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
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

(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

(SF3) Sundown on Starmist
Type: Adventure (Group)
Authors: Garry Spiegle
Published: 1983
Pages: 32
ISBN: 0-88038-039-X
Product ID: TSR 7803

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

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

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

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