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Fantasy Games Unlimited
Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU) is a publishing house for tabletop and role-playing games. The company has no in-house design teams and relies on submitted material from outside talent. History Founded in the summer of 1975 in Jericho, New York by Scott Bizar, the company's first publications were the wargames ''Gladiators'' and ''Royal Armies of the Hyborean Age''. Upon the appearance and popularity of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' from TSR, the company turned its attentions to role-playing games, seeking and producing systems from amateurs and freelancers, paying them 10% of the gross receipts. FGU also copyrighted their games in the name of the designer so that the designer would receive any additional royalties for licensed figurines and other uses. Rather than focusing on one line and supporting it with supplements, FGU produced a stream of new games. Because of the disparate authors, the rules systems were incompatible. FGU Incorporated published dozens of role-playing games. Fant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Bizar
Scott B. Bizar is the founder of Fantasy Games Unlimited, a game publisher which contracts writers and artists that work primarily on role-playing games. Career Scott Bizar, dissatisfied with TSR's ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (1974) and '' Warriors of Mars'' (1974), founded his own company, Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU). The company's first two products were Hugh McGowan's ''Gladiators'' (1975), a man-to-man miniatures combat system, and ''Royal Armies of the Hyborean Age'' (1975), a first-of-its kind wargame set in the world of Conan, was co-designed by Bizar's roommate, Lin Carter. At Gen Con IX in 1976, Edward E. Simbalist and Wilf K. Backhaus met Bizar, who was interested in their role-playing game ''Chevalier'' they had brought with them but decided not to sell to TSR; Bizar helped guide the game to print over the next year as '' Chivalry & Sorcery'', the first RPG from FGU. In the late 1970s, Bizar was looking for a new science-fiction roleplaying game to act as one of FGU's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down Styphon!
''Down Styphon!'' is a miniatures wargame published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1977. Description The '' Musket & Pike'' rules for simulating battles of the 16th and 17th centuries with 15mm miniature soldiers had originally been published in 1973 by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI). Using modified ''Musket & Pike'' rules, Mike Gilbert designed ''Down Styphon!'', a miniatures wargame that is based the battles described in H. Beam Piper's novel ''Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen''. Reception In the November-December 1977 edition of ''The Space Gamer'' (Issue No. 14), Tony Watson thought the game, although well-written, was just okay, saying, "The rules themselves are good, faithful to their inspiration. They are not very innovative, but they certainly provide all major components thus giving the players some interesting and accurate miniatures battles." In the October 1979 edition of ''Dragon A dragon is a reptilian legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many culture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psi World (role-playing Game)
''Psi World'' is a role-playing game published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1984. Description ''Psi World'' is a science-fiction system set approximately in the 21st century and featuring the widespread use of psionic powers. Psionic characters (like the Player character, PCs) are oppressed by an intolerant society and the government. The rules cover character creation, skills, psionic powers, combat, and "the World." The game includes two introductory scenarios and a GM's screen. Publication history ''Psi World'' was designed by Del Carr and Cheron Carr, Cheron, with art by Bill Willingham and Matt Wagner, and was published in 1984 by Fantasy Games Unlimited as a boxed set with a 32-page book, a 30-page book, a cardstock screen, a sample character sheet, and dice. In 1985, William H. Keith, Jr. and J. Andrew Keith expanded into Fantasy Games Unlimited's game lines including ''Psi World''. Reception Chris Baylis reviewed ''Psi World'' for ''Imagine (AD&D magazine), Imagine'' m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privateers & Gentlemen
''Privateers and Gentlemen'' is a role-playing game by author Walter Jon Williams, published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1983. Williams based this game on his own historical nautical adventure novels set in the late 18th century "Age of Fighting Sail", and he also incorporated his previously published miniatures game ''Heart of Oak'' with a new role-playing system where the player characters are naval officers. The game received positive reviews in game periodicals including ''Dragon'', ''White Dwarf'', and ''Different Worlds''. Description ''Privateers and Gentlemen'' is a historical naval game system set in the late 18th century during the days of Admiral Horatio Nelson and C.S. Forrester's fictional Captain Horatio Hornblower, sometimes called the "Age of Fighting Sail". The system describes both a role-playing system where players take the roles of naval officers, and a naval miniatures combat system. The game components are: *''Heart of Oak'', a 48-page booklet containing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Other Suns
''Other Suns'' is a science-fiction role-playing game published by Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU) in 1983. Description ''Other Suns'' is a science-fiction space-adventure system of medium complexity.The game includes a dozen alien races that resemble humanoid Earth animals such as cats, foxes, and bears. Character creation requires the calculation of two dozen attributes and abilities. Combat covers many options for offense and defense, but is complex. Other rules cover skills, psionics, careers, experience, and other technology. Game critic Rick Swan found the section of spaceship design "difficult to use." The section on world-building goes into great detail on some physical aspects of planets. Publication history ''Other Suns'' was designed by Niall C. Shapero, and was published in 1983 by FGU as a boxed set with a 72-page book, a 64-page book, a cardstock gamemaster's screen, and a sample character sheet. An additional article entitled "''Luna, The Empire and the Stars''" b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |