Richard
Solar Echoes is an easy to pick up and fun to play tabletop RPG that encourages and rewards players working as a team. The phased turn sequence means that everyone is engaged all through the turn. Within a few rounds of combat we all understood the dice mechanics and could focus on living out our space opera adventure in this richly realised science fiction world.” – Richard Kirke, UK podcast host of the D20 Future Show.
FREE Demo, Operation: Flash Strike
Operation Flash Strike includes everything new players and a Mission Controller (GM) need to run the Flash Strike Mission. This adventure is designed to introduce new players to the Solar Echoes setting and gameplay mechanics with a learn-as-you-play approach. In this short mission, players must stop an illegal arms deal, prevent the high-tech weapons from ending up in the hands of criminals, and interrogate key individuals for valuable intel. 47 pages containing the basics needed for play, including: “Operation: Flash Strike” Mission for beginning level…
Gregg
What impresses me the most about Solar Echoes are the alien races. Aliens in science fiction games usually suffer from one extreme or the other: either they are stereotypical “animal men” or they are creatures too bizarre to play. Solar Echoes does a phenomenal job in creating aliens which are both unique and playable, with complex and believable cultures that contribute to a character’s personality without dominating it. As a player, I had a difficult time choosing which one I wanted to play because I…
Tabletop Twats
I like the fact that all these race designs for aliens seem to be quite unique, like, you’ve got, in other sci-fi games you have like a grey alien, you have a wookie, you have a cat-person, whatever, but in this, you’ve got, like, a Cthulhu monster with two beam-sabers, a blob-thing with a gun, insect-person, a black…sort of panther-type guy? A flower, a lizard-folk, and a human. Each character has unique skills, and they really pushed group, kind-of tactics, if you like, and working…