A campaign setting for Alternity.
Hello fellow gamers and welcome to this the first of many campaign settings for TSR/Wizards of the Coasts exiting new game Alternity. Here you will find many details, backgrounds and histories that make up the worlds of the computer game Starcraft the best selling game from Blizzard Entertainment. A word of warning is in order before we go any further. Starcraft and all likeness from the game are the sole copyright of Blizzard Entertainment and no intention on breach of said copyright is intended in anyway, shape or form.
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A little about the computer game.
Starcraft is the third game from Blizzard Entertainment that uses a real time strategy engine, the first two being the hugely successful Warcraft series. Starcraft is set in the not too distant future when mankind has left his home planet in search of new territories to carve out. But on the way mistakes happened and some of the colony ships got cut off from the rest of the explorers and drifted across the timeless gulf of space and ended up billions of miles from home. With no way back the explorers had nothing else to do but set a new life in this remote system and within a few short years a fully functional and independent government was formed, ruling the new planets that fell under its shadow.
Many didn't like this fact and soon rebellion was rife and civil war was about to break loose. Then it happened!
For countless millennia mankind has asked the question ‘Are we alone?’ Now to our shock and horror we where about to discover that we weren’t and would soon wish we was.
Contact with the first alien race was bloody and devastating with the creatures we came to call the Zerg running riot and killing hundreds of colonists before they had chance to retaliate. The Zerg where as alien to us and our way of thinking as we are to amoeba, and are nothing short of deadly killing machines driven by an unseen hive conciseness relentlessly onwards.
Another alien race made its appearance shortly after the first contact with the Zerg. The Protoss, an ancient alien race far older than mankind and capable of bending reality to their immense will, proved to be just as large a threat to mankind as the Zerg, and with man fighting against his fellow man, could the alien menace sound the death knell of humanity.
TH
E RACESMankind. No longer a stranger and alone in the universe. Full history, timeline, and careers for human player characters. Plus non player characters for the Gamesmaster to use in this setting such as Jim Rayner.
A concept so alien to man that one could go insane from examining it. The Zerg are a powerful race, driven by a force as powerful as nature itself, the Zerg are not to be dismissed lightly. Full racial description of the powerful creatures we call Zerg, with details on their history, ships, and weapons and the tactics they use in battle. Perhaps a little too powerful for player characters but excellent as tools for the Gamesmaster.
A race that was travelling the stars before mankind could walk upright. The Protoss are masters of Psionics and can use their own minds to warp reality to suit their alien needs. Playing a non human character can be a challenge to some gamers and the Protoss will prove to be just that to many. Here for use in your campaigns are the history, weapons, ships and tactics of the Protoss and templates to play them in Alternity.
A ready to play adventure. Contact with the small outpost had been cut off for over a month and a small team of operatives, hand picked are sent to investigate. The full adventure, with characters, npcs maps and everything you will need to play.
