NOMINATED BEST D20 GAME for the 2005 ENNIE AWARDS!
The human spirit shines greatest during the darkest of times. Never was this proven more fully than in the year 2196. With certain doom hurtling toward our planet, the free countries of the world united and prepared for a mass exodus aboard a score of gargantuan transports. But our escape was just the beginning of the adventure. By some freak occurrence, our ship, the Dawning Star, was sent hurtling across the galaxy. We found ourselves alone, cut off from the fleet, in alien territory. It was not in our nature to give up. We found a habitable planet and began our new life. In the intervening years, we have encountered strange new species, overcome dire threats, and taken the first few steps in building a new life.
The Dawning Star Campaign Setting provides everything you need to launch a high-adventure, science-fiction campaign on the planet Eos:
* A full description of the velin, the other primary species on Eos.
* Dozens of talent trees, occupations, skills, feats, species classes, advanced classes, and prestige classes.
* An exhaustive list of equipment, weapons, armor, gear, cybernetic implants, vehicles, and starships.
* Strange, new xenomorphs, including the exotic Eotian fauna, the mysterious tentaari, and the shadow-shrouded vaasi.
* The Eotian lands presented in exacting detail, including maps, regional descriptions, NPCs.
* A full-scale introductory adventure to start your campaign with all the energy of a Davinger Ion Drive.
THE BRIGHTER THE STAR
THE DEEPER THE SHADOW
To the humans, Eos offered a whole new world to explore with all of its challenges, threats, and rewards. But that was just the beginning. The critically acclaimed Dawning Star: Operation Quick Launch introduced the Dawning Star Campaign Setting. In Helios Rising, it explodes with the fury of a thousand suns.
Helios Rising presents the rest of the Helios System in all its glory, from the prison-planet Hephaestus to the steamy jungles of C'thalk to the deserted Tentaari Gateway Station. Each planet is described in exacting detail with extensive new rules uniquely tailored to it:
* A dozen playable PC species, including the fierce saurians, the otherworldly yaom, and the stoic coqui.
* More than 100 adventure seeds, mapped locations, and fully statted NPCs, including the Ice Mines of Poseidon, the treacherous underground world of the Hollow Dark, and Lord Oraton, leader of the Vaasi Assault Clan Ur-Kazzi.
* More than 100 feats, occupations, talent trees, and character classes, including the Wolf Nomads, Mechite Infomongers, and the Blood Guard Warriors of the Saurian Emperor.
* 300+ new weapons, cybernetic implants, nanites, starships, alien relics, mecha, and more gear, including saurian kinai blades, the organic hardware of the haimedians, and singularity rifles.
* A detailed description of Red Truth--a whole new take on psionics, specially developed for a realistic futuristic setting, along with 18 new powers.
* Tons of terrifying new information about the dreaded vaasi, their servitors, their weapons, their culture, and their dark plans for the Helios system.
* Written by the incomparable Lee Hammock and brought to life by the stunning artwork of Danilo Moretti.
* 540 Pages!!!
The siren's call of the Council Ruin beckons relic hunters, xenologists, and the brave. She holds secrets buried away for ages and treasures of which man can only begin to dream. The greatest of all her secrets and the most valuable of all her treasures is an object so powerful an entire civilization fell to protect it. But nothing can stay hidden forever...
In Shadow Falling, the PCs come into possession of a map suggesting that something of great importance lies in the belly of the mysterious Council Ruin, an alien structure that predates the arrival of the humans. As they endeavor to recover the object, they will have to overcome dangerous obstacles, from the rival Black Wheel Gang to the shadow-shrouded vaasi to the ruin's own PL9 defense system. However, if they can retrieve it, and escape with their lives, they will have done a great service to all humankind. Then again, the end is just the beginning.
Shadow Falling is a stand-alone adventure using the Future d20 System for characters of 4th to 6th level. The adventure is set on the planet Eos from the Dawning Star campaign setting, nominated for an ENnie for Best d20 Game. However, it can be used in most any d20 science-fiction setting and includes extensive conversion notes. It also features:
* 6 detailed encounter maps
* A dozen fully described side treks and optional encounters
* 2 full pages of counters to copy and use
* New xenomorphs and alien relics
