About Alternity: (dismiss introduction)
Alternity is a Science-Fiction Role Playing Game published by TSR/WotC, featuring campaign setting genres such as Dark•Matter (modern day conspiracy), Star*Drive (futuristic space opera), Gammaworld (post apocalypse science-fantasy), Starcraft (futuristic alien warfare) and Tangents (parallel worlds) and fantasy. Alternity is also quite suited to running gritty realistic Fantasy settings and there are many downloads to support the fantasy genre. Thousands of sourcebooks, expansions, PDFs, modules and resources have been created by the fans and members of this community - covering all topics including new species, vehicles, weapons & armor, spaceships, short stories, cyberware, adventures, campaigns, character artworks, star maps, articles, characters and new rules - all available for free from this site, no registration required.

The most active section of this website is the Forum, with hundreds of active members chatting about science, news, books, movies, life, game rules and Play-By-Forum games, you can join in now or list yourself.

We also host some fantastic Alternity Projects, chats and e-zines - Action Check & Dragon Magazine reprints, Last Resort (still in print), The Apocalyptic Post.

Get Started now with the free Fast Play rules, Star*Drive Players PDF and Star*Drive Gamemasters PDF , or the Dark•Matter Fast Play PDF - these include pre-generated characters, basic rules, and an adventure.

By Registering at AlternityRPG.Net you can get email updates when new Resources are uploaded, discuss and rate resources, you can submit your own resources/campaigns/adventures, post your own news, upload artwork, create Projects, subscribe to RSS news feeds, participate in the forums and join in the Online Forum Games.

We have much more than this! For over 500 more resources and downloads, see the "Resources" menu above, or see the Complete Listing Free sourcebooks Warships (2.5 meg) In the long-awaited Warships, game designer and Alternity co-author Rich Baker, offers you a complete 77,000-word (112 page) sourcebook FREE for download as a PDF file. Highlights of this core book include ship construction guidelines, combat rules, hit location diagrams, and more. ..archived information url.. Fast play Alternity Player Gamemaster Start Playing Alternity RIGHT NOW, for FREE!. All you need to start playing Alternity is included in two PDF documents (Gamemaster and Player). You will be introduced to the rules system and go on a cool adventure in space. Dark•Matter Player and GM Ever wanted to play-test the Dark•Matter campaign? Here's your chance! You should not play this setting if you have a heart condition, are easily freaked out, fear the unknown or are paranoid. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! Dark•Matter info packs Player Gamemaster The player pack introduces some new skills and features of Dark•Matter as well as career examples. The gamemaster pack has both player and gamemaster info, this just helps to explain the concepts with examples. E-Zines Last Resort Issue 1 Issue 2 Issue 3 Issue 4 Issue 5 Last Resort e-zine is THE new magazine for all things alternity ! Currently the latest mag. ..e-mail..  Project: Stone Jambalaya Issue 1 Issue 2 Gamma World for various editions. Action Check Action Check is a monthly on-line PDF Magazine dedicated to the Alternity Roleplaying game and its campaign settings (Star*Drive, Dark*Matter, Gamma World, StarCraft, Tangents). Each month we professionally present a host of gaming articles geared to helping folks in their games with Supporting Cast, Transmission adventure hooks, new tech, creatures, and more! Action Check ..e-mail..  The Apocalyptic Post Winter/Spring 2002 Summer 2001 Winter 2001 Early Fall 2000 Inaugural The Apocalyptic Post is an eZine dedicated to the Gamma World roleplaying game. It is offered free of charge to all interested parties and is not to be sold in any form. It may be printed if distributed free of charge. The Apocalyptic Post supports all five editions of the Gamma World roleplaying game. To the extent that they overlap with one or more of the various Gamma World editions, this publication also supports other roleplaying systems and settings. ..url.e-mail..  Unofficial Sourcebooks Foundry (Robot construction) Foundry: A Guide to Robots, Androids and Automatons. is an alternative robot creation system to that which Dataware provides, with the goal of completely superseding Dataware on robot creation rules. Dataware chapters concerning Grid, programs and AIs are not within Foundry's scope. ..e-mail..  Cosmos (Galaxy construction) Cosmos totally replaces the Campaign Architecture chapter of the GMG. It attempts to make the sweeping discoveries in astronomy, made over the last decade, useful to the SF gamer; presenting new possibilities and a step-by-step guide to creating your own corner of the Universe. ..e-mail..  Character Managers SQuAT website Developed since 2006, Manage your Alternity characters and expand your campaigns with new races, attributes, skills, perks, flaws, psionics, cyberware, achievements and equipment. ..url.e-mail.. Alternity Character Manager Completed in 2004, Simply THE definitive windows 95/98/NT/2000 program for creating and maintaining your hero/supporting cast sheets for use in Alternity. Options to save, save as HTML, save as XML and print. Also with a handy GM summary sheet. ACM can screen out any sources you do not wish to use, i.e. Dark Matter Skills and also create your own stuff. ..url.e-mail.. Sheets Character Sheet The character sheet as found in the Players Handbook. (coloured!) Gamma World Character Sheet Gamma World character record sheet. Shadow Record Sheet The shadow character record from the Dataware Alternity book. Robot Record Sheet The robot player character record sheet from the Dataware Alternity book. Action check record sheet This form helps you keep track of when each character gets to act in a given round. As each player rolls his or her action check, just mark off the phase(s) he or she gets to act in. ..url.e-mail..  Ammunition tracking form Feel the need to keep track of how much ammunition your players' heroes have been wasting? Try this form. Pick the weapon space appropriate to a clip's ammo capactity (cross out excess boxes, if any), and mark off a box each time the character takes a shot. (Or more, for automatic or burst-fire weapons.) ..url.e-mail..  Supporting character form Based on the "ALTERNITY® Extras Form" found in the Campaign Kit, this form presents the necessary information for a single member of the Supporting Cast. May also be useful as a one-page character sheet for a beginning player's hero. IRC Event Horizon game logs Episode 1x01 - March 17, 2001 Episode 1x02 - March 24, 2001 Episode 2x01 - April 28, 2001 Event Horizon is a game currently being played in #alternity.gameroom on irc.webmaster.org. You will find complete session logs here. For more information visit the homepage! ..url.e-mail..  Guests chats.. Jim Butler - Febrary 2, 2001 Here is the log-file from the scheduled chat with Jim Butler, Director of RPG Licensing at WotC. JD Wiker - March 3, 2006 JD Wiker was kind enough to join us on the Alternity Game Day and answer our questions. Jim Butler - April 1, 2006 Jim Butler (brand manager while Alternity was in print) answers a collection of questions gathered from the Alternity community . Richard Baker - March 3rd, 2007 Richard Baker, one of Alternity's main authors, attends Game Day chat 2007 to answer questions. Steven Schend - March 3rd, 2008 Steven Schend, attends Game Day chat 2007 to answer questions. Author, Lead Designer and Editor for companies such as TSR, Wizards of the Coast, Bastion Press, and Green Ronin. He made solid contributions to the major Alternity campaign settings – Star*Drive and Dark•Matter. Software Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF Viewer If you do not have a PDF file viewer you can download one for (almost) any computer or operating system here. Miscellaneous Alternity Font This is the TrueType font used on the cover of the Alternity PHB, GMG and throughout the various Alternity materials. In MS Windows environments, just open the Fonts applet under the Control Panel. Click File -> Install New Font and point to the location of the saved file and click OK. It should then be available for use in any of you text programs/word processors. courtesy of David Webb AKA roguemorgan Visualise The Verge applet See the Start*Drive Verge in rotating 3D, join up jump paths and see the distance between them in lightyears. Requires Java plugin installed to view. (c) Graham Wills 2004 and thanks to Neil Spicer + netbooks, + ..

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