2020 Indie Groundbreaker Nominee Return to the Stars, a tabletop science fiction role playing game, helps players create their own stories in an optimistic space opera setting.
Return to the Stars is designed to allow the creation of characters that evoke the best elements of geek culture. In the far future hyperspace travel gave easy... [click here for more]
The Stellar Beacon is a gaming ‘zine that’s also interested in the broader culture. This issue features:
First Contract: Petram Explore what happens when the first outsiders in over a century visit a thriving world of religious experimentalists, in this adventure for the space opera RPG Return to the Stars.
Sympathetic Magic A complete guide for... [click here for more]
The Stellar Beacon 2: Sci-Fi Gaming and essays on Fanfiction and OptimismThe Stellar Beacon is a zine that supports the sci-fi RPG Return to the Stars with new adventures and which also explores the gamer and geek culture more broadly. This issue includes:
The Undying Elite A scenario for Return to the Stars that examines what the corrupt are willing... [click here for more]
In dark times, games can fill us with joy and hope.
Return to the Stars, a tabletop science fiction role playing game, helps players create their own stories in an optimistic space opera setting.
Return to the Stars is designed to allow the creation of characters that evoke the best elements of geek culture. In the far future hyperspace travel... [click here for more]
The Stellar Beacon is a quarterly zine that supports the sci-fi RPG Return to the Stars with new adventures and which also explores the gamer and geek culture. It includes:
One Atom of Justice, One Molecule of Mercy, and the Empire of Unsheathed Knives an original essay by novelist Alexandra Rowland, exploring a new science fiction sub-genre she identified called Hopepunk.... [click here for more]
Do you miss going to cons?
Me too. That’s why I created “A Fun Time at Con” a story creation game that celebrates gathering with other fans, with the twist that you’re playing space opera heroes arriving back at your post-scarcity utopia after your adventures, and enjoying your shore leave by relaxing at con. It’s a low key “slice of life” game where you co-create a cozy futuristic... [click here for more]
Do you miss going to cons?
Me too. That’s why I created “A Fun Time at Con” a free "print and play" story creation game that celebrates gathering with other fans, with the twist that you’re playing space opera heroes arriving back at your post-scarcity utopia after your adventures, and enjoying your shore leave by relaxing at con. It’s a low key “slice of life” game where you co-create... [click here for more]
The Stellar Beacon is a 'zine that imagines better worlds to explore what could be radically different about our own. We experiment at the intersection of indie gaming and speculative fiction. In this issue you'll find:
The Laughing Sage Play as a mystical trickster who help others to change, overcoming convention to be liberated to a better way of being.
A magic system for... [click here for more]
The Stellar Beacon is a 'zine that imagines better worlds to explore what could be radically different about our own. We experiment at the intersection of indie gaming and speculative fiction. In this issue you'll find: Better Living Through Technology? A seemingly benevolent AI guides this system in conflict. What choices will your players make in this Sci-Fi adventure by Richard... [click here for more]
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