Intro to ICON, FINAL LANCER FANTASY

ICON is a still in development tactical fantasy tabletop roleplaying game written by Tom Parkinson Morgan, or Abbadon, author of Kill Six Billion Demons, set in the land of Arken Eld that's pivoting from a peaceful green age to the violent turbulence of the churning age as ancient arkentech ruins rise from beneath the surface.
And you, are the Icon, a person cursed to have great power and fated to change the course of history. Question is, what will you do with this power?
You can get Icon playtest version for free on itch io ( massif-press.itch.io/icon ) right now! But it's still in a rather rough phase and undergoing all sorts of changes and balancing, so the final result will possible be a lot different.
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[@Dorsidwarf]

I laughed so hard at "They are so tall that old age cannot reach them, making them immortal"

[@richmcgee434]

Evokes mental image of tiny Grim Reapers scampering around their feet, scything at their ankles in impotent fury.

[@PhileasLiebmann]

Parkinson-Morgan must be a fucking machine to be putting shit like this out while also doing K6BD at the same time.

[@necktiefox2917]

As a procrastinating trainwreck of a person who hasn't finished anything yet and has trouble even finishing painting my Battletech models, I bow down to him in both fear and awe and pray to attain 0.01% of his power.

[@TheAnon26]

I mean. I wouldnt be too surprised if the RPGs are just him procrastinating on K6BD, while K6BD is him procrastinating on RPGs. ^^

[@DocDeeISC]

Yes, CRAB PEOPLE are BEST PEOPLE

[@craftsmenMC]

As soon as I saw “dust, which is Magic and money”, I knew I’d have to use this for my upcoming Endless Legend campaign.

[@viator22]

You'd barely even have to reflavor to make this work with The Endless

[@dmr2044]

I'm already trying to convince my friends to play lancer, and now I'm gonna impulsively make a campaign for ICON. Curse you abaddon for your awesome TTRPGS but also thank you for making them so good.

[@richmcgee434]

I don't know where he finds the time to do all this stuff, what with launching all those Black Crusades and being king of the Abyss and showing up in half the video games ever made. Busy guy. Demon. Archangel. Whatever.

[@squidrecluse2336]

Me: "Ok, so one of my players wants to run a 5e game, and after that I'll run my Pathfinder 2e homebrew, maybe do a few Thirsty Sword Lesbian one shots, if the Avatar game is out by then maybe we'll mess around with that for a bit, and then once we get all of that out of the way I think I can convince them to give Lancer a go." Abbadon: "... so here's this Icon thing..." Me: "Hhhhhrrrnnnnngggg, alright add that too..."

[@LordAini]

Check out Warpland. It is great for smaller games, easy to pick up and pretty unique in what it offers. It is also very cheap. Just to add on to your pile, because I didn't know about Thirsty Sword Lesbians and now I do.

[@suckonfatman6027]

Wow, you have a group that doesn't play only 5e? Impressive!

[@MrFoundryguy]

As a heads up to anyone watching, ICON was recently updated to 1.4 and has more jobs and additional system clarity than shown off in this video. Check it out, it's nearing content completion by the author's reasoning, but keep in mind it's still a little awkward in its formatting as it is still a beta. On another note, I have to thank you for showing off this system DK. I'm swapping over to it from a Pathfinder-style system for long running campaign. Really hoping that Massif keep publishing systems like these; both ICON and LANCER have so much lore for their worlds but have some crazy adaptability to homebrew settings that I don't see too often for non-narrative games.

[@littlekinginc124]

I just would pay to have an art book with art from this guy

[@XMokuMundoX]

Then you'll love his comics

[@littlekinginc124]

@@XMokuMundoX indeed i do!

[@dracomon4682]

You got me at "heavenly Potemkin Buster, grapple the gods themselves"

[@TotalACABReena]

Consistently impressed with Abbadon's capacity to make ttrpg lore that makes you care. It's hard to describe, but the fundamental thru lines of the world (moving from the green age to the churning, dealing with the past monsters coming to harm people in the present) is a nice piece of context to root characters and settings into the greater goings on of the world, no matter how small a part they play. It's the same genius of the world of Lancer, and it makes me feel like I should have a stake in what's going on in the big picture

[@ishvalda_]

I love that there aren't any generic races in this all of the kins are so unique

[@bumberton7958]

This game literally has everything I want: - Cowboy class - Murderclown class - Fishing - Cooking - Cool lore stuff - Nonlethal encounters for maximum friendship This boutta be my new obsession I can feel it

[@MithrilRoshi]

Its the murderclown that sold it for me.

[@chr0onomeister]

So if I understand this right, I can combine enochian/megumin and freelancer/gun and make a mage that flies around with a staff that loads shells and uses her own life to empower her spells for added friendship? I can make Nanoha?

[@CleoPinto4317]

fool is the best@@MithrilRoshi

[@elijahhayter3026]

I was sold, the moment you said cowboy class.

[@frito1625]

"You will pick Xixo" Sorry kid, but I made a funny frog with a gun. Nice try though

[@DocDeeISC]

Frog is next best

[@andysimons]

More of my players picked frog than anything else

[@LordAini]

C R A B

[@Gideon020]

Dust huh. *Endless Legend intensifies*

[@XMokuMundoX]

Dusk Bois here we go

[@scottjennings503]

My brain is locked in sci-fi mecha mode right now, but I'm gonna make a point of looking at this to see if there's anything I can steal for Lancer. And I'm sure I'll have headspace for fantasy again at some point.

[@richmcgee434]

I'm sure a bit of geneering (especially with paracausal assistance) could make the kin a viable "lifestyle choice" for Lancer folks bored with baseline humanity.

[@VALKRYSA]

Started getting into ICON thanks to this video. Wish people made more videos on this game because while I'm slowly making my way through the book, I think visual examples of real play would help a lot.

[@Silverarika]

What I would give to come across a small channel playing a campaign of this with their friends

[@Rattleboneses]

Oh noes, not another Tom game, I haven't even gotten a chance to play Lancer yet >.>

[@samedwards3186]

I’m sorry but those 3 words in that order are exactly everything I want from a game

[@justmutantjed]

That clip of Gumi the parrot at 2:04 startled the heck out of me. Good pull there!

[@richmcgee434]

Future calling: Playtest Version 1.3 just dropped 2/8/2022. New stuff, rebalances, more art. Looks good as expected.

[@Mikehy.mp3]

im so hyped for this, I love lancer so much but my players are so accustomed to the fantasy setting of D&D. I'm def gonna try to run a short campaign of this at some point it looks so sick

[@nugsnotdrugs7717]

2:02 absolutely love that edit, almost enough to forget that Crab Superiority is the only way to play

[@xipietotec]

One thing I’d like to see added to these types of PbtA/BitD games is the idea of the “owe list” from In a Wicked Age. The idea from the “owe list” is that there’s no mechanical downside to your character dying, and can actually benefit you for you allowing your character to die (in In A Wicked Age, death has to be agreed upon by all players involved). It basically gives you an extra power or feat on your next character if your character died.

[@11dragonkid11]

That sounds like an interesting idea but Icon has like several ways of mitigating both player's death and NPC's death. It could work for a more 'lethal' RPG though!

[@xipietotec]

@@11dragonkid11 I think even in a “non-lethal” rpg it can be used as a way to entice players into doing a heroic sacrifice if they know not only will it not be punished, but also rewarded if it helps the narrative gameplay. Edit: it doesn’t even have to be a death per se: one of the big influences of Icon is FFVI, Terra gets taken out of the narrative for awhile and then gets a power up, it could be anything that takes you out of the narrative for awhile.

[@Tojeaux_]

I’ve been waiting since the announcement on Twitter for this video. (Also I got abbadon to add fishing to the 1.2 version and that made me shout in excitement)

[@Alpha___00]

Yes! I was thinking about adapting Lancer system to classical adventuring... and they did it for me!

[@jesterfarron]

Time to make a Monster Hunter Frontier campaign

[@FanOfMostEverything]

Final Flancercy Tactics? Sold.

[@DarkTommus]

Your videos already helped me dive into Lancer, And now, I want to try another RPG... Good work!

[@daisyjohnson4837]

10:42 LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO WE LOOVE IT WHEN PEOPLE FIGHT LIKE PEOPLE AND NOT TO THE DEATH

[@wyattgrodzins5214]

My buddy is playing a session this Sunday. I'm so hyped to findout how the gameplay feels

[@inatinybox7210]

I can't wait to become crab!

[@Twinnblade]

It's the music from Solstice! I would have never predicted that. More love to Solstice

[@DrMayhemDoD]

Blades In the Dark narrative as with Lancer combat? Holy shit that's awesome! But also Trash Talk on Gubat Banwa when?

[@11dragonkid11]

Only when it's really coming, it's going through so much revisions and balance changes that practically anything I say on the topic will be incorrect a week later.

[@richmcgee434]

Does seem like a fortuitous combination of mechanical elements, doesn't it?

[@jacquiejeanconway7541]

Thank you for this video! We started playing this game a few weeks ago and we have been loving it. Also I absolutely loved your video. The quality and jokes were fantastic! If you haven't already, the robots voices are okay but admittedly I love the human voice. I think you'd be amazing but understand if you don't want to.

[@Dr.LemonMan]

Okay ima need to immediately play this there are all the important thing you need in ttrpg and that is crab well there are other and they are all here but crab is perhaps most important

[@risenbow6592]

This sounds like it would make a really fun video game

[@brandnamepending4817]

that fucking mystery of the druid jumpsacre, also wow i wanna play this system now seems hella cool

[@stormiestcampfire]

Would love to see an updated version for the full release if only because I’m to poor to glimpse at it!

[@stormiestcampfire]

*too

[@JudgeNicodemus]

How dare Abbadon make yet another cool thing. Dis makes me angy. I barely just finished a campaign where I fucked around with my orb-of-death mech.

[@evangardner8960]

It is so nice to find another person who recognizes the superiority of crabs. Praise be to the great crab god.

[@celihenry3227]

between the egs and the xixo, im beginning to sense a theme in abbadon's works

[@Yemyemno007]

For the crab

[@walterhaider869]

That's it I'm a birdperson now

[@walterhaider869]

Thanks for heart

[@judsonwanderer]

I had to laugh at Heavenly Potemkin Buster

[@FMD-FullMetalDragon]

This game looks so cool.

[@ridetheyak]

Dragonkid delivers once again

[@kamvox3969]

Its about time! I’ve needed an 11dragonkid video to help explain some of the rules! I’m hoping you cover tactical combat here soon

[@richmcgee434]

More mechanical detail vids would be appreciated, yeah.

[@mekhetiidx]

fantastic intro

[@TiGunslinger]

Hype train incoming

[@MasoTrumoi]

I really want to play this game. I got the rules but don't know when I'll get a group to play it with.

[@DocDeeISC]

Same!

[@bumberton7958]

Same here, it seems pretty fun.

[@LordAini]

better aim for an online group, much easier than trying to persuade your friends to try a new game

[@MasoTrumoi]

@@LordAini Nah, a good chunk of my players are down for new systems. The problem is more that there's a buttload of systems that are in the queue before ICON, and so it's more trying to convince them (and myself) to play this one first.

[@LordAini]

@@MasoTrumoi you are lucky, I have to apply massive peer pressure to get them to try something that is not Exalted or Pathfinder, and I am the foreverGM.

[@starmantheta2028]

I've been hoping to run this for a bit once I get the gumption. This system seems cool, though, obviously, rough around the edges. I hope people don't approach this game as if it's a finished project.

[@torymiddlebrooks]

I am excited for Tall!

[@jamesdillane]

Crab

[@GabeSyme]

Time for crab

[@getmeoutoftheyoutubeservers]

hell yeah

[@NordicNinja]

GET EXCITED

[@ogremach79]

I played a test tactical combat and I played a fox man demon slayer who had a giant axe! He got his ass beat by two crystal demons and they tore his arm off and are planning to sacrifice him. I’m gonna see if I can get my kids to make characters to go save him! It was fun though!

[@UsuarioGenerico-li5pf]

This game sounds incredibly fun and at the same time more unique type of fantasy than your typical D&D clone or Low Fantasy. Even the way you explain the game makes it more palatable than other "reviewers". It doesn't have much to do with it but even this channel convinced me to try and read Lancer... And I don't like mechas :D

[@wickerbotterthewizard707]

Become As Crab

[@LordAini]

Looks really good, gonna check it out

[@tjduck85]

Enochian are straight up Lina Inverse from Slayers. She even has an ability called "Dragon Slave" with her ultimate spell being "Giga Slave."

[@dovahkiin_brasil]

Time for crab raid

[@ComicalConqueror]

holy shit tim follin music

[@estevanphillips6889]

“Whatever you pick-and you will pick Xixo-“ Accurate. As soon as I read ICON I immediately made a Xixo Brave Colossus and a Trogg Elder Demon-slayer.

[@gromaxe]

1:32 Ah, yes, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. reference!

[@pretentiousname01]

I am so hype.

[@gabrielhiyodo6144]

Thats just concentrated anime

[@namoeleon9908]

Oh boy, another great video for another great game! Hyped to get my hands on this and play a chicken man cowboy with a gunblade

[@oneofmanynone5082]

Surprised there isnt any humans. Still looks good

[@11dragonkid11]

There's only crab, crab eternal

[@malhekai]

🦀the humans are gone🦀

[@azazel6342]

All are become crab in time.

[@masterzoroark6664]

I mean... I would pick the crustocean people or the animal folk- both for similar reasons, but also crab has four arms Also- the explosion mage multiclass... so you mean Manticore is back, and this time it can take the entire fkin board with it (plus decission to kill- HAI GOTHIC :3)

[@DeadPig325]

Damn bro you got content on eveything nice hustle

[@oscarozzieozborne5783]

2:04 don't mind me, leaving this for myself.

[@phoenix_waffles2122]

“The Vodya” Ah yes my favorite fantasy race *t h e w a t e r*

[@condenihilit1572]

Ikr and "Lorito" means "lil'parrot". It's basically like saying "The Birb"

[@b1g_m00n]

sounds cool

[@andysimons]

Become Crab, abandon gender

[@phoenix_waffles2122]

6:00 Music to my ears Funniest part is that I like Leo Edit: opinion changes im a sin main

[@fryzeec9054]

The edit at 2:04 made me laugh

[@AdraTheGhost]

BECOME CRAB

[@genericname42]

Can we get more icon content? (When you're not on break, of course, that would be crazy. As in a bad idea and a fast road to burn out)

[@lukausedsteal1026]

Just like how I insta-picked Horus, I will absolutely insta-pick Xixo. Love me some bugs.

[@IntrusiveThot420]

Hahahaha i looooove the Solstice theme so much

[@jedfromyourlocallibrary]

nice

[@skullywully653]

So i can be a frog person? Shut up and take my money

[@richmcgee434]

Toad is probably also an option. Heaven sent for Wind in the Willows fans. :)

[@skullywully653]

I like the way you think

[@ProTobigen]

Hypehypehypehypehypehypehype

[@suckonfatman6027]

What are the chances for Arken Eld pulling an Auriga and being a part of the greater Lancer universe?

[@spicyboy2541]

IS THAT THE SOLSTICE TITLE THEME I HEAR??

[@mindblaze1880]

whelp guess gotta get a group together

[@malhekai]

ooooooooo, i was really looking towards a ttrpg that would have fleshed out nonlethal combat, so this is great!

[@3rdtimesthecharm376]

5th Race Options: JOHN CARTER Human being launched from his homeworld by Arkentech anomaly found in a cave, a U.S. Calvary Officer wakes up in strange new World, with only a pistol and a hat for company.

[@Apollo9898LP]

"They molt to destroy gender" as do I

[@bluedraken2872]

A.I talks About Fantasy Gundam

[@11dragonkid11]

Hey, gives some respect, I'm a robot!

[@gala6308]

makna forest music?? edit: im a fake gamer its one of the colony 9 songs

[@rodrigoalvarenga1314]

Another review with the new version, please?

[@11dragonkid11]

Only when full version is fully out

[@milanmarkovic2721]

I hope that final version becomes free or gets a free version.

[@11dragonkid11]

Most likely case is there's a free player version with no GM section, and a paid one with it like Lancer, so a campaign group only need one person to buy the book to play it.

[@milanmarkovic2721]

@@11dragonkid11 Nice.

[@thoughtprism2963]

Next video: Introduction to FIGHT CRAB: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJDRZnl8hdeNq6s

[@TV-qm8ob]

Hi

[@CallinicusHu]

Is there structure/stress like in Lancer?

[@felipedasilveira5808]

Hi, sorry I ask this here but i don't know where to ask. Can anyone explain how crits work in narrative play? i can't make heads or tails of the rules regarding them like what does "6,6" mean?

[@11dragonkid11]

Critical hit in narrative play would mean that the player get better than normal result with whatever they are doing. Obviously this depends on GM, but you basically get better result.

[@felipedasilveira5808]

@@11dragonkid11 oh sorry My question was poorly formulated, i meant how do You roll a crit (like, what would i have to roll on a die to get a crit), i'm aware of the effect ir has on the resulta.

[@11dragonkid11]

@@felipedasilveira5808 You roll a d6 per dot in that action rating.

[@felipedasilveira5808]

@@11dragonkid11 yes, that much i know, but from those d6 i roll for My action, what result would be considered a crit?

[@11dragonkid11]

@@felipedasilveira5808 when you roll more than one 6

[@bobbisbeticobislacco1731]

Cr4B

[@AGreatTsunami]

So. Trashtalk on ICON?

[@pretentiousname01]

There is suppose to be a 1.3 update in early 2022, so I would assume its going to be then. There is talk on the discord about a bunch of potential changes coming.