Solar Worlds

This is my project of putting together a number of campaign settings for Solar System with crunch and suggested focal points, as well as example characters for each setting.

Solar System is made for growth stories, Eero Tuovinen writes in the booklet from Arkenstone Publishing, stories which revolve around the main protagonists. The settings presented in Solar Worlds are meant to serve as raw material and backdrop for those stories. That means one thing that is good to keep in mind while reading this: nothing is more important than the player characters! In fact, nothing in the game's setting even exists until it has entered play and the characters have interacted with it. The setting's sole purpose is to support your playing the game with your chosen protagonists.

The information here has three main functions:

• Form a starting point when the group wants to start up a new campaign, by presenting both an overview of a complete setting or a setting concept as well as one or several focal points within that setting that are described in more detail.
• Serve the Story Guide with elements to throw into the campaign as it runs, including people to introduce as secondary characters and places to frame scenes in.
• Give you a host of material, both fluff and crunch, to mix and match according to your own taste when you form your own, unique setting.

We have written these texts as if they are canonical, “this is the way it is”, because we feel that is the best way to present what we think are really cool settings. But it is important that you remember that nothing we state here carries any weight for your campaign after you have chosen what to play. As soon as you have decided who the player characters are going to be, they are the only canonical in the world; everything around them is undecided until it enters play.

The free colonies of the Sandsmark Sector have been defeated and the federal government is anxious to solidify its rule over these distant parts of the stellar system. Space is huge out here and with faster-than-light travel a mere fantasy it can easily take weeks if not months to get anywhere.

• Key of the Conqueror, Key of the Resistance, Key of Guilt, Key of the Climber, Key of the Builder, Key of Independence, Key of the Clockwork Society
• Secret of the Spaceship, Secret of Contacts, Secret of Sleeper Cells, Secret of Senior Rank, Secret of the Veteran, Secret of the Agent, Secret of Undying Hate

In the shadowy underworld of The City freelance operators run the errands of organized crime as well as megacorporations and political interests. It is a world gone mad, where whiz-kid geniuses build supercomputers from scratch in the slums and elves and orcs walk the streets as regular people, where dragons rule the boardrooms and cyber samurai rule the streets.

• Alternative pools: Flesh, Chrome, and Mana.
• Key of Nearness, Key of Numbness, Key of the Undercover Agent, Key of Higher Purpose, Key of the Burnout, Key of the Nationalist, Key of the Immigrant
• Secret of the Adept, Secret of the Magician, Secret of Cybertech, Secret of Mentor Spirit, Secret of Goblinism, Secret of Elfin Beauty, Secret of Giant Size.

The planet Arcadia is ruled by wilderness, despite the Kingdom of Man's battle for domination of the planet - 40.000 years of battle against the enigmatic High Ones in their towers, against the brutal Trogs that grow like mushrooms in the underground and the deep forests and the Corruption that always threaten to rend the Kingdom apart from inside, against Independencies that refuse the King's tribute and against the hostility of the planet itself.

• Alternative pools: Force, Skill, and Integrity
• Key of Brutality, Key of Kindness, Key of the Scholar, Key of the Templar, Key of the Civilian, Key of the Grunt, Key of the Officer, Key of the Touched, Key of the Corrupted, Key of the Rebel, Key of the Interrogator,
• Secret of the Psychic, Secret of the Templar, Secret of the Specialist,

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