Ashen Stars

Ashen Stars is a gritty space opera role-playing game by Robin Laws, published by Pelgrane Press in 2011.[1] It uses the GUMSHOE rules system. The characters are freelance troubleshooters working in the remote region known as the Bleed.

Reception

Ashen Stars was a 2011 nominee for the Origins Award for best role-playing game.[2]

John ONeill of Black Gate comments: "Drawing heavily upon his successful GUMSHOE mystery system, author Robin D. Laws has created an extremely appealing game of space opera procedural mysteries. In the tradition of the best hard boiled detective fiction, players are constantly scrambling for money, equipment, and respect... all of which they'll need to succeed in a war-ravaged perimeter where trust is a precious commodity, and very little is truly what it seems."[3]

gollark: Actually, it's just orbital mind control lasers at low power.
gollark: I dislike the fact that this person apparently doesn't know how screenshots work.
gollark: Oh, this is part of an implementation of a blockchain for some reason? Interesting.
gollark: Oh, Jupyter, right. Still weird.
gollark: Is that Colab or something? Why are they using that for sharing documents?

References
  1. Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  2. RPG Geek profile of Ashen Stars
  3. "Black Gate » Articles » New Treasures: Ashen Stars by Robin D. Laws". www.blackgate.com. Retrieved 2016-09-03.
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