A hurdle any SF RPG faces is the lack of default setting assumptions. From the earliest days of D&D, we have been accustomed to a portmanteau fantasy world. This hybrid creature sprang from the experimental vats of the wizards Gygax and Arneson, combining the Howard sword and sorcery and Tolkien epic literary fantasy modes into […]
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Download the character creation chapter and part of the GM’s Advice for Ashen Stars.
Edit: The Stellar Pre-Order window is closed. However, you can pre-order Ashen Stars for delivery in August, and get the PDF and Robin Laws fiction now. Read more about the perks available with the Stellar Nursery edition here. Incidentally, if you’ve ordered the Stellar Nursery edition, you might like to know that anyone who spots […]
My original brief for Ashen Stars spacehip combat was that all PCs should be involved, regardless of their position in the crew. That element was retained, but starship combat was substantially altered in playtest. Read more on Robin’s blog…
The Ashen Stars Stellar Nursery Edition pre-order window is closed, but you can pre-order Ashen Stars and get the PDF now, hardback in August from the Store. Download the character creation chapter and part of the GM’s Advice. This is what you get, at the price of a standard copy ($44.95): Now – the finished […]
A second review of the Ashen Stars stellar nursery edition (8 out 10 based on pre-release layout) on rpg.net. Well-designed game in the GUMSHOE line, a bit like Traveller or Serenity (in that you have a PC-owned ship with a PC crew) but rather than flying from port to port trading, the focus is picking […]
A review of the Ashen Stars pre-order edition here. The delight in the setting is that it is constructed from the ground up to suit role-playing, unlike any licensed property would be. … The fact is this perennial problem [spaceship combat] has been solved in Ashen Stars. … That the art released so far looks […]
Chris Huth has been working on Ashen Stars art which matches with Jérome’s. First, some shuttles. Our playtesters seemed to have a thing about shuttles, so Robin obliged them by putting in some streamlined shuttle rules and three shuttle configurations, illustrated here. This is a rough. Chris also illustrated the Jaggar…
Another sneak peak at an Ashen Stars species, bought to life by Jerome. The Tavak At an average seven feet in height and topping the scales at close to half a ton, you are a tavak, the most physically robust of the seven peoples. Descended from armadillo-like creatures of your homeworld, Tav, you are covered […]