Space:1889 Published Game Materials

Shifting Sands

Player Guide

There have been three releases by three different publishers of tabletop game materials in the Space:1889 setting. Note that there will be details in many of the materials below which will not be true or accurate in the Shifting Sands universe.

Original GDW release:

Title	Type	Author	Notes
Space:1889	Rulebook	Frank Chadwick	The core rulebook for the role-playing game
Tales from the Ether	Adventures	(ed) Frank Chadwick and Loren Wiseman	Five adventures set on the planets and the British orbital heliograph station.
More Tales from the Ether	Adventures	(ed) Frank Chadwick and Loren Wiseman	More short adventures on Mars and Venus.
Beastmen of Mars	Adventures	Lester Smith	A campaign dealing with debased Martians, liftwood, and some mysteries of the planets.
Canal Priests of Mars	Adventures	Marcus Rowland	A campaign that begins on the Earth, includes a voyage by ether liner to Mars, and concludes with a twist ending. The published version cut about a third of the author’s manuscript; Heliograph finally published the complete adventure as a PDF in July 2009, with a printed version to follow in August 2009. The Complete Canal Priests of Mars restores all of the original text and has new illustrations throughout.
Steppelords of Mars	Source book	John Theisen	Source book on Hill Martian tribes.
Caravans of Mars	Source book	Ed Andrews	Source book on Martian caravans and merchants.
Cloud Captains of Mars	Source book	Frank Chadwick	Details on the sky pirates and privateers of Mars.
Conklin’s Atlas and Handy Manual of the Worlds	Source book	Frank Chadwick	A gazetteer to the planets, including maps and information on Earth.
Soldier’s Companion	Rule book	Frank Chadwick	Rules for colonial ground warfare using miniatures, including detailed army lists, as well as rules for tripods and land juggernauts.
Ironclads and Ether Flyers	Rule book	Frank Chadwick	Rules for surface naval combat, including detailed information about Earth’s navies and flyers. The rules are a simplified version of Sky Galleons of Mars (see below).
The Liftwood Conspiracy	Adventure	(published under license by 3W)	Scenario involving liftwood poaching and the bestial High Martians.
Sky Galleons of Mars	Boxed game	?	Aerial combat on Mars; includes large scale maps, ship miniatures, and rules.
Cloudships and Gunboats	Boxed game	?	Role playing game supplement with mini-scale deckplans, cardstock miniatures, rules, and ship diagrams.
Temple of the Beastmen	Boxed board game	?	Players take the role of one of 10 adventurers leading an expedition into the mines of the sinister Martian King Gnaashriik in an attempt to rescue slaves and gather up loot. The board is made of tiles which are shuffled and placed face-down to form a mine shaft 5 levels deep. Each turn players move through the mines, turning over tiles to create a series of passages and rooms, discovering and fighting off Martian baddies, and grabbing whatever goodies they can find.
Soldiers of the Queen	Adversaries (Miniatures)	RAFM	A "company" of 20 British infantry
Legions of Mars	Adversaries (Miniatures)	RAFM	Warband of 20 Martians
Kraag Warriors	Adversaries (Miniatures)	RAFM	20 High Martians, 10 each flying and walking
Victorian Adventurers	Adversaries (Miniatures)	RAFM	10 personalities, as seen in Temple of the Beastmen

Various issues of GDW's house magazine (Challenge) also contained material.

Heliograph's magazine Transactions of the Royal Martian Geographical Society provided additional game material.

Pinnacle Entertainment

Space 1889: Red Sands A Savage Worlds Plot Point Campaign

A full-color hardback published in 2012. The campaign "pits a desperate band of heroes against the Inner Circle of the Brotherhood of Luxor. The Brotherhood, led by the mysterious Kronos, King of the Titans, plots to bring about the end of all worlds."

Uhrwerk Verlag / Clockwork Publishing

A licensed German translation (with unsurprisingly less focus on British heroism and German villainy) was published in 2012. A number of additional sourcebooks and adventure modules in German have been published.

A highly successful 2013 Kickstarter was based on publishing an English translation of the German books (really). Although there have been many delays, the following have been released to date: