 To the humans, Eos offered a whole new world to explore with all of its challenges, threats, and rewards. But that was just the beginning. The critically acclaimed and ENnie-nominated Dawning Star: Operation Quick Launch introduced the Dawning Star Campaign Setting. In Helios Rising, it explodes with the fury of a thousand suns. Dawning Star is the only full-scale science-fiction campaign setting built on d20 Modern and powered by d20 Future.
Helios Rising presents the rest of the Helios System in all its glory, from the prison-planet Hephaestus to the steamy jungles of C’thalk to the deserted Tentaari Gateway Station. Each planet is described in exacting detail with extensive new rules uniquely tailored to it:
- A dozen playable PC species, including the fierce saurians, the otherworldly yaom, and the stoic coqui.
- More than 100 adventure seeds, mapped locations, and fully statted NPCs, including the Ice Mines of Poseidon, the treacherous underground world of the Hollow Dark, and the Lord Oraton, leader of the Vaasi Assault Clan Ur-Kazzi.
- More than 100 feats, occupations, talent trees, and character classes, including the Wolf Nomads, Mechite Infomongers, and the Blood Guard Warriors of the Saurian Emperor.
- 300+ new weapons, cybernetic implants, nanites, starships, alien relics, mecha, and more gear, including saurian kinai blades, the organic hardware of the haimedians, and singularity rifles.
- A detailed description of Red Truth--a whole new take on psionics, specially developed for a realistic futuristic setting, along with 18 new powers.
- Tons of terrifying new information about the dreaded vaasi, their servitors, their weapons, their culture, and their dark plans for the Helios system.
Written by Lee Hammock. Supplemental writing by Chad Barr. Editing by Brandes Stoddard and Justin D. Jacobson. Art direction by Danilo Moretti. Technical Advice by Robert J. Grady. 540 pages. Perfectbound.
Helios Rising is a standalone product. You do not need a copy of Operation Quick Launch to use Helios Rising.
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The Entire Introductory Chapter (pdf)
The Entire Chapter on Hephaestus (pdf) (links to free download at RPG Now)
Danilo’s Amazing Art Preview (pdf)
The Seven-Page Index (pdf)
» Reviews
"I wholeheartedly encourage folks looking for a sci-fi setting to run out and buy this book and its companion book; you could cover every single science fiction campaign you wanted in the context of the Helios system as presented in these two books, and you'd be hard-pressed to do better somewhere else (I can't think of anything I'd recommend before this setting). And I don't think that Blue Devil Games intended to create a toolbox setting. I'd say that the care taken to present a thematically cohesive and generically flexible setting indicates as much. Helios Rising is damn near exclusively intended as a whole-cloth setting for all your sci-fi gaming needs, and it could not really do this any better than it already does."
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"This product has got extremely high production values. From the great cover to the beautiful layout to the excellent writing and artwork, its obvious that this was a labor of love. Great care was taken in creating a sourcebook that can serve as a tool to support any number of campaign models. Blue Devil Games has been supporting this campaign setting with regular product releases, but this one ups the ante considerably with its amazingly high quality. The content is also well balanced, with nothing being grossly overpowered or overwhelming to the rest of the setting. Most importantly, its a blast to read, either as a game product or science fiction sourcebook."
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"Dawning Star: Helios Rising picks up where Operation Quick Launch leaves off with a detailed overview of the Helios system. A large variety of planets, moons, and space stations hold an incredible number of alien species, weapons, and equipment. For those who are looking for a d20 Future setting filled with more to do than any gaming group could handle in a dozen campaigns then
Helios Rising is a great choice."
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