Ironsworn: Starforged

A tabletop roleplaying game by Shawn Tomkin, set in the Forge — a chaotic, unexplored galaxy of dangerous frontiers, ancient mysteries, and desperate settlements. Players take on the role of spacefaring Ironsworn, bound to sworn vows, piloting starships and forging their own path across the stars. Starforged plays solo, cooperatively, or with a guide (GM).

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Attribution: Ironsworn: Starforged is created by Shawn Tomkin and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Core Rules

• The Basics — The action roll, momentum, progress tracks, condition meters, impacts, equipment, and oracles
• Your Character — Stats, condition meters, momentum, assets, vehicles, legacy tracks, and character creation
• Moves — All 56 moves across 12 categories: Session, Adventure, Quest, Connection, Exploration, Combat, Suffer, Recover, Threshold, Legacy, Fate, Scene Challenge
• Setting Truths — 14 categories that define your campaign’s history, culture, and technology
• Encounters — 23 sample NPCs, creatures, machines, and horrors for GMs to draw on
• Vehicle Assets — Command vehicles and support vehicles
• Deed Assets — Earned through play, not chosen at creation
• Companion Assets — Allies, pets, bots, and symbiotes
• Module Assets — Starship upgrades and add-ons
• Path Assets — All 46 character specializations, from Ace to Weapon Master
• Oracle Tables — All 16 oracle categories: randomness and creative prompts for every aspect of play
• Character Sheet — Blank character sheet (printable) with interactive generator

Rules Data

Machine-readable JSON for tools and widgets:

• moves.json — structured moves data: typed triggers, roll options, and strong/weak/miss outcomes
• rules.json — condition meters, impacts, progress tracks, stats, and tags
• truths.json — the 14 setting truth categories, their options, and quest starters
• encounters.json — the 23 sample NPCs, their features, drives, tactics, and variants
• command-vehicle.json / support-vehicle.json — vehicle assets
• deed.json — deed assets
• companion.json — companion assets
• module.json — module assets
• path-1.json, path-2.json, path-3.json, path-4.json — path assets (split across 4 files, 46 assets total)
• core.json — Action, Theme, Descriptor, Focus
• campaign-launch.json — Background Assets, Backstory Prompts, Starship History, Starship Quirks, Sector Trouble, Inciting Incident
• characters.json — names, first look, disposition, role, goal, revealed aspect
• creatures.json — environment, scale, basic form, first look, behavior, revealed aspect
• derelicts.json — Location, Condition, First Look, and Derelict Type/Zone tables
• derelicts-zones.json — Area, Feature, Peril, Opportunity tables for all 8 derelict zones
• misc.json — Story Complication, Story Clue, Anomaly Effect, Combat Action
• move-oracles.json — Ask the Oracle and 8 move-linked prompt tables
• factions.json — Faction type, influence, dominion, guild, fringe group, projects, relationships, quirks, rumors, and name generation
• location-themes.json — Theme type plus feature/peril/opportunity tables for 8 location themes
• settlements.json — Settlement population, location, first look, initial contact, authority, projects, trouble, and name generation
• space.json — Space sightings, sector names, stellar objects, spaceborne peril and opportunity
• starships.json — Starship mission, type, fleet, contact, first look, and name generation
• vaults.json — Precursor Vault location, scale, form, shape, material, and exterior/interior/sanctum tables
• planet-types.json — Settlements, sample names, atmosphere, observed from space, feature, and life tables for all 11 planetary classes
• planets.json — Planetary class, planetside peril, and planetside opportunity