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Something we haven't done for a long, long time is a mailbag episode, mainly because we have the Discord server and people are always jumping in, asking questions.

But I did go into our Discord server, which you, dear listener, can join for free.

Link in the show notes, go in there.

There's Critical Hit channel.

Patrons get an additional channel for extra secret sneaky stuff.

But we've got a bunch of questions that have come in and we're going to see how many of them we can get through this

week. So the first couple of ones, Rodrigo, I think are specifically for you because they're

asking specifically Lancer questions. So Paul Dragh asks, I haven't read any of the books for

Lancer. Is there any particular reason why three players chose the same base frame,

even with them being three different builds?

So first of, four players.

Four players, yeah.

With the same base frame.

Really, only Brian has a different one.

And that's because in the game without any supplements, there's only one starting

mech. Everybody starts with the same mech. Eventually, they added two more. So Brian, who like has

actually sat down to read this stuff, was like, hey, can I bring this one in?

And I was like, sure.

So the reason why Lancer does that is to kind of ease you into the game so that you don't have, you know,

when everybody has the same frame traits, it's easier to then focus on your

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