Recently, Golden Lasso Games launched a Kickstarter campaign for their latest tabletop project. The project was Starscape, a sci-fi TTRPG heavily inspired by themes of found family. It was fully funded the same day it went live.
The Starscape Kickstarter Campaign
According to the campaign page, Starscape is a TTRPG that uses the Powered By The Apocalypse RPG system. The game is inspired by episodic sci-fi television shows, citing Star Trek, Firefly, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, and Babylon 5.
The game's setting follows a similar format. The players are crewmates on a starship, which they slowly make into their home as they travel the galaxy. Whether exploring planets, infiltrating space stations, or fighting with outlaws, their ship is their foundation and their shipmates are their second family.
The Starscape core rulebook contains over 200+ pages of original rules and playbooks. These include playbooks for different kinds of ships, ten different character archetype playbooks, a step-by-step Session Zero world creation process, and an economy where players trade, earn, and wager Trust.
Starscape was a four-year-long passion project by writer and designer Kimi Hughes. She got the idea for the game during the COVID-19 lockdown after recently becoming a mother. Isolated from the rest of the world full of uncertainty and fear, she found hope through binge-watching Star Trek. This game is the result of that nostalgia trip.
Hughes is joined by other talented developers and artists on this project. This includes character artist Carlos "Kaek" Eulefi (Backroads), cover artist Bryan Vectorartist, layout designer Bora Haxhirai (Everyday Heroes), and editor Jaye Elsinger (Horror Beneath The Frost).
The Kickstarter campaign's stretch goals are as follows:
- Planet for $20: A PDF of the core rulebook
- Moon for $30: A PDF and physical softcover copy of the core rulebook
- Comet for $45: PDF, physical copy, and adventure supplement written by Kimi Hughes
- Star for $60: A hardcover deluxe edition of the core rulebook and PDF
- Supernova for $75: Hardcover deluxe edition, PDF, and adventure supplement
- Pulsar for $100: The deluxe hardcover core rulebook, PDF, adventure supplement, and a set of Starscape-themed dice
- Nebula for $250: Everything from the Pulsar tier, a Kickstarter-exclusive gilded hard cover copy of the core rulebook, and a seat at one-shot adventure
- Galaxy for $500: Everything from the Nebula tier, and having Kimi Hughes GM a one-shot of Starscape for your table
At time of writing, Starscape has raised $14,757, fulfilling its initial funding goal of $12,000. The campaign concludes August 8.
