Lancer is a science fiction tabletop role-playing game about laser mecha, created by Miguel Lopez and Tom Bloom (né Parkinson-Morgan).

Instead of experience points, Lancer tracks character growth using milestones, allowing players to level up after each mission by hand-picking upgrades from any mech in the game.

[1] In an interview with Luke Shaw for Dicebreaker, the creators attributed their disciplined work ethic on the project to Lopez's recent MFA in Creative Writing and Bloom's previous three years of producing the weekly webcomic Kill Six Billion Demons.

[6] In 2023, Massif Press announced a second printing, to be published as an illustrated hardcover book in collaboration with Dark Horse Comics.

In a public email to the awards committee, Massif Press said that the supplement contained "casual graphic sexual assault and racism.