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RPG Review – Stars Without Number Revised Edition – Bad Wrong Fun
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Note: Apologies to anyone looking forward to a new Thursdays in Thracia this week. Anywhere someone asks for sci-fi game recommendations online, Stars Without Number is mentioned quickly and frequently in the responses. This year, after a successful Kickstarter, Crawford released a revised edition of the game, making a variety of changes and updates, big and small. Depending on your taste, stars without number revised edition pdf download, that is either a huge selling point or a huge turnoff.
The game uses this core as a familiar starting point, but drifts the mechanics in interesting ways to provide a vast amount of potential. By foregoing a unified mechanic for all situations, Stars makes combat situations and character skill use feel distinctly different. Stars Without Number is old-school in a lot ways, but it really shows its colors in the deadliness of its combat.
Starting characters, especially ones not specialized in combat, can be paper thin, and a lucky shot from some pirate mook with a laser pistol can absolutely kill one of them. Fortunately, guns are just one tool in a massive box of tools that Stars Without Number gives players to solve their problems.
While the game only has three core character classes for players to choose from, which seems limiting, each class is actually extremely flexible due to the skills available, and to Foci, a wide range of specific abilities and maneuvers with which players can customize their characters. Thus the Warrior class covers any character archetype focused primarily on combat, and there is room for everything from grizzled space marines to unarmed monks to special-ops snipers to axe wielding barbarians from a forsaken planet.
The Psychic and Specialist classes each offer an even greater range of freedom. Starship combat is notoriously difficult to get right in games, and the system in Stars Without Number is designed to keep everyone involved each turn, without bogging the players and GM down in layers of uninteresting crunch. Essentially, each function of the ship is overseen by a player character. So one PC is flying the thing, while another fires the guns, another operates electronics and sensors, etc.
and each can have an impact on the fight and support each other. One thing I appreciate is that range and position are completely abstracted.
No range bands, no flanking, no visual representation of any kind necessary. The Stars Without Number core rulebook is relatively light on setting history and lore for a book of its size. Over just few pages, it describes a future-history of humanity leaving earth to colonize the stars, then suffering a major catastrophe that breaks up their vast interstellar empire. In the assumed present-day of the game, individual worlds in human-colonized space, isolated from each other for hundreds of years, are just reaching back out and coming stars without number revised edition pdf download again.
The default setting is designed, as much as any other part of the game, to be a tool. Different worlds have different technology levels, so your game can look like anything, from Firefly to Alien to Star Trekstars without number revised edition pdf download, and be accommodated fictionally.
Using the optional rules for more heroic characters found in the paid version of the book, you could even run a Star Wars style science fantasy game with little trouble. The most interesting features in Stars Without Stars without number revised edition pdf download are the tools it gives the Game Master to set up stars without number revised edition pdf download run a science fiction sandbox game. This kind of play style emphasizes player agency, but can be a huge burden on the GM to prepare.
To support creating and running a sandbox, Stars Without Number has two major systems for the GM: the Sector Creation system and the Faction system. In sector creation, the GM can follow a step by step process involving random tables to create a hex map representing a sector of space.
So you might have a world with the tags M egacorporations and Great Projectwhich indicate a world ruled by massive corporations, stars without number revised edition pdf download, but one on which the whole population is devoted to some massive undertaking.
In my campaign, the above tag combination is a cyberpunk world of hyper-dense cities completely sealed off from the exterior, because the planet is an uninhabitable ball of burning rock, too close to its sun.
The corporations are all competitors, of course, but all of them also pay in to a massive project to reverse-engineer and rebuild one of the old jump gates from before the cataclysm. The Faction system is a whole detailed mini game that the GM can play by themselves between sessions in which you create the major factions in the sector, give them actual stats, and play out their conflicts using units and strategies called Assets.
Along with world tags, the faction turn provides a great engine for session to session adventures as well. In my campaign, the players are friends with an NPC who is a member of an uprising against the nobility on a particular planet.
Down the line, the rules even suggest letting high-level or retired PCs lead factions of their own. This kind of thing can really make a game for me, especially in a sandbox style. For all its brilliance as a science fiction toolkit rules set, I wish Stars Without Number were a bit more inspired as a physical product.
The art in the book is fine for the most part, and occasionally cheesy or weirdly static. The font chosen for the headings feels like a free font picked from a drop-down menu because it was the most generally science-fictiony. Still, the book is a large, full-color hardcover, and it is nice to have at the table. As what is becoming one of my favorite games, I wish it just made more of a statement. Other than that, I find the table of contents a little too broad, and occasionally find myself digging through paragraphs of text to find important rules that could have been called out a little better.
Lastly, I want nothing more for this game than a completely redesigned character sheet. For a game that is relatively simple on the player-facing side, the character sheet is a crowded, unintuitive jumble of information.
Perhaps the most amazing thing about it is that it is basically free as a PDF. The paid version of the game includes a few stars without number revised edition pdf download add-ons, like rules for mechs, transhuman games, wizards in space, and building detailed societies, but other than that the free PDF version is absolutely a complete and identical set of rules.
Check them out, and if you like what you see and want more, or if you just need a physical book at the table, grab the full version. Stars Without Number Revised : Free Version. Stars Without Number Revised : Deluxe Version. Thanks for writing this review. This is a great review. As one who loves long form text articles, I thank you.
In my heart of hearts, I think I want to steal the fluff from Eclipse Phase and use the SWON system. Skip to content Note: Apologies to anyone looking forward to a new Thursdays in Thracia this week. Illustration from Stars Without Number The Setting The Stars Without Number core rulebook is relatively light on setting history and lore for a book of its size, stars without number revised edition pdf download. Game Mastering The most interesting features in Stars Without Number are the tools it gives the Game Master to set up and run a science fiction sandbox game.
An illustration of some badasses fighting a thing in a corridor while their friend hacks. From Stars without number revised edition pdf download Without Number. The Book For all its brilliance as a science fiction toolkit rules set, I wish Stars Without Number were a bit more inspired as a physical product. If you really want inspiration for running Stars Without Number, look at paintings by John Harris for a while.
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