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Mar 26, 2020
3 min

StarCraft Update 3/26/2020

Today’s StarCraft update doesn’t drastically change the game. It is mostly focused on edits, readability, and clarity issues. There are some balance tweaks but nothing major. General Changes -Processed all of the updates posted in the StarCraft Edits discord channel. Thank you everyone for posting and letting us fix problems in the game! I’m not going to repeat those changes here, as the discord channel also serves as a changelog. -This may seem minor but went back and alphab

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StarCraft Heroes Guide now Available!

Dec 10, 2019
1 min

StarCraft Heroes Guide now Available!

The StarCraft Heroes Guide is now available to everyone! This is the compendium of all the StarCraft patreon content from November 2018 to October 2019. This is a valuable resource for people wanting to flesh out their characters, look for new customization options, and find new ways to explore the StarCraft setting. StarCraft Heroes Guide includes: -Backstory generators for all races -New talents for terran, protoss, and primal zerg -New terran specializations -New primal ze

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The End War has Begun! StarCraft Supplement 5 now available!

Aug 23, 2019
2 min

The End War has Begun! StarCraft Supplement 5 now available!

StarCraft Supplement 5: The End War, is now available! This massive resource contains a wealth of new information, statistics, and options for players and GMs of the StarCraft roleplaying game. During the End War, Amon, the fallen Xel'Naga, sought to extinguish all life from the universe. He used legions of enslaved minions and his dreaded hybrid to destroy worlds and purge the galaxy of all life. Only the union of all three factions working together were able to save the uni

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StarCraft Update 8/23/2019

Aug 23, 2019
4 min

StarCraft Update 8/23/2019

A big series of updates were pushed out today to go alongside Supplement 5! Check it out! Resources The Advanced Race Guide and Game Master's Screen are no longer available. They are both out of date and no longer necessary. Protoss *Major* Protoss players and enemies are now high threat entities. This means player protoss count as two characters for splitting experience. Therefore, a party of 2 terrans and 2 protoss would split experience 6 ways. In the meantime, fighting 3

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StarCraft Update 6/12/2019

Jun 12, 2019
3 min

StarCraft Update 6/12/2019

Finally got a new update out for StarCraft. It's been a few months. Let's check out what is coming today! *Major* The Death and Dying systems and tables has been completely reworked. Now, they are much simpler and easier to understand, but in many cases, more lethal. *Major* Swarms have received a large rework. They no longer have a mass value or damage threshold. Instead they have a hit point value equal to 20x the base creatures. Area of Effect and Unstoppable attacks gain

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StarCraft Update 3/25/2019

Mar 25, 2019
2 min

StarCraft Update 3/25/2019

Another StarCraft update today, covering a wide variety of issues, but mostly focused on powers and vehicles. General Issues -Major read through and overhaul of the entire Constructs chapter. There were too many changes to mention, mostly fixes, clarifications, and added consistencies. However, there is now a new section called Vehicle Order of Operations, that determines the order actions must take place when piloting a vehicle. See it on the bottom of the first page of Chap

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StarCraft Update 12/11/2018

Dec 11, 2018
3 min

StarCraft Update 12/11/2018

Along with today’s big release, we are also putting out a major update to the StarCraft RPG! This update includes balance changes, new paragons, and very significant changes to vehicles. Check it out! New Additions *Major* Three new Paragons of the Galaxy: Alexei Stukov, Highlord Alarak, and Phase Smith Karax. *Major* Every race’s character creation section now has a new section ‘Recap: Advancing your Character’ that makes it very simple about what you spend characteristic po

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StarCraft Update 8/17/2018

Aug 17, 2018
4 min

StarCraft Update 8/17/2018

It’s been a couple of months since we’ve done an update, so I had quite a few changes piled up waiting to be done. I want to thank my play testers and the discord community for their feedback, as well as my patreon backers for their support. This month focuses on new content, revisions to piloting, and revisions to psionics. There are also some balance fixes. Miscellaneous Changes *Major* Added new explanatory text in the Core Rulebook relating to skills and how they function

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StarCraft Supplement 4: Monsters of Koprulu, now avalible!

Jul 18, 2018
3 min

StarCraft Supplement 4: Monsters of Koprulu, now avalible!

A long last it is finished! StarCraft Supplement 4: Monsters of Koprulu, is now available for everyone at www.leovauntgamedesign.com! This massive resource contains everything zerg and monster related in the Koprulu Sector. Almost 300 pages in length, it is the largest supplement we have every put out. Now it is here for you! Just a preview of the contents: -Chapter 1 previews the new and improved primal zerg rules, completely revamped from the Advanced Race Guide. The new ru

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The StarCraft RPG now has Roll20 Support!

Jun 20, 2018
1 min

The StarCraft RPG now has Roll20 Support!

Today we are officially announcing that we have Roll20 support for the StarCraft RPG on discord! This project was completed by a good friend and contributor to Leovaunt Game Design, Jordan AKA OMNOMN. The record sheet went through many variations and was tested extensively in gameplay for several months. Thank you so much, Jordan! If you want to find the StarCraft RPG option on Roll20, look at the bottom of the Star Wars sections of compatible games! Get to the Roll20 game cr

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StarCraft Update 6/13/2018

Jun 13, 2018
3 min

StarCraft Update 6/13/2018

This month’s update focuses largely on clarifications on poorly or unclearly written rules. In addition, there are several balance changes. General Rules -At long last there are new, fixed, rules for what happens when you gain a pre-existing talent from a terran specialization or protoss class. If it is a multiple tiered talent, you gain the next rank of the talent. If it is not multi-tiered, you gain another talent of your choice that you currently qualify for. You cannot ba

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StarCraft Update 5/8/2018

May 8, 2018
4 min

StarCraft Update 5/8/2018

We have a new update available for all StarCraft supplements, focusing on game balance changes. Core Game *Major* The overclock mechanic for robots has, finally, been removed. It was a holdover from the original game that was barely looked at or touched on. It was such a hassle to deal with for random NPCs that I myself rarely bothered to use it. Therefore, it has been removed, as have the different ‘robot parameters’. Now, most of the old overclock options are available as s

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StarCraft Expanded Rules Reference Sheet

Apr 13, 2018
1 min

StarCraft Expanded Rules Reference Sheet

To go with today’s update is a major quality of life improvement for playing StarCraft. This is the updated Basic Rules Reference, which now supports an additional page for Advanced Rules. The advanced rules cover an assortment of topics you might need to quickly access in gameplay: -Coverage of tactics, leaders, and lore combat augmentations -Overview of sneaking and cloaking rules. -Section on psionics, including manifestation, energy fatigue, boosting, overloading, and rec

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StarCraft Balance Update 4/13/2018

Apr 13, 2018
3 min

StarCraft Balance Update 4/13/2018

Got a few updates today that have arisen from playtesting. Mostly a balance update, but with some clarifications as well. Encounter Rules -Extra sidebars have been added to the Encounter Rules, featuring topics including hailfire on missed attacks, or lack thereof -Automatic fire methods have been clarified so there is less confusion about the nature of a focused burst versus an area burst Character Changes *Major* Leadership Overhaul Leaders can now give morale points to the

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New Polls up on the Patreon Page

Mar 8, 2018
1 min

New Polls up on the Patreon Page

I'm always looking for people's feedback on how to advanced and move things along. For this purpose, I have FOUR new polls open on patreon page. We are discussing several matters, including: -The fate of the Mutual Survivor system for Fallout -The advancement and limitations of Primal Zerg characters in StarCraft -What bonus content is going to be released the following months (and hence be free at the end of the year). If you are not yet a supporter and wish to help our comm

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Now Available: The Advanced Terran Training Manual!

Jan 30, 2018
2 min

Now Available: The Advanced Terran Training Manual!

At long last, Supplement 2: The Advanced Terran Training Manual, is now available! This is the largest rules and content supplement we have put out to date! It contains a library of information for use by players and Game Masters in their StarCraft campaigns. Included in this encyclopedia are: -7 new backgrounds for terran player characters. -Almost 50 new specializations, split amongst all 3 specializations rankings. -Dozens of new talents. -Many new weapons, including flak

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Major StarCraft Update 1/30/2018

Jan 30, 2018
5 min

Major StarCraft Update 1/30/2018

Massive set of gameplay updates for all documents to go with today's tremendous release! General Game Play Changes *Major* The Encounter Rules section has a dedicated section for both Damage Types and Conditions. Many of the previous conditions, such as burning, melting, blinded, and immobilized, have been redone as part of becoming formal conditions, and changed through all of the documents. There are also more formal rules for poison and EMP damage. For example, Poison Dama

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January Patreon Bonus Content and Newsletter now Available!

Jan 9, 2018
2 min

January Patreon Bonus Content and Newsletter now Available!

The patreon content for this month is now available! This includes the bonus content for 10$ backers, and the newsletter for 5$ backers. This month in the patreon Bonus Content we are talking about survival mechanics, in case your players are lost on a frontier world or a hostile planet. Included in this supplement: -Rules for day cycles and managing your food and water -What different races need to survive -Structured survival and fatigue mechanics based on passing day cycl

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StarCraft Adventure: Raid on Installation Delta-Rose, now available!

Dec 28, 2017
1 min

StarCraft Adventure: Raid on Installation Delta-Rose, now available!

Today is the release of the final section of patreon bonus content from the past year of Leovaunt Game Design. This time we are releasing the first StarCraft adventure for 2nd edition, the Raid on Installation Delta-Rose. This adventure was first seen in the September/October issues of patreon bonus content. This adventure revolves around the raid of a slave mine colony on the planet Redstone that is managed by an evil cooperation. This open-ended adventure is designed for ch

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Protoss Race Update 12/15/2017

Dec 15, 2017
1 min

Protoss Race Update 12/15/2017

Another race specific update, this time for Protoss. This one is regarding protoss gaining skill focuses upon the completion of each class that was mentioned amongst many different channels. -Whenever a protoss character completes a class, elite class, or renown class, they get a choice of skill focuses that vary based on that classes list. The skill focus either gives them +2 maximum ranks with that skill, or +1 maximum skill ranks if they already have a focus in that skills

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