Rhand: Morningstar Missions

Rhand: Morningstar Missions was written by edited by Barray Nakazono and Robert Calvet, and was published by Leading Edge Games in 1985 as a 104-page book.^[2]

Shannon Appelcline explained that two combat systems from different versions of LEG's Sword's Path: Glory "came together in Rhand: Morningstar Missions (1984), the company's first truly comprehensive RPG and its first focused setting." Appelcline noted that the magic rules for Rhand and many its other elements were originally planned to be used in volumes of Sword's Path: Glory which were never published, and felt that "the book showed LEG's future not just as a publisher of realistic combat systems, but also vibrant and original settings. We'll see these trends fulfilled in Leading Edge's second era of publication." Appelcline contended that Leading Edge's early publication history was defined by fantasy role-playing games such as Sword's Path: Glory and Rhand: Morningstar Missions.^[3]: 176 Appelcline noted that the Hand-to-Hand Combat System (1988) for Phoenix Command was responsible for "finally replacing older rules from Sword's Path: Glory or Rhand: Morningstar Missions".^[3]: 179 Appelcline also concluded that the company's next role-playing game, Living Steel "owed a lot to Rhand: Morningstar Missions" as it was set on Rhand hundreds of years before the previous version of the setting, when the Spectrals were just beginning their invasion of the planet.^[3]: 180

Rhand: Morningstar Missions was reviewed in Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer No. 80.^[1] The reviewer commented that "Like the entire system, it's okay but nothing worth going out of your way to get."^[1]