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A Savage Setting of Planetary Romance

By:

Lizard

Gareth-Michael Skarka

Walt Ciechanowski

Aaron Rosenberg

Jess Nevins

Cover Art:

Eric Lofgren

Interior Art:

Igor Kieryluk

A. Nemo

Christophe Swal

Mark Maddox

Gabe Thomas

Jonathan Tiu

Matthew Vasey

Jason Walton

K. Yanner

CARTOGRAPHY:

Gregor Hutton

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

White Apes, Red Dawn... ....................................4

Welcome to Mars................................................7

FOUR: SETTING RULES

Heroic Rules.....................................................87

NPC Rules........................................................89

Airships of Mars...............................................91

A Rare Find. .....................................................98

ONE: MARS

Ancient Mars........................................................9

Modern Mars.......................................................10

Life On Mars.......................................................10

Map of Mars........................................................14

The Red Kingdoms............................................15

The Ape Empire..................................................23

The Grey Expanse...............................................24

The Green Wastes...............................................24

The Dark Below..................................................28

The Dead Seas....................................................29

The Canals..........................................................29

Thornpatches......................................................30

Oases...................................................................31

The Polar Stations...............................................32

Quest for Vengeance ...........................................33

FIVE: GAMEMASTERING

Sword and Planet............................................102

Thematic Elements.........................................104

Creating Adventures.......................................108

Nonplayer Characters.....................................111

Random Adventure Generator........................112

SIX: BEASTS OF MARS

Beastiary..........................................................118

Making It Martian...........................................126

In the Clutches of the Greys............................ 132

SEVEN: SLAVERS OF MARS

Introduction.....................................................135

Part One: A Simple Mission............................142

Part Two: Desolate Camps..............................147

Part Three: Assault on the Radium Mine........154

Part Four: The Rescue.....................................157

Part Five: Betrayal!........................................159

Dramatis Personae..........................................160

More Adventure Seeds...................................164

TWO: CHARACTERS

Characters and Concepts....................................36

Making a Hero...................................................38

Races of Mars....................................................39

Red Martians......................................................39

Green Martians...................................................42

White Apes.........................................................45

Grey Martians.....................................................49

Synthe-men.........................................................52

Earthmen............................................................54

Other Races .......................................................57

Skills .................................................................60

Edges..................................................................62

On The Shores of the Sunless Sea .....................70

EIGHT: ENCOUNTERS

Encounter Tables.............................................168

Nonplayer Characters......................................169

MARS Character Sheet...................................178

THREE: GEAR

Economics on Mars...........................................73

Armor.................................................................74

Weapons.............................................................76

Vehicles..............................................................81

Out of the Sun ....................................................83

DISCLAIMER: MARS is an original game set in

the Planetary Romance genre. It is not based on,

nor has any legal connection with, the work of any

single author within that genre, whether in the Public

Domain or otherwise. The details of the campaign

world presented herein contains similarities to com-

mon elements of the Planetary Romance genre, but

no relationship apart from those common similarities

is implied, and none should be inferred.

WHITE APES, RED DAWN

BY AARON ROSENBERG

These fantastic beasts did live deep within

the jungles, guarding jealously that rare place of

verdant growth and abundant fruit and pleasing

warmth. Yet this oasis upon the dry planet of Mars

was not enough for the warlike creatures, and

when the seasons did grow gentler, and the cold

of the lands beyond became more bearable, then

did the apes once more don their armor and gird

on their weapons and march forth to rain down

terror and ruin upon the lands beyond. All those

towns within their range did know fear as the

weather turned mild, for then surely they did face

raids and charges once more.

“Arise, my fellows!” Cardem of Timor

raised a might bellow. “Arise, and lay on arms!”

His shout echoed from his lofty perch upon the

ramparts, even as one long red arm gestured out,

out beyond the town’s sturdy metal walls, to the

world beyond. The sun was just beginning to peer

above the far horizon, its rays slowly transforming

the darkened plains of Mars to ields of light.

“Arise, and defend our homes and our loved

ones!” Though powerful, his voice held a faint

tremble, as of fear. “For the white apes attack!”

Nor was Cardem mistaken. The dawning light

did reveal a white mass rapidly advancing upon

the sturdy town, a mass that snarled and growled

and chanted and roared and clanked even as it

approached. A white mass that, as it grew nearer,

was revealed as a wave of monstrous, white-

furred beasts, though these beasts wore armor and

bore arms and marched in perfect rhythm. The

white apes of the northern jungle were upon them!

And now that time had come again, as surely

as the years did low one into the other, and the

white apes sent their war bands far and wide.

Timor stood upon the outermost reaches of their

campaign, and only a few times over the centuries

had it been subjected to anything beyond a small,

exploratory raid. Yet clearly something had

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