Solar Echoes Player's Guide (2e)

It's the 10th Anniversary of Solar Echoes!

Let's celebrate with a new and improved Player's Guide...

The Solar Echoes Player's Guide 2nd Edition has been totally overhauled and filled with full-color art! Enjoy new game improvements and balances as well, such as greater weapon effects, alien racial weaknesses, full-color character and starship icons, and an improved and more rewarding dice system!

The Player's Guide is the core rule-book for Solar Echoes, the tabletop RPG with no turn-taking! Includes fast, streamlined game rules for squad combat, starship and vehicle combat, hacking, and dialogue encounters. Inside is everything a player needs to create unique characters: playable alien races, skills, a huge library of talent choices, weapons, armor, other equipment, cyberware, and much more. Information about history, astronomy, locations, and interesting organizations is provided in addition to details about starships and other vehicles players may operate in the game.

232 pages containing all the rules needed to play, including:

• Full rules for squad combat, starship and vehicle combat, hacking, and dialogue encounters

• 7 detailed alien character races, each providing a unique gameplay experience with its own racial abilities and culture

• Character customization options with a variety of skills, physiques, and personality choices

• A huge library of over 270 talent choices for designing any character type you can imagine

• A vast selection of weapons, armor, cyber-weapons, cyberware, and other equipment

• Stats for a wide variety of starships, air and terrestrial vehicles

• Historical information, location details, and unique organization descriptions

• Background material for the Inter-stellar Union (ISU) and your role as a Union Guard agent

• Character sheets, phase cards, starship / vehicle cards, MC sheets, grid map, starmap, and icons for characters and starships

What is Solar Echoes? Solar Echoes is a role playing game involving small unit tactics set in a science fiction universe, with a fast moving game system designed to promote team-play by allowing players to coordinate their moves and decisions together, react to opponents at any time, and see all actions occur simultaneously!

What is the Setting? As seven alien races struggle to co-exist in an uneasy alliance, the Inter-Stellar Union sends Union Guard agents on missions to preserve the crucial balance. These specialized operatives must do what regional security cannot, dealing with smugglers, pirates, terrorists, and even greater challenges in order to bring stability to a universe that needs it desperately. Without the Union Guard, the races will not be prepared to face a looming alien threat they can only hope to defeat together.

A New Gaming Experience! Tired of waiting for your turn? Annoyed with having to chew through tons of hitpoints before defeating an enemy? Angry that you waited so long for your turn, only to roll a critical failure? So were we!

How Solar Echoes is Different from other table-top RPG's:

FAST
No longer do you have to wait on your turn:
Players plan their movements and actions together without a prescribed turn order, and can react to anything whenever they choose. Rules are streamlined and the game is designed to move quickly--just a single opposed skill check with a little added luck from the dice determines success or failure.

TEAM
The game encourages tactics and team-play:
Players will find success is achieved by actively coordinating together as a team. Smaller hit point totals and wound penalties instantly make team tactics crucial. Every system in the game is designed to involve all players working together.

FUN
Experience a variety of gameplay challenges:
Solar Echoes involves a range of scenarios including squad combat, starship battles, car chases, and even dialogue and hacking encounters. This is all conducted under an efficient and easy to learn game system.