StarCluster 4 Toolbox 4 - Characters Released

Also released a new StarCluster 4 Toolbox - Toolbox 5 - Characters. This covers a lot of Character-oriented stuff, like: Pre-birth augmentation Martial Arts for Characters Custom Chargen Template Trees Character Hobbies Cosmetic Implants and More!

in print from Lulu - http://www.lulu.com/shop/clash-bowley-and-albert-bailey-and-klaxon-bowley/starcluster-4-toolbox-5-characters/paperback/product-22980480.html

in pdf from Precis Intermedia - http://www.pigames.net/store/product_info.php?products_id=855

in pdf from One Book Shelf - http://www.rpgnow.com/product/200184/Starcluster-4--Toolbox-5-Characters

StarCluster 4 - Out of the Ruins Released

Released a new game today! StarCluster 4 - Out of the Ruins. Out of the Ruins is a new game set in a new universe. The Humans are gone, and the New Humans and a bunch of other successor species are trying to expand. It features a tech much like today's, but with FTL-accelerated Atomic Rockets. Oh! And their Holy Book is The Silmarillion.

For print at Lulu - http://www.lulu.com/shop/clash-bowley-and-klaxon-bowley/starcluster-4-out-of-the-ruins/paperback/product-22980442.html

For pdf at Precis Intermdia - http://www.pigames.net/store/product_info.php?products_id=854

For pdf at One Book Shelf - http://www.rpgnow.com/product/200180/StarCluster-4--Out-of-the-Ruins?term=Out+of+the+ruins&cPath=339_3956&test_epoch=0

StarCluster 4 - Out of the Ruins IRC Game

So, next weekend I start a second StarCluster 4 - Out Of The Ruins game, this one on Sundays over IRC. After the new year I will be switching between that and our extremely long running Classic Setting IRC game every other Sunday. I have been running this game since 2003, through StarCluster 1E, 2E, 3E, and now 4th Edition.

In the Out of the Ruins game, we will be doing an exploration game of a new solar system. The Association has bought up an old license to explore the Valinor system and now the PCs are going to interpret it widely and creatively to use it to explore the new Numenor system on the cheap, while the official Church sponsored expedition is hitting cost overruns and production delays.. :D

In the Classic game, we are playing the four grown up heirs to our old Beginner's Luck crew, three years after the crew disappears - they "mis-jumped" into Jeshen Space, and have no idea how to get back! The four girls were rescued from a life as age-retarded sex workers - they were given a drug at a very early age that slowed their aging, and looked 12 when they were over 18 - and adopted by the crew. The were in their second year at college when the Luck disappeared. Now they have graduated, and are about to unleash themselves on the world.

StarCluster 4 - Out of the Ruins - NeoDogs

So, NeoDogs. I was originally going to have only one kind of dog uplift in StarCluster 4 - Out of the Ruins, but... Dogs are so... Malleable. Protean. Klaxon convinced me to open that up. All NeoDogs are the same species, but they voluntarily create breeds - or most of them do. More on that later. Breeds emphasize one aspect of the dog so they become very different. We went for six breeds - Two big dogs - English Mastiffs and Irish Wolfhounds, two medium breeds - Malamutes and Border Collies, and two small breeds - Terriers and Corgis. Each one has a separate species sheet.

Now for the 'almost all' bit. Some NeoDogs refuse to breed this way. They have become a separate people. Still NeoDogs, but refusing to play the past of the faithful companion to New Humans, insisting on breeding naturally, going their own way. This seventh non-breed are called - in accordance with the Tolkien theme - Wargs. Wargs are mutts - tending to the median, the wolfish unspecialized dog look. Wargs are fiercely independent, and make no compromises.

Here's a Terrier NeoDog for your enjoyment!

StarCluster 4 - Out of the Ruins Campaign

My Out of the Ruins campaign got off to an excellent start Saturday! Four characters, each one of the Ea Clade - a NeoDog, a Corvoid, a Roo, and a New Human - are partners, running an Eldar relic hunting business, which they have just sold to Weyland-Yutani. Now they work for the company they started, because they enjoy the work. They are searching the planet Varda - once inhabited by the Eldar, but now heavily glaciated - for relics of their former masters. These relics are technological items - the Eldar were incredibly advanced before they disappeared. Anyway, they are looking for areas to search that are not all picked over, reasoning that the choice stuff will be in these pockets. The session sent very well. The four partners are all interesting characters, and their relationships are also interesting! This should be a lot of fun! :D

StarCluster 4 - Out of the Ruins Campaign

My Out of the Ruins campaign got off to an excellent start Saturday! Four characters, each one of the Ea Clade - a NeoDog, a Corvoid, a Roo, and a New Human - are partners, running an Eldar relic hunting business, which they have just sold to Weyland-Yutani. Now they work for the company they started, because they enjoy the work. They are searching the planet Varda - once inhabited by the Eldar, but now heavily glaciated - for relics of their former masters. These relics are technological items - the Eldar were incredibly advanced before they disappeared. Anyway, they are looking for areas to search that are not all picked over, reasoning that the choice stuff will be in these pockets. The session sent very well. The four partners are all interesting characters, and their relationships are also interesting! This should be a lot of fun! :D

StarCluster 4 - Out of the Ruins Cover

Finished the cover for StarCluster 4 - Out of the Ruins tonight! Enjoy!