TABLETOP ROLEPLAYING GAMEHARD SCIENCE FICTION

There are roads
between the stars.

LaneRunner is a science-fiction roleplaying game about crews working beyond the comfortable edge of civilization — navigating unstable routes, corporate interests, failing machinery and the consequences of their own decisions.

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CHART AE 117
01
CHARACTER CREATION

Lifepath

Build a history before you build a stat block.

 02
PLAY TOOL

Character Sheet

Open, edit and export your LaneRunner character.

 03
SYSTEM REFERENCE

Rules

Core mechanics, aptitudes, conditions and references.
01 THE GAME

NOT HEROES. PROFESSIONALS.

You have a ship.
You have a crew.
You have a job.

Humanity survived long enough to scatter itself across stations, moons and nearby systems. The old world is damaged, the new one is fragmented, and every route between them depends on infrastructure somebody has to maintain.

LaneRunners are pilots, engineers, medics, negotiators, scientists and operators who take the work that happens in the gaps — where regulations thin out and simple problems become expensive very quickly.

02 WHAT DEFINES LANERUNNER
01

The crew is the unit

No single character has every answer. Survival depends on overlapping expertise, trust and coordinated decisions.

02

Competence has consequences

Characters are capable professionals, but capability does not erase risk, debt, injury, reputation or political fallout.

03

Science fiction with weight

Ships need propellant. Heat has to go somewhere. Distance matters. Technology is advanced, not magical.

04

The frontier is political

Corporations, station leagues, guilds and states all claim pieces of the future. Neutral space rarely stays neutral for long.

03 START PLAYING

FROM BACKGROUND TO SHEET

Build the person first.
The numbers follow.

The LaneRunner Lifepath walks through origin, youth, education, career and the events that shaped your character. Export the result as a draft and continue directly in the character sheet.

Start the Lifepath
01 ORIGIN Where you started
02 LIFEPATH What happened
03 DRAFT Who emerged
04 SHEET Ready to play
04 THE UNIVERSE

SOL IS ONLY THE BEGINNING

A fractured civilization.
A handful of nearby stars.
Too much empty space.

Explore the factions, stations, colonies, technologies and species that shape the LaneRunner setting.

Explore the universe
READY // CREW MANIFEST OPEN

Your history starts before session one.

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