Oversize 10"x14" Hardcover

The tiny speck of the first colonization starship moved sluggishly through the cold depths of space. There was much mankind didn’t know about the stars, and one of those mysterious effects slashed into the starship Warden 300 years ago. Now the ship drifted through the darkness, lost and in trouble. While many intelligences move about its decks, none of them work to help the starship find its way.

Generations later, you are a native on the starship Warden. As a true human, mutant, or robot, you fight to survive, unaware that the radiation-saturated world around you is in fact a starship, one of mankind’s greatest achievements. Can you uncover the secrets of the starship Warden and steer it back on course, or will you simply try to live another day?

The very first sci-fi RPG returns in a deluxe oversized hardcover featuring the original 1976 rules plus loads of extras and new material! This is a 136-page compilation of the original 1976 edition of Metamorphosis Alpha, plus the supporting articles from Dragon magazine, introductions by Tim Kask and Jon Peterson, all-new monsters and NPCs by James M. Ward, and new adventure modules by James M. Ward, Michael Curtis, and Jobe Bittman. It features the very first publication ever of Mr. Ward’s original playtest notes for the 1976 edition of the world’s most first science fiction RPG!

The Deluxe Collector’s Edition includes:
* Oversized hardcover printed at 10.5″ x 14″.
* Easier-to-read enlarged original MA reprinting.
* 136 pages of content.
* Jim Ward’s original playtest notes.
* “Coming of Age” adventure.
* Expanded encounter tables.
* Appendix N section.

136 pages, oversized hardcover format, 10.5”x 14” with satin ribbon bookmark

Oversize 10"x14" hardcover with gold foil

This is the gold foil edition of the Metamorphosis Alpha Deluxe Collector’s Edition. The content is the same as the color cover, but the cover features a reflective gold-foil image on a leatherette surface.

The tiny speck of the first colonization starship moved sluggishly through the cold depths of space. There was much mankind didn’t know about the stars, and one of those mysterious effects slashed into the starship Warden 300 years ago. Now the ship drifted through the darkness, lost and in trouble. While many intelligences move about its decks, none of them work to help the starship find its way.

Generations later, you are a native on the starship Warden. As a true human, mutant, or robot, you fight to survive, unaware that the radiation-saturated world around you is in fact a starship, one of mankind’s greatest achievements. Can you uncover the secrets of the starship Warden and steer it back on course, or will you simply try to live another day?

The very first sci-fi RPG returns in a deluxe oversized hardcover featuring the original 1976 rules plus loads of extras and new material! This is a 136-page compilation of the original 1976 edition of Metamorphosis Alpha, plus the supporting articles from Dragon magazine, introductions by Tim Kask and Jon Peterson, all-new monsters and NPCs by James M. Ward, and new adventure modules by James M. Ward, Michael Curtis, and Jobe Bittman. It features the very first publication ever of Mr. Ward’s original playtest notes for the 1976 edition of the world’s most first science fiction RPG!

The Deluxe Collector’s Gold Foil Edition includes:
* Gold foil-stamped cover.
* Oversized hardcover printed at 10.5″ x 14″.
* Easier-to-read enlarged original MA reprinting.
* 136 pages of content.
* Jim Ward’s original playtest notes.
* “Coming of Age” adventure.
* Expanded encounter tables.
* Appendix N section.

136 pages, oversized hardcover format, 10.5”x14” with satin ribbon bookmark, special gold foil cover.

An Adventure for the Original 1976 Edition of Metamorphosis Alpha

An all-new adventure for Metamorphosis Alpha, the first sci-fi RPG created by James M. Ward in 1976!

The Knower of All Things has been kidnapped! Mysterious agents have abducted the village shaman in the dead of night, leaving a hideous trail in their wake. Now it is up to the bravest and strongest members of the tribe to rescue the shaman before he falls victim to his captors’ nefarious plans. Before their journey is through, the village heroes will find themselves in an undreamt-of place, battling faceless foes. Is your mutant up to the challenge?

This adventure module is designed for Metamorphosis Alpha first edition, as originally published in 1976 and re-published by Goodman Games in 2014.

Rules Set: Metamorphosis Alpha 1st edition

Writer: Michael Curtis
Cover artist and cartographer: Doug Kovacs
Interior artists: Doug Kovacs, Stefan Poag
Metamorphosis Alpha created by James M. Ward

16 Scenes to Show Players

This booklet contains 16 illustrations suitable for showing players in a Metamorphosis Alpha session. Each image was described by James M. Ward then illustrated by Jim Holloway. It’s up to the gamemaster to determine how they’re used in his adventures!

Writer: James M. Ward
Artist: Jim Holloway

Among the descendants of the original passengers of the Starship Warden, a spiritual belief system has flowered that began as a form of ancestor worship. So when an unexpected holo-egg projects a larger-than-life vision of Captain Jameson – one of the five original captains of the Warden – the rag-tag assemblage of humans and mutants are sent on a mission that’s more than just an adventure or a meal ticket. It’s a holy quest to the bowels of the cargo decks, where the lucky will find ancient technological marvels beyond imagining, and the unwary will find a killing field 34 miles wide.

Writer: Jim Wampler
Cover artist: Doug Kovacs
Cartographer: Mark Allen

Dealing with the unexpected is a constant game feature in Metamorphosis Alpha. The creatures and devices presented in this product add a lot of spice to a game that is already filled with dangers and interesting encounters. Everyone who has played Metamorphosis Alpha knows that Wolfoids are bad news no matter how polite and agreeable they present themselves to a party. Enjoy what you can of this material and run like crazy from the rest.

This sourcebook presents 12 new creatures for Metamorphosis Alpha, as well as more than two dozen new gadgets, ranging from hand-held devices to new vehicles!

Writer: James M. Ward
Cover artist: Doug Kovacs

This is the only home you’ve ever known. They call it the Silver Waste—a desert sea of silvery dunes blasted by endless sandstorms during the day and freezing temperatures at night. For generations, your tribe has clung to life in a concrete building subsisting on the trickle of edible goo spewing from a broken replicator. You and the other hunters vie against rival mutant tribes and hungry scorplions in the scant hours between storms searching for fresh game and wondrous devices from a bygone age of technology. Is this all there is to life? No one that treks more than a couple miles from home ever returns. Everyone says they are dead, but that can’t be true. Not all of them. What if there is a way through the giant impassable wall to the south? What if there is an easier way of life beyond the dunes? You’ve hoarded water and rations for weeks waiting for the right moment to set your plan into motion...

Writer: Jobe Bittman
Cover artist: Doug Kovacs
Cartographer: Doug Kovacs

Legendary game designer James M. Ward brings you Doom on the Warden, a Metamorphosis Alpha adventure of horror in space. The adventure includes pre-generated characters, and is playable as part of a campaign or as stand-alone play. Doom on the Warden is a new frontier for Metamorphosis Alpha, in both style and substance, and for the first time the pre-generated characters include wolfoids!

Written for the original 1976 edition of Metamorphosis Alpha, this adventure expands on the mysterious involvement of Earth’s military aboard the starship Warden. There is new information on what happened in the Warden’s early days. Unraveling the mystery sends the characters through 4 distinct geographical regions, into the secret military command dome, and beyond. Along the way, they will be confronted by threats old and new across 54 possible encounter areas.

A Derelict City on a Colony Ship Hurtling Through Space!

On a spaceship 50 miles long with more than a million colonists, Epsilon City was the single largest habitation. It was filled with entertainment centers, apartments, and offices for all the people moving about the ship during the long voyage. The city was designed to be maintained by its own artificial intelligence (A.I.) and a special series of robots that could repair areas of the city when breakdowns happened.

Epsilon City was less than half full when an interstellar radiation cloud destroyed the people of the ship and turned 99% of them into piles of white ash. The city was wiped out. Now, three hundred years later, things are vastly different in the city. The A.I. is insane and has an aggressive personality. The special robots have had to change or be destroyed, and have mutated much like the rest of the life on the ship. Wolfoid packs now inhabit many sections of the city and consider this metropolis their lair. And many more dangers lurk, hidden and waiting to be explored.

The original edition of Metamorphosis Alpha has celebrated its 40th anniversary! In honor of this milestone, creator James M. Ward has authorized Goodman Games to publish Metamorphosis Alpha: Epsilon City.

This huge expansion for the starship Warden is the biggest expansion for the original 1976 edition ever published!

This is the special gold foil edition of Epsilon City! Contained in the same attractive box as the regular edition, it contains a hardcover edition bound with gold foil imprint, as well as the box’s other contents!

On a spaceship 50 miles long with more than a million colonists, Epsilon City was the single largest habitation. It was filled with entertainment centers, apartments, and offices for all the people moving about the ship during the long voyage. The city was designed to be maintained by its own artificial intelligence (A.I.) and a special series of robots able to maintain areas of the city when breakdowns happened.

Epsilon City wasn’t even half full when the interstellar radiation cloud destroyed the people of the ship and turned 99% of them into piles of white ash. The city was wiped out. Now, three hundred years later, things are vastly different in the city. The A.I. is insane and has an aggressive personality. The special robots have had to change or be destroyed, and have mutated much like the rest of the life on the ship. Wolfoid packs now inhabit many sections of the city and consider this metropolis their lair. And many more dangers lurk, hidden and waiting to be explored…

2016 marks the 40th anniversary of Metamorphosis Alpha! In honor of this milestone, creator James M. Ward has authorized Goodman Games to publish Metamorphosis Alpha: Epsilon City. This huge expansion for the starship Warden is the biggest expansion for the original 1976 edition ever published!

This box contains: The 272-page spiral-bound hardcover Epsilon City setting book, three 11”x17” maps, a 20-page cyborg supplement, and a 56-page adventure supplement.

Written by James M. Ward, and Jobe Bittman, Michael Curtis, Jon Hook, and Jim Wampler

This is the special leatherbound edition of Epsilon City! Contained in the same attractive box as the regular edition, it contains a hardcover edition bound with real leather with a foil imprint, as well as the box’s other contents!

On a spaceship 50 miles long with more than a million colonists, Epsilon City was the single largest habitation. It was filled with entertainment centers, apartments, and offices for all the people moving about the ship during the long voyage. The city was designed to be maintained by its own artificial intelligence (A.I.) and a special series of robots able to maintain areas of the city when breakdowns happened.

Epsilon City wasn’t even half full when the interstellar radiation cloud destroyed the people of the ship and turned 99% of them into piles of white ash. The city was wiped out. Now, three hundred years later, things are vastly different in the city. The A.I. is insane and has an aggressive personality. The special robots have had to change or be destroyed, and have mutated much like the rest of the life on the ship. Wolfoid packs now inhabit many sections of the city and consider this metropolis their lair. And many more dangers lurk, hidden and waiting to be explored…

2016 marks the 40th anniversary of Metamorphosis Alpha! In honor of this milestone, creator James M. Ward has authorized Goodman Games to publish Metamorphosis Alpha: Epsilon City. This huge expansion for the starship Warden is the biggest expansion for the original 1976 edition ever published!

This box contains: The 272-page spiral-bound hardcover Epsilon City setting book, three 11”x17” maps, a 20-page cyborg supplement, and a 56-page adventure supplement.

Written by James M. Ward, and Jobe Bittman, Michael Curtis, Jon Hook, and Jim Wampler

Venture into forgotten territory!

When a long-sealed section of the Warden is opened and a renowned explorer goes missing, new opportunities arise for adventure and danger. Rumor has it that one of the fabled Command Rings, potent artifacts of old that grants the wearer complete control over the drifting starship, lies waiting for the taking beyond the forbidding gate. Does your band of daring explorers have what it takes to overcome the threats of The Level of the Lost and claim the ring for themselves?

This adventure contains new mutants, new artifacts, and new dangers for the original version of Metamorphosis Alpha.

Writer: Michael Curtis
Cover artist: Doug Kovacs
Cartographer: Mark Allen

A Solo Adventure

This short adventure is designed to be run solo, or can also be used in a traditional Metamorphosis Alpha game.

From the foreword by author James M. Ward:

"I have never written an MA adventure like this one before. In the fourth version of the MA rules I presented a storyline where the ship runs into an invisible asteroid filled with mushroom and crystal life forms. That storyline has always needed a transition piece that ties the starship Warden into the asteroid. This is that adventure. Take any of your characters from pure strain humans to androids or robots and introduce them to the little valley where the new hole in the ship is presented.One of the unusual features of this product is that this game can be run solo. All you have to do is use a strong character and pay attention to the numbers and you can test out the adventure all by yourself. You can then turn around and run it for any number of friends."

Writer: James M. Ward
Cover artist: Doug Kovacs

A Character Sourcebook

This incredibly useful supplement features more than 200 new mutations for Metamorphosis Alpha!

From the foreword by James M. Ward:

"This is the one product that MA players have been asking for since the game came out 38 years ago. Mutations are fun to play and fun for the Game Master to run as well.I feel the need to tell a Gary Gygax story here. He honored me by often asking me to run an MA game for his friends. Although Gary played lots of different characters from robots and androids to pure humans, every time he rolled up a mutant, one of the mental abilities of that mutant was TOTAL HEALING.

I would explain to Gary that TOTAL HEALING wasn’t one of the mental choices. He would explain right back to me that it was in his rulebook. I would look at his book and he had written in pencil the TOTAL HEALING choice. I wouldn’t let him use that mutation and the debate would rage for a few minutes until he had to give in. At that time he would always say, “Jim your game will never be complete until the TOTAL HEALING mutation is added to the rules.”

As the years went by and new editions came out he would write in TOTAL HEALING in every booklet and I wouldn’t let him have it. The debate would begin again. As we put together this book, I felt I didn’t have a choice. To honor the best RPG designer in this or any other time, I added TOTAL HEALING."

Now the game is officially complete.

Lead designer: James M. Ward
Additional design: James M. Ward, Marv Breig, Jon “tacojohn” Hershberger, Craig J. Brain, Michael Curtis, Jim Wampler, Jon Hook, Jobe Bittman, Dieter Zimmerman, Gary Gygax
Cover artist: Doug Kovacs

When the colonization starship Warden entered a radiation cloud, every aspect of the ship was corrupted or drastically transformed. The biological mutations have been discussed at length. But the impact on the thousands of robots onboard has never been fully explored!

The starship Warden carried robots stored away to help humankind settle a new world, huge factories intended to manufacture still more useful robots, and automated terraforming machines ready to start work. When the ship passed through the radiation cloud, most of these electronic intelligences went insane!

In Robots Among Us, Metamorphosis Alpha creator James M. Ward provides 17 encounters built around the simple concept of “robots gone awry.” Ranging from a corrupted nanny unit to an angry self-aware war-tank, these encounters will give your players hours of new excitement!

Writer: James M. Ward
Cover artist: William McAusland

20 pages

A Series of Encounters

This adventure module contains eight two-page mini-encounters that provide all the material that a Game Master needs to run several fun evenings’ worth of adventures. These adventures are designed to be placed anywhere on the Starship Warden. They can be run individually or connected together as part of a larger game.

Writer: James M. Ward
Cover artist: Doug Kovacs
Cartographer: Mark Allen

This sourcebook includes more than 150 pieces of new combat equipment for Metamorphosis Alpha! Dozens and dozens of weapons, plus armor and shields; bots, droids, and drones; vehicles and exo-skeletons; and a few other miscellaneous items.

From the foreword by author James M. Ward:

"This is a work of science fiction. The premise is that several cargo holds were filled with useful equipment for a planetary colonization effort, but unknown to the colonists, another hold was filled with powerful military weapons. The military commanders of the colonization starship Warden were the only ones who knew where this special cache was located.This book is intended to stimulate adventures and quests to find and use all of this equipment. It doesn’t matter what set of role-playing rules are used. Just trying to figure out how to use all of the interesting equipment is enough reason to play with this booklet. However, imagine the fun when a group of crazed mutants starts attacking using powerful suits of armor making them stronger and leap incredible distances. Player characters will want to find equipment like that for themselves. Such an effort instantly spawns a fun adventure quest. Or strange robots in the shape of dogs and giant snakes start attacking your town. You need to find out where they come from before they inflict any more damage – the trail leads… that way.

The booklet contains countless adventure possibilities. Whether your characters are primitive tribesmen on the Warden or newly woken soldiers in cold sleep for three hundred years, the Game Master will find this a perfect supplement for high adventure."

Writer: James M. Ward
Cover artist: Doug Kovacs

Life is cruel and unforgiving, which is why you banded together to survive the hostilities of the world around you. One such hostility is One-Nineteen, a sentient computer that is now determined to fulfill its programming, regardless of how many humans must die in the process. One-Nineteen employs mutant thugs to capture humans for its fiendish plans involving a biological reclamation facility that transforms biological matter into a protein rich food bar. Soon you’ll find the answer to: What are the prisoners of Rec-Loc-119?

This adventure makes use of the robot rules presented in Dragon #14 and reprinted in the Metamorphosis Alpha Deluxe Collector’s Edition!

Writer: Jon Hook
Cover artist: Doug Kovacs
Cartographer: Mark Allen