Mandate Archive: Martial Arts

From the scattered databases of the fallen Terran Mandate comes the second in a sequence of supplementary files for Stars Without Number, the free OSR retro-influenced game of science-fiction adventure. Sample this free file and learn how to add esoteric martial arts styles to your game and equip your PCs with the arts of the open hand.

Contained in this file, you'll find...

Mandate Archive: The Dust

The Terran Mandate was forced to let the frontier worlds go when the expansion of the Second Wave sent too many colonists too far from the core's organs of control. The Directorate did not intend to make that mistake a second time. The Dust was their solution- a planet-wide mist of microscopic nanites, conduits for the unblinking gaze of the AI Maestros...   [click here for more]

Skyward Steel: Naval Campaigns for Stars Without Number

The captain standing on the bridge, wreathed in smoke and the cries of the dying. The chief engineer, struggling to force that last precious burst of power from the fusion plant. The Marine sergeant holding fast in the hatchway, death to the alien boarders. The cold-eyed admiral, choosing the slain by the turn of a word and her orders to her bait....   [click here for more]

Swords of Almuric: Classic D&D Edition

Almuric......a savage world where barbaric ape men are locked in eternal battle with winged marauders......a primeval world where titanic beasts roam plains and hills and implacable predators stalk the forests of the night......a mysterious world where alien ruins raised by races lost  in the depths of time loom against an unforgiving sky......a desperate world...   [click here for more]