Mindjammer: Starblazer Adventures

by Sarah Newton

Mindjammer is a sourcebook for the Starblazer Adventures game set in the strange and distant future of our own planet Earth. It is a cool yet believable science-fiction setting of lost worlds, incredible technologies, and clashing civilizations, drawing upon the far future transhuman space stories by writers like Cordwainer Smith, Iain M. Banks, Dan Simmons, and Peter F. Hamilton. The Mindjammer setting introduces the New Commonality, the nascent interstellar state attempting to dominate the Rediscovery Era, a time when ultra-advanced technologies rub shoulders with lost and regressed worlds. Mindjammer contains exotic races and new careers, sentient starship characters, far future technologies including the interstellar 'Mindscape' and technological psionics, new skills and stunts, new starships, rules for interstellar cultures and cultural conflict, starmaps, worlds and a detailed background of a huge Star Empire and its allies and foes. There's also a complete campaign of four linked scenarios, 'The Black Zone', including spectacular Starblazer action with combat walkers, mass battles, and terrifying alien technologies!

Genres: Role Playing Games, Gaming

160 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2009

About the author

Sarah is a writer of science-fiction and fantasy roleplaying games and fiction. Her works include the cosmic fantasy novel "The Worm Within", the transhuman space opera novel "Mindjammer", and the Award-winning RPG line of the same name using the Fate Core system; the "Zero Point" campaign for the Achtung! Cthulhu RPG; the "Monsters & Magic" RPG; the “Legends of Anglerre” roleplaying game; the "Burn Shift" post-apocalyptic setting for Fate Core; and numerous short stories. She has recently completed her first novel in French (and is in quest of a publisher) and is currently working on an English-language version of the French RPG "Capharnaum" while writing her second French novel. She lives in a field in rural France, from where she occasionally manages a blues-rock band, surrounded by numerous farmyard animals.

Reviews

[Gerall Kahla · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am excited to use the Meme Warfare rules to help generate plots. Great operatic setting!