Starlight Saga - Quickstart Rules

Starlight Saga is a cinematic game about space exploration where decisions and consequences drive the story forward. If you like universes like Star Wars, Mass Effect, Guardians of the Galaxy or Star Trek, this game will help you tell your own epic Saga.

• Heroic Space Opera – The game’s setting provides a foundation for creating your own stories in the style of Star Wars, Guardians of the Galaxy, or Mass Effect, with a touch of cosmic horror.
• Drives and Overdrives – Drives refresh between missions, while Overdrives are earned during gameplay. They allow you to boost certain abilities, with additional mechanics for gaining them.
• Fracturing the Light – You can reroll in exchange for a Restitution Point. When the GM earns six, a major twist or deadly consequence is introduced. At the end of a mission, remaining points are spent to roll for a plot twist or story complication.
• Crew Measures – Abilities similar to Circle abilities that can be unlocked and equipped individually between missions.
• Factions – Each major faction has opposing perspectives. They can be seen as good or evil, depending on the table, the GM, or the unfolding story.

The game is powered by the Illuminated Worlds System, by Darrington Press, which provide an easy to use and robust framework to tell epic stories. 

This packet contains all you need to play the game, including an introductory adventure and pregen characters for each of the different classes: Captain, Vanguard, Prodigy, Scientist and Shadow.