Lancer Alternative Sheets
- This is a module for the unofficial Lancer game system to provide alternative player-directed sheets for the tabletop game Lancer by Massif Press.
It is designed to be a player-facing sheet that provides all of the functionality carried over from the original sheet, providing an immersive and convenient way to interact with the Lancer system, and a simple-to-understand responsive layout.
While the main goal was to provide aesthetic alternative sheets to the Lancer system, there are some functional features included as well:
- per-sheet sheet configuration/customization
- reminders on ruling for statuses, stats, and some actions; useful for new players in particular
- view/remove applied status effects
- run/add/remove macros to the sheet
- 'action log' that filters the sheet actor's actions into their own log
- counter/clock display on talents, core bonuses, and frame traits
- more detailed send-to-chat for various Lancer items (such as weapons and NPC features)
- configure and display bond, token, and actor art separately
- in-sheet animated token display support
In addition to the above:
* player mech sheets display some useful pilot sheet items such as core bonuses and pilot talents.
* player mech sheets and pilot sheets feature a sidebar where useful stats are always easily accessed at a glance
* deployable sheets list all their available actions and activations
Sheet Previews
The Lancer system by default comes with these themes, which this module supports
- General Massive Systems (GMS)
- General Massive Systems Dark (GMS-Dark)
- IPS-Northstar (IPS-N)
- Smith-Shimano Corpro (SSC)
- HORUS
- Harrison Armory (HA)
- Mirrorsmoke Mercenary Company (MSMC)
- Forecast/Galactic Sumulation (GALSIM)
Pilot Sheets
Mech Sheets
NPC Sheets
Deployable Sheets
Installation
This module can be installed:
- using the Foundry module installer
- downloaded and installed manually (from module.zip) found in the Releases page
- or directly using the latest manifest link:
https://github.com/annoyedb/lancer-alternative-sheets/releases/latest/download/module.json
Using the sheet
To use the sheet, you must select the "Sheet" configuration (to the left of "Close" in the images above) in the selected actor sheet and select "Alternative <Type> Sheet" to override the default sheet or to act as the new default sheet.
The implemented sheets are as follows:
- Pilot sheets
- Mech sheets
- NPC sheets
- Deployable sheets
To change the global system theme, change the LANCER system theme by going to Game Settings -> Configure Settings -> LANCER -> UI Theme. This setting is per-client, but all sheets will reflect this setting by default.
To override or set a fixed theme per-sheet, you can activate the 'advanced toggle' in the sheet (in the sheet itself, typically near the top) and find a notebook symbol. This setting is synced across all clients.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How do I roll a weapon/system?
A: For rollable items, such as weapons or systems there's an icon with the background of a D20 in it, that glows slightly. You can press this to roll your weapon. If you have suggestions on how to make this more obvious so this question doesn't need to be asked, please make an inquiry in the issues page or directly to me on Discord!
Q: How do I change my system theme?
A: To change the global system theme, change the LANCER system theme by going to Game Settings -> Configure Settings -> LANCER -> UI Theme. This setting is per-client, but all sheets will reflect this setting by default.
Q: How do I change the theme of a single sheet?
A: To override or set a fixed theme per-sheet, you can activate the 'advanced toggle' in the sheet (in the sheet itself, typically near the top) and find a notebook symbol. This setting is synced across all clients.
Q: How do I enable sensors or the tech attack stat on my sheet?
A: Rules-as-written for Lancer, player pilots do not have tech attacks, and by extension have no use for either stat, excepting the 'Search' action, which states an explicit range of 5. If you wish to enable the display of these stats on the pilot sheets anyway and you are a GM, you can do so in the settings page of this module.
Q: What is the difference between the image on the sidebar (side) and the image shown on the header (top)?
A: Functionally, the image on the sidebar is the token (or prototype token) art and the image on the header is the actor art. In layman's the side image is what appears when you drag a token onto a scene or your 'play token' on Foundry and the top is the image that appears on the actor list or your 'main art' for your character (and is often used by modules such as Carousel Combat Tracker among many others to represent your character over the token)
Q: Help something broke and I need to wipe the module's settings data!
A: In the event that for some reason you need to completely reset this module's settings data there are some functions that I've written that can help with that:resetMechSheetLocalData(uuid?: string);resetMechSheetData(uuid?: string);resetNPCSheetData(uuid?: string);resetPilotSheetLocalData(uuid?: string);resetPilotSheetData(uuid?: string);resetDeployableSheetData(uuid?: string);
You can open a browser's console to access these functions. For example, to reset pilot sheet data for the pilot (header img offsets, theme override, macros, and bond image source) with a UUID of 'Actor.WxLln2hSz8EtXcLc' (it's often just "Actor." + "ID of your actor", accessible within Foundry's native UI) would be to use resetPilotSheetData so the command would be: game.modules.get("lancer-alternative-sheets").api.settings.resetPilotSheetData('Actor.WxLln2hSz8EtXcLc'). Not defining a UUID will clear all pilot data rather than a specific one. If this sounds too technical for you, I don't recommend you fiddling with these commands and instead contacting me on PilotNET.
Contributing
Please report any issues or concerns you have over at the Issue Tracker. Alternatively, you can message me (annoying) over in the Lancer Discord (AKA Pilot NET).
Known issues (as well as updates on whether or not they have been resolved) can be found at the Full Changelog
The sheet utilizes Foundry's localization implementation to display text. If you wish to contribute to localization for a language and help accommodate for players of a non-English speaking community, I am always open to pull requests!
If you are looking to contribute to localization but do not have the technical experience to know where to start, please contact me on Pilot NET!
Acknowledgements
- League of Foundry Developers - Type definitions for Foundry
- COMP/CON - Color themes, design inspiration, and some assets
- foundryvtt-lancer - Original source reference for module development and module support
- Material Design Icons, Font Awesome - Some icons