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STARSET
RPG

THE GREAT DIMMING.

A tabletop RPG of hope, horror, and the grimdark future. Play everyday souls fighting for purpose as the solar system ends at the collapse of the Oort Cloud.

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YOUR CHARACTER

A fearless agent of change or an exhausted victim of the machine. Create your character using a semi-randomized lifepath system. Over 420 unique backstory plot points make for infinite possible backstories that seamlessly equip a character with skills, items, abilities, and plot connections. In Starset, players don't create characters; you discover them.

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RULES

Starset RPG utilizes a unique d6 dice pool system where characters' dice double as action economy and HP. As health dwindles, so do actions, and players must decide whether to spend dice on quick, frantic actions or few, focused moves. Rolled dice produce checks, and the total checks rolled are compared against a character's skill to determine success or failure.

Starset also utilizes a simultaneous action resolution system, where actions targeting opponents or objects become "hanging" and are resolved later in the turn order. This allows other characters, and opponents, a chance to aid, interfere, or defend, which creates a dynamic, strategy-rich combat system.

LORE

Starset takes place at humanity's twilight. The Oort Cloud collapses on the solar system, triggering an apocalyptic reaction from the populous, now cut off from all hope of escape or exploration. The game's 16 factions represent core human behaviors that are, normally, good--but become evil when deified. Science, ego, humanism, hard work, profit, faith, loyalty, and lust become the taskmasters under which humanity is enslaved.

Submit your own Starset lore and vote in Starset's monthly Milestones to decide how the evolving world changes!

The Starset RPG Universe is inspired by Dune, Arcane, and Game of Thrones in a loosely realistic, near-future. Titanic religions, corporations, and politicians clash across the solar system in loosely-veiled political maneuvers. Starset is designed (and carefully re-designed in this second edition) to place characters in a worldview crisis. Players are helpless individuals—faces in the crowd—who are caught in the grinding gears of powerplays and profiteering and forced to find a simple answer to a hard question: Can things ever change?

STARSET RPG

THE GREAT DIMMING.

YOUR CHARACTER

STARSET
RPG