Dragonstar is a futuristic magic-meets-machine campaign setting created by Fantasy Flight Games for Wizards of the Coast's D20 role-playing game system. The setting describes a galaxy under the dominion of the Dragon Empire. The Dragon Empire is a huge bureaucracy, ruled over by the ten houses of dragons, five chromatic, five metallic, led by Mezzenbone, a red dragon of immense might and evil disposition, who sometimes travels on board The Maleficant, one of the few remaining Dreadnought class ships. A campaign setting is a fictional fantasy world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame. ... Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) is a Roseville, Minnesota-based game company that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games. ... Wizards of the Coast (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is a publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes. ... d20 redirects here. ... A role-playing game system is a set of game mechanics used in a role-playing game (RPG). ... NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 17,000 parsecs in diameter and approximately 20 million parsecs distant. ... Draconomicon image of the Chromatic and Metallic Dragons In modern fantasy fiction, dragons are often depicted as having many different races, each usually based on a particular color of their scales or an affinity with an element; much of this originated in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) role-playing game... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Across the galaxy, the same fantasy races are found to inhabiting countless worlds, sometimes living in great technical civilisations or magically advanced medieval cultures. When the inhabitants of many of these worlds took to the stars by magic or machine (usually both), they were amazed by their similarities. Even their languages were the same, although different dialects had evolved on the various worlds. Both scientists and archmages alike tried to come up with a logical explanation of why most worlds were almost the same, but they were stumped. Eventually, a predominant religious leader of unknown origin emerged and proposed that all the gods of every religion were the same, just different aspects of the twelve "True Gods" and their hybrid faiths. Thus the Unification Church was born. Many fantasy stories and worlds call their main sapient humanoid species races rather than species. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times. ...

The Dragonstar setting can easily combine preexisting D20 material and settings. A PC group can be comprised of character races and classes of any combination and be rationally integrated with little work. It is similar to the classic Spelljammer setting by TSR, although Spelljammer was essentially "fantasy in space", with all space travel explained through magic rather than technology, Dragonstar is more science fantasy; fighters use lasers and grenades and characters fly in starships through solar systems. The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Spelljammer (1989) is a campaign setting for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (2nd edition) role playing game, which features a fantastical (as opposed to scientific) outer space environment. ... TSR, Inc. ... Science fantasy is a mixed genre of story which contains some science fiction and some fantasy elements. ...

External links

• Fantasy Flight Games' Dragonstar homepage
• Dragonstar: Dark Star
• Knightfall's Realmsian Dragonstar