The Kickstarter is now live!!
An unraveled dream of new worlds turned nightmare; lost in the deep beyonds, the Warden is your home, your world, your end.
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Run Down #1: The Starship Warden is lost to us! It's up to you to find it! Dock your ship here and plunge in, the madness has begun! Join the fray today and receive a DIGITAL copy of James M. Ward's Magical Complexities, magic items created by James M. Ward at the table of Gary Gygax and in the company of so many founders of the hobby we love so much...
Near the beginning of the 24th century, humans began the largest construction ever undertaken by their species. Larger than most cities, the project was forty-nine miles long, twenty-four miles wide, and more than six miles in height. The manufacture of this colossus required decades of labor by thousands of skilled craftsmen. It was a feat unequaled in human history at that time. Too large to be manipulated in planetary atmosphere and gravity, this behemoth was built in orbit. It was developed to provide safety for more than a million souls and was to be filled with myriad forms of life.
Packed with the latest technology available at the time, the starship was capable of 90% of the speed of light. A trip to Alpha Centauri was but a mere 6 years. A host of other systems were well within reach, and this vessel was to take humanity to the stars. The planning for this mission was meticulous, the courage of her crew unquestionable, and the hopes of mankind ever present. She was named the Warden after her designer, and she set off for the stars in the late 24th century.
Less than two decades into her mission, she simply disappeared. There has now been no word of the Warden for more than 300 years....
The Starship Warden is a sandbox adventure setting written by James M. Ward and Christopher Clark. It is intended for use with the StarSiege RPG, a Siege Engine game, (Free with this Kickstarter). But, if you are loyal to the old MA, don't despair, the Starship Warden is written to allow you to use your original Metamorphis Alpha Rules and begin a lifetime worth of play. The Starship Warden is a 650+ page black and white, hard cover book that will retail for $74.99, the digital version of the book will retail at $20.00. An interstellar starship, set adrift, with 17 monstrous decks to explore, hordes of creatures and mutants, treasures both fantastic and scientific, it is a world within a ship. A setting like no other.
All 17 Fully detailed Decks with all environmental conditions
The dome, or 18th level
16 Levels set between the decks
Legacy Humans the descendants of the original crew
Cryogenically frozen humans
Mutated Plants and animals
Surviving but evolved species
Robots, Androids and new tech
A host of maps (18 deck and dome maps, 16 crawlway maps and scores of smaller maps
Monsters and mutants
Weapons and equipment
The Crawl-ways
The Starship Warden is a project long in the works. Originally the Starship appeared in James M. Ward's Metamorphis Alpha RPG, published in the bygone days of the 1970s. It has seen many iterations since then. Appearing in countless books and pubs, however, it has never been presented fully fleshed out and as its creator, James Ward, envisioned it.
Now, for the first time, decades after its creation, The Starship Warden comes to life in all its 17 levels and as its master architect designed it.
Help us launch this world within a ship.
The Starship Warden is written and laid out. We'll comb through it one more time and do some superficial content work on it, but the book only needs printing.
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