Aaron Allston's Strike Force

AARON ALLSTON'S STRIKE FORCE
Featuring original and new material by Aaron Allston—The Wraith Squadron Trilogy; the Enemy Lines books; one-third of the Legacy of the Force series; one third of the Fate of the Jedi series; X-Wing: Mercy Kill; The Clone Wars: The Pengalan Tradeoff; The Clone Wars: League of Spies; as well as his own Doc Sidhe series and numerous Dungeons & Dragons, Champions, and other RPG products—this project is a revival of one of the greatest roleplaying products in the hobby's history. Strike Force was originally published in 1988 as part of the Champions line of superhero roleplaying products. While it's primary purpose was to present Aaron's rather well-known and popular home campaign (which was renowned for the waiting list of folks – including many gaming luminaries – wanting to join) for use by other Champions game masters, the real glory of this book was its function as an amazing guide on how to run a campaign – not just for superheroes, but just about any RPG.

Co-Written, Researched, and Developed by Michael Surbrook (Fantasy Hero Complete; Kazei 5; Larger Than Life; Ninja Hero), with Ross Watson (Fantasy Flight's Star Wars RPG products; Accursed; Warhammer 40k Roleplay; Savage Rifts) as the Project Lead, this new version incorporates over 22 years of campaign play, notes, and ideas. Aaron intended to publish a new version all along, and his family is thrilled to see his wishes come true with this project.


In addition to the campaign material and Aaron's GM advice, new material is included from Surbrook, Watson, and other notable writers like Steve Kenson (Mutants & Masterminds, ICONS) and Sean Patrick Fannon (Work on both West End's and Fantasy Flight's Star Wars RPGs; Shaintar; Savage Rifts). This project is intended to expand and enhance the original book's goals of presenting a fantastic setting and extraordinary advice on how to successfully maintain a living, breathing RPG campaign over the span of years.


AARON ALLSTON'S STRIKE FORCE will be a high quality sourcebook featuring artwork by Denis Loubet – one of the original Strike Force players (as well as one of Aaron's best friends and the artist for the first version of the book). Also included will be testimonials from a wide variety of RPG and other luminaries, all of whom were moved and motivated by Aaron's kindness, creativity, and enormous influence on both gaming and other genre media.

The Kickstarter campaign to fund this important book has just launched, with one of the first stretch goal planned as a book of fiction featuring three never-before-published short stories by Aaron himself and other notable authors, such as fellow X-Wing writer Michael Stackpole!

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