Announcing Ghosts Beyond the Scar, a New Five-Act Campaign for Lancer
A mystery-driven campaign of piracy, corporate intrigue, and tactical mech combat set in a remote frontier system.
I am pleased to announce Ghosts Beyond the Scar, a new full-length campaign for the mech combat tabletop roleplaying game Lancer. The campaign launched on Kickstarter this past Tuesday with digital and print-on-demand reward options.
Set in the remote Al-Kahriss system, Ghosts Beyond the Scar places players in the cockpits of mechs as they investigate a series of disappearing shipments containing critical resources for faster-than-light travel.
What begins as an investigation into pirate raids soon becomes something far more complicated.
Players will travel across the three worlds of the Barony of the Eight-Fold Wind: the idyllic agricultural world of Vael, the sprawling city-world of Mirr, and the harsh industrial mining world of Kharon. Along the way, they will uncover a network of black-market operators, corporate conspiracies, and increasingly strange events that point toward a hidden intelligence manipulating the system from behind the scenes.
Ghosts Beyond the Scar started with a simple question: what would happen if a logistics NHP became afraid of being cycled?. From there, the campaign grew into a story about survival, identity, and what an artificial intelligence might be willing to do when it believes its own existence is about to be erased.
The campaign is structured across five acts, with branching missions and meaningful choices that allow players to influence subsequent encounters. Some missions can be ignored entirely, while others force players to choose between competing objectives when there simply isn't enough time to accomplish both.
The campaign includes:
- 16 tactical combat encounters
- 1 new player mech chassis
- 11 new weapons and systems
- 16 full-color battle maps ready for virtual tabletop use
- New NPCs, factions, locations, and support assets
- Optional missions with unique rewards
- Branching combat scenarios with consequences that carry into later missions
- A complete five-act campaign designed for an extended Lancer game
The campaign's central mystery unfolds gradually, beginning with apparently routine pirate attacks before expanding into a conspiracy involving the system's coveted resources and the powerful interests controlling them. The campaign culminates in the industrial depths of Kharon, where players will finally uncover the truth behind the mysterious intelligence known as Ledger One.
Ghosts Beyond the Scar is designed to be playable as a complete campaign while also providing encounters, maps, NPCs, and new player options that Game Masters can incorporate into their own Lancer games.
Digital and Print Options
Backers can choose between two reward tiers.
A $20 pledge includes the complete digital PDF of Ghosts Beyond the Scar, distributed through DriveThruRPG.
A $30 pledge includes the PDF as well as print-on-demand codes for both the softcover and hardcover editions. Backers can redeem the codes through DriveThruRPG and purchase the physical editions for the cost of printing and shipping.
Digital distribution and print-on-demand fulfillment will be handled through DriveThruRPG, allowing the finished campaign to be made available to backers worldwide without the need for traditional crowdfunding fulfillment and international shipping operations.
About the Creator
Hey there! I'm Benjamin Palmer. I'm an independent TTRPG creator and longtime player and Game Master with a passion for adventure design, worldbuilding, and creating memorable tactical encounters. I've successfully crowdfunded seven TTRPG projects across Kickstarter and BackerKit and I've published over 140 modules for 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons over on DriveThruRPG.
Ghosts Beyond the Scar represents a continued effort to create complete, ready-to-run adventures that combine strong narrative campaigns with the tactical depth of tabletop mech combat.
Kickstarter
The Ghosts Beyond the Scar Kickstarter campaign is now live.
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