Ad Astra is a science fiction role-playing game.

The 1st Edition of the RPG, Ad Astra: Children of Empire, was a simple homebrew RPG, mostly just shared amongst friends with the basic rules shared freely off its homepage. The game, released in 1988 was very human-centric, and used a cumbersome percentile dice system. In 1990 the 2nd edition, titled Ad Astra: The New Age, was released as shareware. The game continued to be shared online, both through its original homepage, but also through various peer-to-peer clients. Thanks to word of mouth the game now has a small but loyal following of a few hundred players worldwide.

The third edition, Ad Astra: Alien Future will retain the minimalist game elements of 2nd edition, but is expected to be far more experimental. As well, the 3rd edition will also be released under a form of Creative Commons License allowing anyone to freely add non-commercial supplements to the body of resources available to the game.

Chirrok

The Chirrok are a fictional insectoid alien race. Chirrok are noted for having a culture wholly based on their faith, the worship of sentient plant "gods". Chirrok are about the size of a Terran vulture, and fly by means of two sets of wings.

External link

Ad Astra's homepage