Shadow Star RPG

A galaxy at war. A regime that calls domination stability. A Power capable of magnifying both courage and corruption.

Shadow Star RPG adapts the fast, dangerous, exploration-focused rules of Shadowdark RPG for space opera adventures. Characters can be insurgents, soldiers, smugglers, bounty hunters, spies, pilots, or Mystic Adepts facing occupations, cartels, ancient ruins, and corrupting threats.

The result is a low-prep game of difficult choices and direct action, with rules for personal confrontations, infiltration, chases, space battles, and travel between worlds.

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A Galaxy Under the Dominium

The Dominium controls hyperspace routes, fleets, taxes, and local governments in the name of security and continuity. The Confederation resists, insurgent cells operate with limited resources, and ancient Kharvani houses struggle for power within and beyond the regime.

Paladins preserve traditions of discipline and service, while the Cult of Chaos teaches that fear, pain, and domination are legitimate paths to power. The Power has no moral side of its own: the choices of those who wield it lead to protection, sacrifice, or Corruption.

What You'll Find

• 18 playable species, each with distinctive features and direct applications during adventures.
• 4 classes: Soldier, Commander, Mystic Adept, and Specialist.
• 20 backgrounds and 4 quick starting packages for creating characters without delay.
• 40 Mystic Powers divided into 5 tiers, plus rules for concentration, resistance, mishaps, Corruption, and purification.
• 37 weapons, grenades, and explosives, including blasters, vibro-weapons, plasma blades, and heavy military equipment.
• 7 armor types and 53 items, tools, suits, and simple robots for exploration, infiltration, survival, and repairs.
• 25 vehicles and starships: 10 ground or atmospheric vehicles and 15 starships, from grav-bikes and freighters to cruisers and super-battleships.
• 30 enemy stat blocks, including troops, criminals, robots, alien beasts, corrupted adepts, and major setting threats.
• 6 encounter tables with 36 results for space stations, military bases, urban underworlds, abandoned facilities, wild planets, and mystic sanctuaries.

Rules for Space Adventures

The book adds only what is needed to take Shadowdark to the stars. It includes practical rules for cover, crossfire, ammunition, vehicle combat, crew roles, shields, damage, conditions, chases, travel, repairs, hyperspace jumps, and capital ships used as adventure sites.

The rules preserve the core principles of Shadowdark: fragile characters, dangerous combat, limited resources, exploration under pressure, and decisions that matter more than the character sheet.

Format

• 89-page digital PDF.
• Print-ready and form-fillable character sheets designed for Shadow Star RPG.
• Version 1.0.

Important: this material was created for use with Shadowdark RPG. For rules not redefined in this book, refer to the core Shadowdark rules.

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Shadow Star RPG is an independent product published under the Shadowdark RPG Third-Party License and is not affiliated with The Arcane Library, LLC. Shadowdark RPG © 2023 The Arcane Library, LLC.