Role-Playing Games

Star Frontiers (Alpha Dawn)

Star Frontiers was a science fiction role-playing game produced by TSR beginning in 1982. The game offered a space opera action-adventure setting.

Star Frontiers takes place near the center of a spiral galaxy (the setting does not specify whether the galaxy is our own Milky Way). A previously undiscovered quirk of the laws of physics allows starships to jump to “The Void”, a hyperspatial realm that greatly shortens the travel times between inhabited worlds, once they reach 1% of the speed of light (3,000 km/s).

The basic game setting was an area known as “The Frontier Sector” where four sentient races (Dralasite, Humans, Vrusk, and Yazirian) had met and formed the United Planetary Federation (UPF). The original homeworlds of the Dralasites, Humans, and Vrusk were never detailed in the setting and it is possible that they no longer existed. A large number of the star systems shown on the map of the Frontier sector in the basic rulebook were unexplored and undetailed, allowing the Gamemaster (called the “referee” in the game) to put whatever they wished there.

Players could take on any number of possible roles in the setting but the default was to act as hired agents of the Pan Galactic corporation in exploring the Frontier and fighting the aggressive incursions of the alien and mysterious worm-like race known as the Sathar. Most published modules for the game followed these themes.

Star Frontiers 1st Edition

Authors: TSR Staff, Edited by Steve Winter
Published: Jul 1980 (Basic Rules), Jul 1982 (Expanded Rules & SF-0 Crash on Vulturnus)
Pages: Basic Rules 16, Expanded Rules 60, SF-0: Crash on Vulturnus 30
ISBN: n/a
Product ID: 7007

Star Frontiers Alpha Dawn

Star Frontiers Alpha Dawn

Authors: TSR Staff, Edited by Steve Winter
Published: Jul 1982
Pages: Basic Rules 16, Expanded Rules 60, SF-0: Crash on Vulturnus 30
ISBN: n/a
Product ID: 7007

Star Frontiers: (SF1) Volturnus, Planet of Mystery

(SF1) Volturnus, Planet of Mystery

Type: Adventure (Group)
Authors: Mark Acres, Tom Moldvay
Published: 1982
Pages: 32
ISBN: 0-935696-75-X
Product ID: TSR 7801

(SF2) Starspawn of Volturnus

Type: Adventure (Group)
Authors: Mark Acres, Tom Moldvay
Published: 1982
Pages: 32
ISBN: 0-935696-78-8
Product ID: TSR 7802

Sundown on Starmist SF3

(SF3) Sundown on Starmist

Type: Adventure (Group)
Authors: Garry Spiegle
Published: 1983
Pages: 32
ISBN: 0-88038-039-X
Product ID: TSR 7803

SFAC2 Referees Screen & Mini Module

(SFAC2) Referee's Screen and Mini-Module

Type: Game Accessory & Adventure
Authors: Mark Acres, Tom Moldvay
Published: 1983
Pages: 5 (screen), 8 (mini-module)
ISBN: n/a
Product ID: TSR 6801

SF4 Mission to Alcazzar

(SF4) Mission to Alcazzar

Type: Adventure (Group)
Authors: Douglas Niles
Published: 1984
Pages: 32
ISBN: 0-88038-146-9
Product ID: TSR 7809

Star Frontiers: Knight Hawks

Type: Expansion Rules
Authors: Douglas Niles
Published: 1983
Pages: 64 (campaign book), 16 (UPF Tactical Operations Manual), 16 (Introductory module, Warriors of the White Light)
ISBN: 0-880383-47-X
Product ID: TSR 7011

(SF AC-1) Character Record Sheets

Type: Game Accessory
Authors: n/a
Published: 1984
Pages: 32
ISBN: 0-88038-071-3
Product ID: TSR 7800

SFKH1 Dramune Run

(SFKH1) Dramune Run

Type: Adventure (Group)
Authors: Douglas Niles
Published: 1984
Pages: 32
ISBN: 0-88038-069-1
Product ID: TSR 7805

SFKH2 Mutiny on the Eleanor Moraes

(SFKH2) Mutiny on the Eleanor Moraes

Type: Adventure (Group)
Authors: Ken Rolston
Published: 1984
Pages: 32
ISBN: 0-88038-145-0
Product ID: TSR 7809

SFAC3 Zebulon's Guide To Frontier Space

(SFAC3) Zebulon's Guide To Frontier Space

Type: Game Accessory
Authors: Kim Eastland & Bruce Nesmith
Published: 1985
Pages: 96
ISBN: 0-88038-250-3
Product ID: TSR 7819

SFKH3 Face if the enemy

(SFKH3) Face of the Enemy

Type: Adventure (Group)
Authors: Ken Rolston
Published: 1985
Pages: 32
ISBN: 0-88038-147-7
Product ID: TSR 7810

SFAD5 Bugs in the system

(SFAD5) Bugs in the System

Type: Adventure (Group)
Authors: Graeme Morris
Published: 1985
Pages: 24+8
ISBN: 0-88038-248-1
Product ID: TSR 7817

SFAD6 Dark side of the moon

(SFAD6) Dark side of the Moon

Type: Adventure (Group)
Authors: Jim Bambra
Published: 1985
Pages: 24+8
ISBN: 0-88038-249-X
Product ID: TSR 7818

SFKH4 The War Machine

(SFKH4) The War Machine

Type: Adventure (Group)
Authors: Ken Rolston
Published: 1985
Pages: 24
ISBN: 0-88038-148-5
Product ID: TSR 7812

2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey

Type: Adventure (Group)
Authors: Frank Mentzer
Published: 1984
Pages: 32
ISBN: 0-88038-083-7
Product ID: TSR 7815

2010: A Space Odyssey

2010: A Space Odyssey

Type: Adventure (Group)
Authors: Bruce Nesmith & Curtis Smith
Published: 1984
Pages: 32
ISBN: 0-88038-183-3
Product ID: TSR 7816

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