All the Ashen Stars Stellar Nursery editions have gone out. Here are the last few: The limited edition is awaiting these tokens, which we should have by the end of the month. Other limited editions are available through the Game Preview Event in selected stores.
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Episode 90 of Ron and Veronica Blessing’s The Game’s the Thing podcast focuses on Ashen Stars, with your humble game designer as the guest. Join us as we talk about the game’s premise, genesis, development process and additions to the GUMSHOE toolkit. Also up for discussion are Hamlet’s Hit Points, why players only think they […]
Aldo of Impressions Advertising, together with Pelgrane Press other ImpAdv clients are helping proactive retailers garner preorders for forthcoming products, and giving retailer customers get a taster of games which aren’t yet out. Aldo has started Game Preview Events, and Pelgrane Press is the guinea pig. Aldo has been running FreePRGDay for years now, and […]
We have a very few copies of the Ashen Stars Limited Leatherette edition left, now available to all from the Pelgrane store.
Limited Edition ordering is now open to everyone at the store. Edit: The Ashen Stars limited edition email has gone out. If you have problems with the url, please try again. There was a little slip up over file naming. If you haven’t had your email, please contact me. In the next couple of hours, […]
Limited edition ordering is now open to everyone at the Pelgrane Press store. We are making one hundred copies of this limited leatherette edition of Ashen Stars. Fifty of these are available exclusively to Ashen Stars pre-orderers, and they’ll include ten exclusive Ashen Stars tokens for starship combat. We’ll pick one from the image below. […]
Continuing a basic GUMSHOE motif, Ashen Stars encourages GMs to find inspirations for scenarios in the news of the day. In so doing, it follows in the issue-oriented footsteps of the Star Trek franchise, the Battlestar Galactica reboot, and the general observation that all science fiction is really about the present. For example, you might […]
Earlier I talked about the way every SF game calls for a unique setting, whether the designer likes it or not, because there isn’t a complete enough assumptions set to present a default universe. Ashen Stars creates its setting to serve the action. This of course is how a creator in a non-interactive story form […]