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Fading Suns

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technology level not much more advanced than 21st century Earth, and a number of alien threats lurk in the shadows. Pushing at the borders of the Known Worlds lurk the mutangenic horror of the Symbiots, the ancient and enigmatic Vau, and the barbarian empires of the Kurgan and the Vuldrok, all waiting for their chance to throw humanity into darkness and chaos.
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liked the sombre setting, but criticized the task resolution system: "Inexplicably, the designers pile on the numbers, adding stuff like effect dice, effect numbers, and complementary actions, all of which are intended to make task resolution more realistic, but just make it more confusing." But Swan
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Two separate types of occult abilities exist within the game universe: psychic powers and Theurgy. Psychic powers manifest, generally, from the practitioners' own mental abilities. Psionicists, castigated as 'demon worshippers' and heretics, are often hunted down and killed by the Church, or enrolled
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The action is set in the Known Worlds, a future medieval-analogue empire built on the remains of a previous, more sophisticated human space-faring civilization made possible by ancient "jumpgates". The jumpgates are relics left by the mysterious Anunnaki, an ancient civilization (or civilizations)
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Players can take the role of either a member of a Noble House, of one of the various merchant guilds, or a member of one of the numerous religious sects. A number of alien species, most notably the human-like 'psychic' Ukar and Obun, and the six-limbed, bestial Vorox, are also available as player
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Description: Chapter 1 - Game Mastering; Chapter 2 - Hazard; Chapter 3 - Antagonists; Chapter 4 - Fiefs & Planets; Chapter 5 - Hawkwood Fiefs; Chapter 6 - al-Malik Fiefs; Chapter 7 - Hazat Fiefs; Chapter 8 - Li Halan Fiefs; Chapter 9 - Decados Fiefs; Chapter 10 - Imperial Fiefs; Chapter 11 -
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and, according to Shannon Appelcline, people noticed this game's similarity to the "White Wolf style". Appelcline comments further: "Fading Suns is unique mainly for its distinctive setting. It is a hard science-fiction game, but much of the universe has fallen back to Medieval technology: noble
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engine uses a simple attribute and skill, level and classless, single d20-powered system, called the Victory Point System (VPS). The second edition of the game's rules solved many issues raised by the earlier rule book, while increasing the amount of data available. The current Revised Edition
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While most role-playing situations arise from the strict codes regulating the everyday life of the empire's citizens, the Imperial Age is rife with opportunities for adventure. Following the fall of the old regime, and centuries of darkness and warfare, most worlds have slipped backward to a
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A large library of supplements provides descriptions of locales (planets, space stations, whole sections of space), alien societies, minor houses, guilds and sects, monsters and secret conspiracies, thus expanding the thematic possibilities offered by the setting.
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in the Church's ranks (after a good bit of 're-training'). Theurgy is a kind of ordained divine sorcery practiced by the Church through various approved rites and is capable of producing miracles, often by calling on the assistance of various saints and angels.
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Description: Three dramas for Fading Suns provide the backdrop to the beginnings of an uprising in the Known Worlds. The al-Malik world of Criticorum is highlighted, with each drama taking place on the planet itself, or within the star
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Description: this sourcebook contains reprinted and refreshed material from "Forbidden Lore: Technology", as well as new technological items, ranging from alien technology to weird tech to new weapons and
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Description: Mostly identical to Second Edition main rulebook. The layout was changed slightly, the index was expanded, important tables were gathered and printed in an appendix. Another adventure (called
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supplements with dual sets of statistics to use them for both d20 and their own "Victory Point System". Over the next few years Holistic announced that they were working on a third edition of
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Description: this adventure takes the characters from a private auction to the turbulent atmosphere of Gargantua in search of a lost treasure, but the treasure has ideas of its own.
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which seem to have influenced the evolution of lesser species, such as humans, for their own end, and waged a devastating war many millennia ago using them as tools and weapons.
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Authors: Todd Bogenrief, Vidar Edland, Richard Ashley, Thomas Baroli, Brandon van Buren, Phil Cameron, Tristan Lhomme, Ruben Ramos, Mark Stout, James Sutton, Dennis Watson, and
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Description: this adventure leads the characters into barbarian space in search of a lost heirloom, but the situation is complicated by being the strangers in a strange land.
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Power is administered by five major Noble Houses, five major guilds within the Merchants League, and six major sects of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun.
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In October 2020 Kickstarter backers received the electronic version of the new "Character Book", the new "Gamemaster Book" and the new "Intrigues and Escapades".
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Description: Similar in places to the Fading Suns Second Edition, with rules extensively re-written (especially combat rules). Updates and additions throughout.
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to Ulisses Spiele, who announced they were planning a new edition, with products published in both English and German. FASA Games retained the license for
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Description: compiles and updates the previously released PDF adventures Dead End, Ruinous Folly, Kraken's Loom, and A Road So Dark into one volume.
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While generally stereotypical in their template-like form, characters are easily personalized through either life path or points-buy systems.
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houses, guilds and a monolithic church control most of the power in the universe. Many people compare the universe to that of Frank Herbert's
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was well supported with supplements for a few years and in that time the line sold well. Holistic released the table-top miniatures game
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On November 1, 2016, Holistic Design announced that Ulisses Spiele GmbH has taken over publishing the Fading Suns roleplaying game.
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to use their world building experience to create a universe for the game, which would also be used as the setting for a tabletop
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In August 2020 Kickstarter backers received the electronic version of the new Fading Suns 3rd edition "Universe Book".
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Description: this adventure takes the characters from a religious ceremony, to an obscure plot of murder and intrigue
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Description: this details the Church planets Artemis, Holy Terra, Pentateuch, De Moley, and Pyre
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to be released simultaneously. Greenberg and Bridges had previously helped define the style of
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Description: an adventure about a previously unknown jumproute between two stellar systems.
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A fourth edition of Fading Suns is in development, helmed by original writer Bill Bridges.
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later that year. In 2014 FASA Games announced they would be releasing a new version of
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liked the rest of the game, and gave it a rating of 5 out of 6, saying, "Although
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Authors: Bill Bridges, Alan Bryden, Brian Campbell, Andrew Greenberg,
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Editors: Alex Wichert, Carsten Damm, Kathy Schad, James D. Flowers
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rules and would have explored different periods in the history of
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Fading Suns Game Master's Guide - Revised Edition Core Rulebook
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as well as new games which would have been designed using the
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In 2020 Ulisses started a Kickstarter for several new books.
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Fading Suns Player's Guide - Revised Edition Core Rulebook.
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as a spaceship combat game intended to compatible with
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In 2000, an adaptation of the setting to the popular 3
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Designers
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Holistic Design, Inc.
Science fiction
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Holistic Design
Emperor of the Fading Suns
live action role-playing
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Machiavelli the Prince
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