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Fading Suns (1st Edition)

By: Holistic Design

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Fading Suns

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Product Info

Title
Fading Suns (1st Edition)
Publisher
Product Line
Author
Bill Bridges, Andrew Greenberg
Publish Year
1996
Pages
270
Dimensions
8.5x11x.75"
NKG Part #
2053793019
MFG. Part #
HDIFS200
Type
Softcover

Description

Fading Suns is primarily a science fiction game, which means that there are starships, blasters, powered armor, alien races, and weird science. But there are also many elements of traditional fantasy gaming: heroic characters and struggles, a feudal sociopolitical structure (noble lords, high priests and headstrong merchants), powerful artifacts and great mysteries. And there is horror: monsters and maddening discoveries revealing terrifying metaphysical truths.

The atmosphere of the dramas played out in Fading Suns is one of tragic ignorance. Civilization is in decline, and superstition and fear are everywhere. New ideas and frontiers are spurned by a nervous populace, fearful of change for the harm it brings. But it is just this sort of willful ignorance that keeps civilization from rising again. It is such fear that keeps hope buried and great challenges from being met. The player characters represent the heroes who can break the bonds of this ignorance and bring something new and great to their culture, to reawaken and invigorate life.