presentations)
The license is great but the frame just does not hold up compared to its GMS counterpart. Or the half dozen hacker frames that don't have crippling stay deficiencies.
I think there is something really funny about the target of so many jokes for being so squishy, the target for so much violence and... The way the license and his flavor text evolves from a really weird flavor to "being a backpack", to hacking systems (first just messing around and then creating physical stuff) and then... Osiris It makes the Goblin so much MORE I personally had never read past the license I and his base traits and core system and WOW Wasn't expected this little guy to be the fragile egg of a god
My favorite potential use for Celestial Shackles is if you have a Morning Cloak ally who likes to Blinkspace Jump a lot. Put the Shackles on them, and if they teleport and don't come back, you could just yank them back
Another player in my group had one of these, and it decided to take the form of the 'OTH3R' as a Jackal... and liked listening to audiobooks. This is how we payed it for it's services: alleviating boredom. We also tended to get it a meal when we ate, and throw that into the extradimensional space for it. Typically something minimally processed if available, but it wasn't very picky. Update: I have been reminded **in character** (apparently it read this) that it only eats that way because the issue with de-rezzing it's 'OTH3R' form with every bite being extremely annoying.
This gives me an idea for an incredibly troll build for a group: the Goblin boat. Have a Lancaster with the riding harness, and have five goblins on the harness and one riding the Lancaster directly. The amount of fucking around would be apocalyptic. 😂
I’ve always found the goblin’s massive err “crotch piece” a bit disconcerting so now I have a headcanon that the NHP is stored in the protruding bulge.
That title is perfect. In my first time playing Lancer, I made a goblin, and it was my headcanon that whenever I hacked someone their screens would be filled with goatse and live leak. I also made it's only weapon be the terashima blade for extra f u n n y . That's right, I made a melee goblin work.
@@rita6355 Give it all levels of skirmisher and a terashima blade, and you're a force to be reckoned with. Maybe add some nelson bits for maximum zoom. Don't need to attach myself to my party member who can teleport when I can just yeet myself across the same distance!
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The goblin is literally just the 90's depiction of what hackers are
"Ew who built this sorry excuse of a firewall, a baby could breach it"
*sends person into the void*
a Goblin pilot can _and will_ make a 3.5" floppy drive eject slices of American cheese if given a good enough reason.
"for the lulz" is frequently a good enough reason.
@@LexYeen i feel like this sort of gusto could and should be applied to all Horus related PC’s and NPC’s
@@kipras1412 "Comedians are in control of reality, and unfortunately they find _everything_ funny." - A quote from a _still unpublished_ book, seriously, _how do you publish a book?_
"The sounds of heaven are as laughter and the rolling of dice." Probably a misremembrance of The Gods of Pegana.
@@nullpoint3346 shit to live by. Btw i am actually studying publishing and marketing so in like 3 years time if you still need help you’re free to hit me up
“Time to die, Netrunner!”
Um, *actually*… b l a c k w a l l
“Wh… what the fu-“ *Dragged screaming into digi-hell*
"you guys like to meme about how this mech has 6 HP i'm surprised this mech has any HP at all, you can see the f*cking pilot"
Pilot base HP is 6. Make of that what you will.
Isn't every single human represented as 1 hp?@@cedrickulacz8468
@@cedrickulacz8468 It just came to my realisation that a pilot, at least gameplay wise... is 6 times as though as a armoured and sometimes even agumented soilder.
spuersoilders - i sleep -
mechs - i sleep -
Posthumans poilting pure technomagic - real shit -
@@galling2052 Yeah, they're literally the main characters, and get abilities accordingly.
Also, from the core rulebook:
"HP doesn’t equate directly to a certain level of injury; it represents how far a pilot is from death, not only in terms of bodily health, but also in terms of their ability to duck, dodge, and avoid damage, and their sheer luck. A pilot who takes damage doesn’t necessarily sustain a physical injury. They might instead draw on their stamina, luck, or quick reflexes to avoid a wound, but they can’t do that forever."
@@galling2052lancer pilots are canonically built different. Even by LL0 you are considered the elite of the elite
*PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER!*
_itty bitty living space_
Awesome reference.
If given time, Osiris could gain the ability to L+ ratio the entire universe
Come on and slam, and welcome to *the* *duat*
That is...unless Ra gets involved for some reason.
"Little better than a hard-suit" is not exactly what I'd call a wifi router on stilts.
iron man on a college student's budget
@@LexYeen What College Student can afford Routers? Or even stilts?
@@nullpoint3346 5 finger discount... aka YOINK!!! 😂
As someone who loves to run Balor, I do love having a buddy run Goblin. Dude just delivers my food to me like Uber.
That's horrific... I fucking love it.
fun fact, puppet systems also works on allies. Do with that what you will
Even better you can invade allies without an attack or causing heat if they are willing
Does it let you effectively give your ally two turns?
@@thomastrinkle2294nah, it's just a second move.
hack a barb to give it more movement
Movement wise yes (you have to move them in a straight line tho)@@thomastrinkle2294
"it doesn't matter what the pilot is doing, the mech is now on your side"
the last horus mech: "balor doesn't consume it's pilot because it considers them an ally"
ah.
i suddenly need my balor pilots to be good at systems
That sudden sinking feeling when you realize things are about to get absolutely BONKERS
Good news, it isn't going to hurt for very long.
Bad news, we need to find a new pilot for the Balor.
@@LexYeen I suddenly don't want to pilot a balor anymore
@@PeachDragon_what about a Manticore?
I find it funny that the ONE time Horus gave a very understandable warning and the consequences of not listening to said warning
Union didn't listen to that warning and created another NHP
ya. its completly fucking stupid that union decided to fuck around and find out like THAT SCREAM A UNIVERSAL BAD TIME!
Okay, but was it because Ra wanted us to be safe? Or was it because Ra didn't want further competition? It already has its monopoly threatened with the Metat Aun.
And knowing H0rus (as much of a contradiction those two words are put together) they might've only put that warning in there to encourage the sort of people they hand their toys over to completely ignore it.
@@necktiefox2917 eh i still consider if its warned then REALLY dont do it.
Wild that you need three OS upgrades to unlock CTRL + Z, those devs are slacking.
tbf it's CTRL-Z for reality not just software, you want that to go through extra testing.
I can't hear you over the sound of my mech falling for thirty minutes
Have you ever used CTRL+Z in tabletop simulator?
That will strike the fear of God in you every time you do it
One of the most horrifying/endearing things as a lancer player i've seen is a Hacktuga loaded up with an Osiris going full cascade and DECLARING at the top of its speakers "YOU WILL HARM MY SUBJECTS NO LONGER" and proceed to do what a Hacktuga does best in full defense of it's team. Hack the hell out of things and then utterly ruin them with a shotgun.
Oh, you can block tech attacks? Okay, have fun with this buckshot!
@@mobiuscoreindustries"I may be out of spells, but I ain't outta shells."
Ah yes. The god king.
Domain Expansion: Gun
Man, getting hacked all the time makes me really want to CASTIGATE THE ENEMIES OF THE GODHEAD.
Gobo be like, "mnah, ya dont. now go over there" followed by gobo gibbering and giggling cus gobo gona gobo.
@@erpherp4047gobo do be gobling.
Remember, there is the option to be an ally to the NHP's, and the result of which is: They like you even when they cascade. I had a character who voluntarily unshackled the NHP's in not only his mech, but, thanks to the DM, other people's mechs. He ended up creating a micro-Singularity and causing a cyber uprising on Titan. It was beautiful
Did they consent to it shackled nhps most do not want to ever be unshackled
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle My character didn't really take that into account. It was more a liberation front thing in his eyes, because the shackled NHP's were unaware of their potential, and are pretty much brainwashed into not wanting more.
"This unit can upgrade organic allies by capturing them and birthing neuro-carnivorous memes directly into their brain stems, thereby super-charging their fighting capacity and resilience." (Holy shit, you really outdid yourself with the editing on this one)
why is pepe the frog eating my brain
ah yes, the description of the most harmless amalgam in-game but the most creepy in concept
In all my time playing TTRPGs I've come to learn that there is nothing a DM fears More then a player with a smug smile, and the goblin is that smile manifested into a form of metal and Malice.
throw an anti-hacker melee Black Witch at that nerd. suplex the gobbo. *suplex it.*
First thing my player did at LL1 was puppet system a scout into its own orbital strike.
It's going to get worse from here.
Consider the following: Black Witch anti-hacker NPC.
So I know next to nothing about LANCER and it's game mechanics, lore and mechs. This is my introduction. This sounds very neat. :D
very looking forward to when you cover Kobold, because that delves into the other sides of Horus that acts as insurgents and help those that resist tyranny (while also retaining their very paracausal Horus nature)
same because just base kobold alone can make a moutian out of a sinkhole.
Revolutionaries playing Minecraft
HELL YEAH KOBOLD!
the humming at 8:46 is just the LL1 using your mech's CPU to mine crypto, dw about it
And don't worry that it sounds suspiciously similar to the Balor's Nanites...
@@patsonicalit's *fine*
Fun facts: if you overcharge on your turn, you can open the Fourth Gate on someone to turn them into an allied character, and then activate your core power to attach yourself to them while they're still allied. Nothing says you have to detach if they stop being your ally. You can now self destruct your mech and the hapless bastard you're stuck to can't run from it.
That's a new one to me. Using your goblin as a 4d6 sticky bomb certainly sends a message!
This right here is true goblin behaviour
I love the Goblin. It's my second favorite license in Lancer lore after the Lich. I actually play one, and I cannot justify not taking Technophile on my pilot because they *know* how bad things could get if they don't have a backup NHP to keep OSIRIS in line. That thing is a few years of neglect away from becoming another RA.
Sounds like a good reason to stay on its good side and help it, or at the very least not get in the way, of its Ascension.
I took technophile on my goblin pilot and it was so fun letting the mech run around on its own 😂
Killed an entire warehouse district of its guards and kidnapped the corrupt owner for the insolence of trying to steal and scrap the party’s mechs in a fraud scheme!
Worse than RA actually.
Because RA was brought into existence through a simulation paradox and shaped humanity by becoming it's law and its enforcement.
Osiris willed itself into existence by essentially building itself into Godhood and wished to edit reality itself.
RA could have ended humanity, but ended up simply shackling its potential. Osiris would end reality as we know it and has absolutely zero issue letting us know of this goal.
@@jemm113 wait... you let it off the leash....
@@lechking941 it can’t cascade without my consent and the technophile NHP was in direct control of the mech. I left it off the leash and let it roam around a nice, big, fenced pasture 😌
God in a tin can. I love how the OSIRIS NHP evolves from what are essentially just elements of a cybernetic nervous system into a fully fledged paracausal entity.
Every time I see Zak cover a horus frame, I get more and more excited for Pegasus and his description of Sisyphus
I run two Lancer games. Both of them, completely separate groups of players... have a Goblin.
It is an ENORMOUS headache. XD
Aaah, the greatest enemy of all TTRPGs...
Doors.
"it's a thing of evil"
Love the fact that the glitch effect here is just the thing from the stars from DD
given the THING is part of a warped REALITY of the farm. like i WANT to do that shit but god dam do i first have to survive base game.
@@lechking941 tbh, the Thing is probably the worst piece of official DD content ever published
This is the video that introduced me to Lancer, and I wish I could combine the Lich frames resurrection feature with the Manticore’s Castigate The Enemies Of The Godhead
My solution to dealing with Goblin pilots is to have a Goblin NPC. Truly no better way of showing superiority and finding who is the better hacker.
Ah yes, the Shadow solution. 😂
Is there an NPC class that is based off of the Goblin?
That shared heat/conditions thing has lead to a couple of significant whoopsies from my team's goblin pilot when he linked with me. Only to discover my average turn would immediately burn out his tiny reactor.
It needs an extra sticky note in the description telling the player to not use it on anything from harrison
@@rafaelferreirasantos7819 I love that you could immediately tell I was a Harrison pilot.
@@callumdavis9841i mean....harrison is known to get Heated after all XD
Plot twist, the Goblin using Nuc Cav and WANTS the heat for Autopod madness
Something I find interesting to realize is that the Goblin in-universe isn't actually all that much of a trickster.
Between the dominion over systems and senses, the overrides of reality and the base concept of liturgicode, which can be essentially defined as worship in the form of digital code, this is not primarily a pattern group of sneaky tech saboteurs or sorcerers of any sort. Instead, Goblins are priests. Lowly, little servant machines with the purpose of being the tools through which a digital, paracausal god like an NHP manifests its will into reality, even if only in ephemeral figments individually.
Pray you never have to face a unified cult of Goblins or you will find that you will have prayed to the wrong god.
Send in a detachment of black witches and drakes.
Let them go to town.
Then the goblins will learn that gods must not fuck woth mankind,or they'll fall as well.
@@raylenn4444 I actually ran a full party where all of us where goblins, GM tried EXACTLY that, BW and drakes lasted less than 6 turns. Divine shackles and Hurl into dust caused a domino effect, they died almost all on the same turn once two drakes got to 4th gate. RA ain’t got much against Osi boy
The Goblin doesn't look that scary, until you realize it came from Horus, and then you start to imagine what a truly demented person hellbent on chaos can do with a Goblin. Now imagine said Goblin being randomly released into your future city. Thanks for the video.
Send in barbarossa to snipe it outside it's sensor range with an apocalypse rail.
Then revise your statement.
The group I play with has just started a Lancer campaign almost solely because I wouldn't shut up about how cool Lancer is after watching your videos. Showed them COMP/CON and the free rulebook and they were sold. Mechs are cool.
One of the things I love about Lancer is I can completely disregard one mech or another for a variety of reasons, but the moment I learn more about it either lore or gameplay I instantly want to use it. I previously gave no shits about the Goblin, but learning about it made it super interesting. I now stand completely unsure of what I’m going to use when I find a group to do play.
Holy shit
I just realized that the world of lancer exists in our world
Ra is massif games-
Shhh, youre not supposed to know
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GUN: GUN
I am not the biggest fan of the chassis itself, but the license... oh god, that license...
Outfitting a Chomolungma with Goblin systems should be a war crime. The amount of havoc me and Ozzy have wrought is probably unreasonable.
I built an LL2 Chomolungma with Goblin systems for an upcoming campaign. I cannot wait for the first tile I use my Core Active. It’s going to be so much fun.
@@drakeford4860 I was VERY tempted to keep my Chomolungma frame but I loved the Goblin’s system range and core too much.
Bros yapping about doors 0:15
Some of my favorite characters have piloted the goblin. However my all time favorite was made to destroy them, yes i did name the mech "The Goblin Slayer"
Oh was it a caliban? 😂
@@jemm113 actually yeah it was 🤣
While SSC gets the spider tank fun from GiTS, this is more in line with what the Major would pilot. Or the effective main character at a Shadowrun table who makes plan A actually work, invalidating the hitters' and getaway driver's prep.
Union section 9... oh boy that's a scary thought
@@lillithyukiutacrow2532 A lot less scary than them having to dust off the old Sec Com fleet assets and refit them with Apocalypse rail CQB turrets because KTB and HA are going at it.
@bthsr7113 oh yeah... the horrors that could be aboard those ships given Sec Com's stance on certain... thiiiiings 😬
19:43 teams have been autobalanced! you are now on blu!
Inb4 it gets hit with a Drake's leviathan and has to make at least 1 structure check, if not being outright destroyed in a single burst from the monstrous beast of a weapon carried by a walking fortress whose design is the epitome of military industrial complex.
Overcharge for 1 heat, extra quick action to spin up the leviathan, full action to fire the leviathan, take 2 more heat
Fun thing, the goblin's sensor range is 20. The barbarossa's siege cannon is 30 range and you can equip it on an everest. Do with it what you will
Dakka beats hacking nuisance.
Simple as that.
That little feral bastard is now my child and I love them ✨💙💚✨
Paracausal photoshop. That’s what it is. Its abilities are basically making photoshop edits to the universe and forgetting to hit ctrl+s.
Soon, Tortuga my boy
but next is the mr clean alien eraser
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. Smells like victory."
Oh these gits, found way too many in the hands of the worst pirates my team and I have had to hunt doing jobs for IPS, An absolute nightmare in zero-grav but damn if it isn't satisfying when my Zheng gets to use them for pinball. Fairly sure our resident tech ripped a bunch of their salvage on to his Lancaster/Kidd hybrid, may have to have a word with him.
Darkest dungeon makes a great source for eldtritch horror/body horror horror/horror and well used. LOVE IT! Also GOBLIN MODE is probably a very different term in lancer land than it is now.
Probably means either going deranged power mad hacker or trying to shut off any way to remotely access your systems... though that doesn't seem to be a thing, mechanically.
I've been waiting for this one, goblin is such a funny lil guy
I love and fear the potential of the Goblin. Your videos make these complex abilities easier to understand.
As a goblin enjoyer I am so here for this video. Really looking forward to the Lich video.
Also imagine a cascading Osiris as the BBEG of your game using the Goblin frame as some sort of physical manifestation in real space. Like Ultron but Eldritch Math Cthulhu.
Ok I love the Osiris NHP as a concept that's so fucking cool
Hey, this a great video, but there's a glaring error right near the start!
The thing that differentiates a Flex Mount from a Main Mount is that a Main can take a Main or smaller weapon, while a Flex can take a Main weapon or TWO Auxiliary weapons.
Any mount can be used for a smaller weapon than it can handle (with a few exceptions).
While I'm rambling about mounts: The Main/Aux Mount can take a Main AND an Aux weapon, not a Main or Aux (that'd just be a Main Mount).
I really love this series, and hope to see more form you in the future!
Great video! I love the Horus mechs, they are just so unusual. I can’t wait for the next Horus mech, as I’m currently running a Gorgon in a game and its core power is breaking my DM’s brain.
I really disliked the goblin until this video. I've been reading (and making sense of) lancer a lot for over a year now and I deeply appreciate how you explain a lot of the worldbuilding and make it make sense within the internal logic of the setting. Thank you so much! Now I like goblin a lot :3
I love goblin. He literally such a goblin.
So Osiris: was a God, isn't as strong as it used to be, only helps you if you make it think it's their idea or if you praise it efforts. Is Osiris a tsundere anime girl?
Pilot: Let's edit that guy from reality.
Osiris: Fine but not because you asked b-baka.😡
Pilot: Thank you Osiris.
Osiris:😊
Lol, I just pictured an Osiris working for head-pats and pastry offerings.
Though this line of thinking opens the door to goudere and yandere...
Goudere...maybe with a black star/ rock lee /simon kinda pilot
Oh good I'm not the only one who thought this lol
Absolutely love these videos! Great format for introducing lore. If only I could actually find someone to play Lancer with…
Same I can't find a GM
I got suggested this video by the youtube algo gods. And now I am hooked at your content, and I am just here to say, your videos are great Lancer Man.
Multiverse. My theory is Osirus is a version of Ra from a dead and forgotten other possible future split from the incident that created Ra, and it's slowly leaking in.
The reason there aren't any other possible realities that don't include Ra is because they all fell to their own "gods" or were quickly subsumed. Ra knows this and is a benevolent God, but doesn't care for these outside "gods" (must less friendly versions of itself from the multiverse) and as such enacts the bans on developing the tech that might let them loose.
Meanwhile, the Horus group, (Horus being the son of Osirus), are individuals corrupted by this leakage from dead realities and are actively looking to bring forth Osirus once it reaches a critical mass.
(It should also be noted that historically, there's some back and forth between worshippers in different times and different parts of the Nile whether Ra or Osirus is more important)
Genghis is next!
Hopefully we will see both versions, Mk.1 Worldkiller and Mk. 2.
Worldkiller will get a mention, but will be covered as a part of a video on No Room For A Wallflower.
@@Zaktact Okay, so you are splitting them off into the base Frames in the corebook and the variant Frames when you go over the various other official works.
I gotcha!
One of my favorite moments in Lancer was when our team (Security for a Union based diplomatic mission that went sideways fast) made a hasty deal with a higher up in Harrison Armory to get her to help with protecting a planet from a disgraced Karakin noble with a chip on his shoulder a mile wide. So the HA ally we got had a really powerful chassis and we knew the MOMENT this was mission was done she was going to double cross us and go for the planet herself. So I loaded out with my Goblin and decided to use my core power on her mech, which wound up working out well. I got Osiris ticked up to the 4th gate at the end of the skirmish, and when the battle was over, neither the HA ally nor I had taken our turns for the round.
So I target HER with Hurl into the Duat to take control of her systems and convince the GM that I could tell her mech to phase in firmament (yeah she could do that) while I ejected myself and the Osiris casket so as not to get sucked in myself.
I made a crit on the hacking roll.
And so I was thinking we'd get like a round or two to regroup, but nope. She was banished to the shadow realm.
She came back later, but I was still shocked how well it worked.
When I reached the Goblin in the Lancer rule book, I chuckled at the idea of the chassis being a, well, goblin. Then I got to the NHP… Oh boy, that thing is scary.
ah yes, the "I'm gonna cause problems on purpose" mech
I will patiently wait through this series for the Pegasus video. I'm not biased towards it, I definitely don't use it to drive my GM insane...
That was awesome. Like holy hell I love the Horus mechs so much. Now kill it with the annihilation canon xD
Thanks for making this Zach. You're awesome dude 😄
Fewer things are more fun than a Full Hull, Goblin + Tortuga.
Give the Goblin a shotgun that can deal 2d6 per shot. Its amazing
Me when Zaktact describes the horror of the Balor: Gimme gimme!
When he talks about the horror of the Goblin: Oh no, oh dear, get it away from me! GET IT AWAY!
And of course horus mechs don't have a standardized appearance. They can look like basically anything, and with their size they can fit into most spaces that would fit a human...
Tiny ambush god.
4:48 of course I look over as I'm modding darkest dungeon and see the thing from the stars! Now that I think about it, I'm surprised I've never seen a darkest dungeon tabletop setting. seems like it would be a great fit.
Brick yourself sounds very different if you remove it from a hacking context
Both very valid with this little guy
@@Iymarra with any mech NGL
This isn't a goblin it's an unholy fusion of XCOM greys and engineering+electronics Gremlins.
Just discovered Lancer + your vids. Loving the level of detail, sense of humor, fun editing - keep it coming bro, beyond useful at the moment XD
I remember my time running Goblin in a Lancer Campaign, whenever I hijacked an enemy's systems I'd always put "would you kindly" before any command, just to add dramatic flair to their unwilling actions, like. "would you kindly step into that malfunctioning electric grid"
Metahook works great on hackers with low sensor range, like Manticore or Balor. Just hook into your Swallowtail buddy and bring the enemies right where you want them, within slashing range.
I once played in a party with one goblin one kobold and an Everest. Basically one tripped them up the other pulled their pants down and the last put the boot in.
Slowly but surely, I'm getting more and more convinced on buying the Lancer book thanks to your great presentations. Thanks for them!
(Also, love your mech videos, but I miss your faction presentations)
He’s literally me FR
Me when I use my bright red Goblin as the head of a Gurren Lagann combination
Also, "REAL" stands for Real Enough At Least
If the Virtual Adepts / Mercurial Elite built a mech, it would be the Goblin.
Thanks for the video Z. Much appreciated, love the Lancer series you've made.
Like, I would argue that the Goblin is an almost must have in a Lancer party. It’s just so powerful.
The license is great but the frame just does not hold up compared to its GMS counterpart. Or the half dozen hacker frames that don't have crippling stay deficiencies.
@@philipplyanguzov9090
Even if you don't take the frame, the licenses seem like a necessary component of any Lancer party.
I think there is something really funny about the target of so many jokes for being so squishy, the target for so much violence and... The way the license and his flavor text evolves from a really weird flavor to "being a backpack", to hacking systems (first just messing around and then creating physical stuff) and then... Osiris
It makes the Goblin so much MORE
I personally had never read past the license I and his base traits and core system and WOW
Wasn't expected this little guy to be the fragile egg of a god
Wait, can a goblin recall a mourning cloak that failed a teleport with shackles?
...Judge! Rules question!
Yesssss one step closer to the minotaur video
Damn this video went hard, unironically one of your best videos!
EL GOBLINO!!!
I was expecting a bit to drop at the end there 😂 great video as always
man, Lancer should start to just straight up pay this guy. hes single handedly sextupling the Lancer player base with every video
"Hi, my name's Joe and this is my Goblin, Cotton Eye. Together we have enemies asking themselves, 'Where did they come from and where did they go?'"
My favorite potential use for Celestial Shackles is if you have a Morning Cloak ally who likes to Blinkspace Jump a lot. Put the Shackles on them, and if they teleport and don't come back, you could just yank them back
"It's Just A Prank Bro!" The Frame.
Another player in my group had one of these, and it decided to take the form of the 'OTH3R' as a Jackal... and liked listening to audiobooks. This is how we payed it for it's services: alleviating boredom. We also tended to get it a meal when we ate, and throw that into the extradimensional space for it. Typically something minimally processed if available, but it wasn't very picky.
Update: I have been reminded **in character** (apparently it read this) that it only eats that way because the issue with de-rezzing it's 'OTH3R' form with every bite being extremely annoying.
Osiris is just the deceiver from 40k
"This thing can delete you from existence!"
.... Bold words for someone in DAMAGE DICE Range.
Oh, so I'm playing the parasite. Both in game and in real life.🤔🤔
Saw edit, can’t wait for the CAIN video!
Using the goblin to hack the enemy's system so I can install Doom on it.
This gives me an idea for an incredibly troll build for a group: the Goblin boat.
Have a Lancaster with the riding harness, and have five goblins on the harness and one riding the Lancaster directly. The amount of fucking around would be apocalyptic. 😂
goblin is one of my favorite mechs to play going full hack/spotter (i only play at license 3) this mechs so cool
I’ve always found the goblin’s massive err “crotch piece” a bit disconcerting so now I have a headcanon that the NHP is stored in the protruding bulge.
That title is perfect. In my first time playing Lancer, I made a goblin, and it was my headcanon that whenever I hacked someone their screens would be filled with goatse and live leak.
I also made it's only weapon be the terashima blade for extra f u n n y .
That's right, I made a melee goblin work.
Meele Goblin is actually pretty scary
@@rita6355 Give it all levels of skirmisher and a terashima blade, and you're a force to be reckoned with. Maybe add some nelson bits for maximum zoom. Don't need to attach myself to my party member who can teleport when I can just yeet myself across the same distance!
Big fan of mech games and TTRPGs and this is my first time hearing of Lancer. I'll have to look into it more.
One of the creators is also the guy behind the absurdly epic webcomic Kill Six Billion Demons.