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<blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 5771030" data-attributes="member: 2">If you have any interest in investigation, I can't say enough good things about Ashen Stars from Pelgrane. Even if you ignore the actual rules, the setting from Robin Laws is full of ideas you can steal.<a href="http://www.pelgranepress.com/?p=2330" target="_blank">Pelgrane Press Ltd&nbsp; Blog Archive&nbsp; Ashen Stars</a>&nbsp; The pdf is half the price of the book. Either is (IMO) worth the cost.I like to describe the setting as &quot;Firefly, if Jayne was a 7' tall 4-armed alien locust.&quot; The PCs are freelance law enforcement out on the fringe of space. The former galactic combine is in ruins after a brutal alien war, and the PCs are left to help fend for the planets out on the galaxy's fringe. I've been running a convention game using this setting since GenCon, and I'm more than a little bit in love with it. There's 7 playable races; cybernetics and genetically engineered designer viruses that temporarily grant psychic effects; a system for spaceship combat that includes everyone in the crew, not just the pilot; and extensive character customization. Ashen Stars uses a tweaked version of GUMSHOE as its engine, designed to make the PCs exceptionally capable investigators. Recommended.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Piratecat, post: 5771030, member: 2"] If you have any interest in investigation, I can't say enough good things about Ashen Stars from Pelgrane. Even if you ignore the actual rules, the setting from Robin Laws is full of ideas you can steal. [url=http://www.pelgranepress.com/?p=2330]Pelgrane Press Ltd Blog Archive Ashen Stars[/url] The pdf is half the price of the book. Either is (IMO) worth the cost. I like to describe the setting as "Firefly, if Jayne was a 7' tall 4-armed alien locust." The PCs are freelance law enforcement out on the fringe of space. The former galactic combine is in ruins after a brutal alien war, and the PCs are left to help fend for the planets out on the galaxy's fringe. I've been running a convention game using this setting since GenCon, and I'm more than a little bit in love with it. There's 7 playable races; cybernetics and genetically engineered designer viruses that temporarily grant psychic effects; a system for spaceship combat that includes everyone in the crew, not just the pilot; and extensive character customization. Ashen Stars uses a tweaked version of GUMSHOE as its engine, designed to make the PCs exceptionally capable investigators. Recommended. [/QUOTE]

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