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The adventure pamphlets has three very short linked adventures. The player characters are members of "the [[Alliance]]", a [[protoss]] and [[terran]] organization. General [[Jim Raynor]] is a member of the Alliance and gives orders to the characters. The adventures take place some time after the [[Brood War (conflict)|Brood War]]. |
The adventure pamphlets has three very short linked adventures. The player characters are members of "the [[Alliance]]", a [[protoss]] and [[terran]] organization. General [[Jim Raynor]] is a member of the Alliance and gives orders to the characters. The adventures take place some time after the [[Brood War (conflict)|Brood War]]. |
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Revision as of 18:38, 24 April 2010
Alternity: StarCraft Edition was an Alternity game system table-top roleplaying game set in Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft universe. It used much simpler "fast play" rules rather than the full Alternity rule set. It comes with three pamphlets, a GM's card, and a set of dice.
The Adventures
StarCraft Adventures
The adventure pamphlets has three very short linked adventures. The player characters are members of "the Alliance", a protoss and terran organization. General Jim Raynor is a member of the Alliance and gives orders to the characters. The adventures take place some time after the Brood War.
The heroes were sent to Dylar Station via the Sleepwalker (a cloaked and armed dropship). Dylar Station is a refueling depot and an outpost that the Alliance uses to spy on the coreward part of the Koprulu Sector, but now communications had been cut off. The people who worked there had been captured by the zerg, and the heroes had to rescue them. As it turned out, the zerg were studying strange ruins on the surface of the now-abandoned desert planet Dylar IV.
The heroes traveled to the ruins, which turned out to be an ancient protoss city. Unfortunately, it was guarded by a number of zerg and also ancient protoss sentinel robots. A week after solving some of the mysteries, a number of terrans built a base camp there in order to study the ruins, although the planet was to be turned over to the protoss. Two weeks later, the heroes were expected to attend a celebration, but this was interrupted by Miratix, a Dark Templar, and his companions. During the battle, Miratix stole an artifact, a Shockwave Inducer, from the ruins, which gave him powers similar to an archon. However, he was defeated by the heroes and left in a comatose state.
A few weeks after this, the ceremony for the handing over of the planet was held, only to be interrupted by the zerg. The heroes had to escort Alliance dignitaries Naganis and Jim Raynor to safety from zerg attacks. They successfully escaped and the zerg were defeated on and above the planet.
Characters in StarCraft Adventures
Player Characters
The following is a list of the heroes available to the players. Points may be spent after each adventure to upgrade their stats.
- Bratalix (Zealot)
- Captain Julian Byrne (Dropship and Wraith pilot)
- Darakian (Dark Templar)
- Ketalis (High Templar)
- Sistask (Mutate)
- Lieutenant Mari Suzek (Medic)
- Specialist Kare Vaessen (Ghost)
- Private Dennis Wiker (Marine)
Non Player Characters
Web Content
Wizards of the Coast made additional web content available for StarCraft, specifically a list of weapons, armor and other equipment. The bonus material has been archived at archive.org.
Canon Status
Blizzard Entertainment has not discussed Alternity: StarCraft Edition.
Blizzard Entertainment's stance on Warcraft RPG lore may prove instructive when dealing with StarCraft universe lore. When discussing the Warcraft RPG sourcebooks with Giantorc, who said:
"Many people seems to think the RPG book are a part of warcraft lore, but those book were written by author that had almost nothing to do with bliz, sure they based their books on warcraft but it still just their point of view on warcraft, it has nothing to do with the lore we see in the game. If its not in W1, W2, W3, WoW or the game manual its just not in warcraft lore. The books like «lord of the clan» can be considered like a small part of warcraft lore since even if its not bliz who written those they had the last word on the publication and they gived to the author the basic scenario. But stop telling us part of the RPG books when you want to argue with someone, thats useless because the warcraft RPG books are not a part of warcraft lore."[1]
Eyonix, a community moderator, had this to say:
"Any piece of literature authorized and licensed by Blizzard Entertainment is in-fact, official. The book series written by Richard A. Knaak in particular is an excellent example of real 'Azerothian' history and lore available outside of our game software. We work closely with authors that help us expand our game universe, and the information should be considered official."[1]
References
- Bill Slavicsek, David Eckelberry, Shawn F. Carnes. Alternity: StarCraft Edition. Wizards of the Coast (TSR 11618), March 1, 2000. ISBN 978-0786-91618-4.
- StarCraft (Alternity Sci-Fi Roleplaying, StarCraft Edition) (Paperback). Amazon.com Accessed 2007-09-13.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eyonix, Giantorc. 2005-12-21. Could you please stop with the RPG books? WoW Blue Tracker. Accessed 2008-04-20.