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Not a fan of DriveThruRPG? Now you can download Stardrives from itch.io

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I got into contact with someone else at DriveThruRPG yesterday, and now Stardrives is available in print as well as PDF at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/417828/Stardrives

There were some issues, grappling with opaque PDF formatting requirements, printer sending me the wrong book entirely instead of the proof, but now you can buy my first RPG book in softcover print.

Thank you to those who backed the Kickstarter or have already purchased copies of the PDF, your support means so much to me.

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The proof has finally arrived!

Everything looks good, including the OGL 1.0 text (I’ll probably change that to ORC once it’s available), so I’ll be putting the print up for sale ASAP.

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Starfinder’s OGL is based on D&D3, not 5, so hopefully Stardrives and other third-party products will be fine

So okay, Wizards of the Coast is going to change the OGL (or to be more accurate: they will be making a new version of the OGL, because the nature of the OGL is such that it can not be revoked by WotC).

If you still want to produce content using the OGL 5.1 nothing will change EXCEPT it's very likely that WotC will make being able to sell products on the DM's Guild contingent on agreeing to the latest version of the OGL as well as make it so that any material explicitly compatible with One D&D will have to comply with the latest version of the OGL.

They're introducing royalties for third parties: starting in 2024 after you make a certain amount of money on your OGL product you have to start paying royalties to WotC. The number seems quite high, I can't imagine many third parties make that much money off of the OGL, but WotC clearly wants to make sure they make something out of the OGL.

They're also clarifying what you can actually use the OGL for: there's been at least one high-profile video game made under the OGL (Solasta) and Wizards wants to close that loophole: they clearly don't want third parties competing with their licensed games like Baldur's Gate 3 going forward.

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Stardrives, now on DriveThruRPG https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/417828/Stardrives

Travel the Stars at Warp Speed!

Discover hyperpaths and wormholes to take shortcuts across the gulfs of space.

Sick of spending weeks of downtime venturing from planet to planet? Blink and skip all that.

Prefer to take it slow? There's slower-than-light options for a "harder" sci-fi campaign as well.

Stardrives provides rules for introducing alternative methods of interstellar travel to your Starfinder RPG campaign, including:

Three new FTL drives.

STL drives, with rules for time dilation and planetary changes.

Wormholes: Tunnels through space and time.

A new system for calculating interplanetary travel time.

Asteroid mining and ship consctruction.

Nine pre-made starships for PCs or NPCs

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Stardrives is live on DriveThruRPG!

For just 99 cents you can now download a 36-page PDF of new starship and space exploration options for your Starfinder game.

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Finishing up on the final touches for Stardrives, my Starfinder-compatible OGL project with new methods of interstellar travel that act and feel dramatically different from Drift travel.

The PDF version should be up in a week or two, depending on when I get this cover finished up.

For more details see the Kickstarter campaign here: http://kck.st/3whPP09

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After some more tweaking

A second draft of the cover for Stardrives, an OGL supplement for Starfinder introducing three new faster-than-light drives and two methods of slower-than-light travel.

Coming soon to DriveThruRPG.

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A second draft of the cover for Stardrives, an OGL supplement for Starfinder introducing three new faster-than-light drives and two methods of slower-than-light travel.

Coming soon to DriveThruRPG.

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Another ship drawn by Ruddy Rose at https://www.instagram.com/anonymous_on_the_net/ for my Stardrives project. Which made funding just over a month ago! http://kck.st/3whPP09

The Sunpetal-class explorer is just 42 meters long fully extended. It mounts a single low output fusion engine and a set of 12 gimbaled verniers for maneuvering and acceleration. Solar sails can accelerate a thousand kilometers a minute in interstellar space. Typically crewed by 2-3 explorers and scientists but can accommodate up to 6 crew and 50 more passengers in cryonic stasis. Enough to survey a star system for future colonization by larger arks.

Stardrives contains statistics for a wide variety of slower-than-light drives, given how much time scientists and authors have spent exploring their feasibility, but solar sails are unique among them. For one thing they are considerably faster when pushed by a laser projected from another ship or station than relying on natural sunlight. For another that sail makes them a much bigger and less maneuverable target when deployed, in game terms they act as if two size categories larger. They can retract the sail if they suddenly find themselves in combat, but that takes time.

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Created new Discord server for Starfinder, looking for players!

I made a Discord server for my Starfinder project, Stardrives. In particular for playtesting the rules before I get ready to publish it. https://discord.gg/9ry7m6u9 I got one really enthusiastic player already but need at least one more, preferably two or three.

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Organizing a Starfinder campaign

To playtest some of the rules from my recently Kickstarted Stardrives supplement, I'm looking for players for a military-oriented campaign set during the Drift Crisis as the Marixah Republic/Gideron Authority conflict heats up.

Players would be Marixah privateers hired to provide security for a field test of an experimental FTL drive intended to compete with Gideron's Helldrives. I'd like to start at level 5 and use the squadron rules from SOM, though you could run a single large ship if you'd prefer.

I'm on CST time and available evenings except on Monday, hoping for 3-6 players.

If you're interested please reply.

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We made it!!!!

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joel-kreissman/stardrives-a-starfinder-compatible-shipbuilding-toolkit

One day left

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Fully Funded!!!!!!

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Two days to go, 79% funded.

See if we can’t raise another $105 by Wednesday morning

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joel-kreissman/stardrives-a-starfinder-compatible-shipbuilding-toolkit

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Last week of the campaign, let’s go!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joel-kreissman/stardrives-a-starfinder-compatible-shipbuilding-toolkit/posts/3527223