Fly fast, run hot, and keep the crew alive in a galaxy that fell apart and never stopped falling.
image slot · Starfall, the world
The world
Where it happens
A generation ago the Star Throne shattered, and what rose in its place is a hundred fractured things at once: warlord domains run on fear, the Combine syndicate taxing every cargo that moves, free worlds declaring sovereignty with no fleet to back it, and the Iron Throne remnant still wearing the crest and calling the chaos temporary. Between them all is the Drift, a free-port station that belongs to everyone and no one.
Starfall plays like a fast ship and a reason to fly. Your crew takes the jobs that pay, navigates the powers that want to own you, and keeps the Heat low enough that the galaxy does not close in. Threading it all is the Tide, the galactic current that runs through living things and the void between stars. A few can reach into it and bend what it touches: the Adept who listens for the hum, the Sentinel who channels it through a lightblade, the Oracle who dives so deep the dark edge is always close.
image slot · the pressure that drives play
What drives it
Heat, the galaxy hunts you
Heat runs from 0 to 10 and tracks how much attention the powers are paying your crew right now: every open firefight, every stolen manifest, every defied patrol pushes it higher. At Heat 10 the powers converge and the GM resolves the consequence. The Tide cuts both ways too: reaching for the current through calm focus is the path of the Order, but dark use through anger or fear nudges Heat upward as inquisitors and witnesses register something they cannot explain.
image slot · Starfall, how it plays
How it plays
The systems you can ask for
These mechanics are original to Starfall — you will not know them from any rulebook. Read them here, then simply ask your gamemaster for any of them at the table; the engine enforces every number.
Your ship
Every crew starts with a battered freighter — fly it, fight it, upgrade it, smuggle in its hold.
The Tide & the Dark Edge
Draw on the dark for power right now — your slide toward the fall is tracked, and it cannot be bribed away.
Heat & bounties
The manhunt escalates in bands — at Wanted, a bounty is posted on your head and hunters come.
The war moves
Throne and Free Captains fronts advance on real clocks whether you intervene or not.
The void
Vacuum, radiation, derelicts — exploration with numbers, not vibes.
Dogfights & boarding
Ship combat flows straight into blaster fights on the deck.
“A ship is a hull. A crew arguing inside it is a home.”
image slot · the species of Starfall
Who you can be
8 species
portrait · Human
Human
Adaptable spacefarer found in every faction and port.
portrait · Voidborn
Voidborn
Ship-born, low-light eyes, at home in vacuum.
portrait · Saurian
Saurian
Proud reptilian species, tough hide and cold patience.
portrait · Korrin
Korrin
Dense heavy-worlders built to push back against anything.
portrait · Synthetic
SyntheticPremium
Artificial person who repairs instead of rests.
portrait · Lumen
LumenPremium
Tide-attuned folk whose inner light betrays their gift.
portrait · Chitin
ChitinPremium
Insectoid with natural armor and a faint hive-echo.
portrait · Uplift
UpliftPremium
Engineered beastfolk: fast, fierce, and quietly furious.
image slot · the roles in action
What you can do
10 roles
Gunslinger
Blaster ace who draws first and never misses twice.
Vanguard
Armored frontline soldier who holds the breach alone.
Ace
Void pilot who flies what physics says is impossible.
Slicer
Hacker and droid-handler for whom systems are weapons.
Adept
Tide-sensitive mystic carrying the current forward.
SentinelPremium
Lightblade warrior who channels the Tide through a blade.
OraclePremium
Deep Tide-seer who walks the edge of the dark current.
OperatorPremium
Smuggler and face who knows how to cool the Heat.
SawbonesPremium
Field medic who brings crews back from the black.
WardenPremium
Bounty hunter who does not chase, simply arrives.
image slot · the arms of Starfall
The arsenal
Arms, and what they cost
Real rows from the engine's own tables: the dice are the dice, the prices are the prices. Your gamemaster cannot fudge them, and neither can you.
Blaster pistol1d8
The galaxy's handshake. Holsters everywhere.
Force-blade1d8
The Tide given an edge. It hums when you doubt.
Sniper rifle1d12
Diplomacy, from a parsec's polite distance.
Plasma charge4d6
For when the door, and the wall, must go.
Personal shield900 cr
A second chance you wear on your belt.
Shield generator6,000 cr
Your ship's promise to come home scarred, not gone.
… and 61 more priced pieces in play.
image slot · what hunts you in Starfall
The opposition
What hunts you
Every foe is statted before the fight starts; what your party learns about them is recorded, hunt by hunt.
Throne corvetteHP 90
Fast, bored, and certain it owns your lane.
Annihilator war-droidHP 66
A treaty violation on legs.
Hive matriarchHP 70
The swarm is a body. This is the mind.
Tide-wraithHP 38
What a fall to the dark leaves behind.
Throne inquisitorHP 48
He feels you draw the Tide before you do.
Star-krakenHP 80
Old enough to remember when the lanes were quiet.
… and 52 more in the bestiary.
Begin a Starfall campaign
Connect lorewend to your AI, make a character, and tell the gamemaster you want Starfall. The free tier plays a full campaign.
Human
Voidborn
Saurian
Korrin
SyntheticPremium
LumenPremium
ChitinPremium
UpliftPremium