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Duel (role-playing Game)
''Duel'' is a combat-focused role-playing game published by Nightshift Games in 1992. Description ''Duel'', a game of tactical combat-oriented role-playing, is a 36-page 8.5" x 11" book written by Paul Arden Lidberg and Raymond Greer, with cover art by Phil Morrissey, and interior art by Morrissey, Margaret Schnepf Carspecken, and Marty Salzman. It was published by Nightshift Games in 1992. (Some sources say another company associated with Lidberg, Crunchy Frog Enterprises, was the publisher.) In addition to the role-playing game rules, the book includes a four-page sample adventure. In an interview, Lidberg said that ''Duel'' was meant to emulate Steve Jackson (USA), Steve Jackson's out-of-print game ''The Fantasy Trip'' (''TFT''), designed while Jackson was at Metagaming; ''TFT'' itself was based on two of Jackson's earlier Metagaming MicroGames of tactical individual combat, ''Melee (game), Melee'' and ''Wizard (board game), Wizard''. Gameplay ''Duel'' uses only 5-sided dice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duel Deluxe, Role-playing Game
A duel is an arranged engagement in combat between two people, with matched weapons, in accordance with agreed-upon Code duello, rules. During the 17th and 18th centuries (and earlier), duels were mostly single combats fought with swords (the rapier and later the small sword), but beginning in the late 18th century in England, duels were more commonly fought using pistols. Fencing and shooting continued to co-exist throughout the 19th century. The duel was based on a Code of conduct, code of honor. Duels were fought not so much to kill the opponent as to gain "satisfaction", that is, to restore one's honor by demonstrating a willingness to risk one's life for it, and as such the tradition of dueling was originally reserved for the male members of nobility; however, in the modern era, it extended to those of the upper classes generally. On occasion, duels with swords or pistols were fought between women. Legislation against dueling goes back to the medieval period. The Fourth Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
