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Fuzion
''Fuzion'' is a generic role-playing game system created by the collaboration of R. Talsorian Games and Hero Games. The rights to Fuzion are jointly held by Mike Pondsmith of R. Talsorian Games, along with Steve Peterson and Ray Greer of Hero Games. ''Fuzion'' is a combination of the Interlock System, (used in games like ''Mekton'' and ''Cyberpunk 2020''), and the HERO system (used in ''Champions'', '' Justice, Inc.'', '' Star Hero'', etc.). ''Fuzion'' is an adaptable system which can be played in any genre and setting imaginable. ''Fuzion'' is noted for its anime-genre support, customizable rules flexibility, and being one of the first generic game systems to be released for free over the internet. It is one of the first games to readily allow licensing, albeit not the "hands-off" licensing offered by the Open Gaming License (OGL) that came about some years later. A modified OGL set of rules based on ''Fuzion'' is published by Gold Rush Games as the ''Action! System''. There ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Generic Role-playing Game System
A ''generic'' or ''universal'' role-playing game system is a role-playing game system designed to be independent of setting and genre. Its rules should, in theory, work the same way for any setting, world, environment or genre in which one would want to play. History The term "generic" has been used since the earliest days of gaming to describe a system that can be used for any type or style of game. There is some dispute among role-playing enthusiasts on when the concept of a generic system originated and which was the first one published. According to Shannon Appelcline, Chaosium's ''Basic Role-Playing'' (''BRP'', 1980), was the first generic role-playing system. ''BRP'' was a "cut-down" version of Chaosium's ''RuneQuest'' role-playing game and formed the foundation for the ''Stormbringer'' RPG, and was also adopted for '' Call of Cthulhu'', the first horror role-playing game. The publication of ''GURPS'' (''Generic Universal Role-Playing System'', 1986) as a completely setting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Pondsmith
Michael Alyn Pondsmith is an American Role-playing game, roleplaying, Board game, board, and video game designer. He is best known for founding the publisher R. Talsorian Games in 1982, where he developed a majority of the company's role-playing game lines. Pondsmith is the author of several RPG lines, including ''Mekton'' (1984), ''Cyberpunk 2020, Cyberpunk'' (1988) and ''Castle Falkenstein (role-playing game), Castle Falkenstein'' (1994). He also contributed to the Forgotten Realms and Oriental Adventures lines of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game, worked in various capacities on video games, and authored or co-created several board games. Pondsmith also worked as an instructor at the DigiPen Institute of Technology. Early life and education Born into a military family, Mike Pondsmith was the son of a psychologist and an Air Force officer, who traveled around the world with the U.S. Air Force for the first 18 years of his life. He graduated from the University of Cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hero Games
Hero Games (''DOJ, Inc dba Hero Games'') is the publisher of the Hero System, a generic roleplaying rules set that can be used to simulate many different genres, and was the co-developer of the ''Fuzion'' system. History In 1981, George MacDonald and Steve Peterson, from San Mateo, California, printed 1,000 copies of a 64-page rulebook for Champions, their super-hero role-playing game, to take to a Bay Area gaming convention. It sold very strongly, enough to form a company, Hero Games. Later, the pair recruited Ray Greer as their sales and marketing partner. In the following years, the company published two more editions of Champions, two dozen adventures, and several self-contained role-playing games using the Champions core rules as a universal role-playing system: Danger International, Justice, Inc., Robot Warriors, Fantasy Hero and Star Hero. The games were very compatible, but each differed slightly, using new rules or costs. Hero Games used the term Hero System to de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Greer
Ray Greer is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career By 1982 George MacDonald and Steve Peterson opened up an office for their company Hero Games and asked player Ray Greer to join them as a partner and to handle marketing and sales. By 1986, Greer moved first to Steve Jackson Games and then to Mark Williams' special effects company. After Peterson founded the company Hero Software and gathered together a team to create a ''Champions'' computer game, Greer joined them as well, but the project was never completed. Greer was involved, with Steve Peterson and Bruce Harlick, in the Hero Games partnership with R. Talsorian Games that began in 1996. Mike Pondsmith of R. Talsorian, and Hero Games owners Peterson and Greer built conversion rules to connect up Interlock and Hero Games, resulting in the Fuzion ''Fuzion'' is a generic role-playing game system created by the collaboration of R. Talsorian Games and Hero Games. The rights to Fuzion are jointl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interlock System
The Interlock System is R. Talsorian Games' proprietary role-playing system. History Interlock was a game system by R. Talsorian Games based on a simple system of adding a bonus to a roll on a 10-sided die. '' Mekton II'' (1987) – the third edition of R. Talsorian's mecha game – was the first game to use the full-fledged Interlock system, and featured point-based characters with a character background system adapted from the original ''Mekton'', though in a more complex and comprehensive form called Lifepaths. ''Cyberpunk 2013'' (1988) was the second design to feature R. Talsorian's Interlock system. ''Cyberpunk'' introduced a new combat system to the original Interlock system called "Friday Night Firefight", while the second edition of the game, ''Cyberpunk 2020'' (1990), made further improvements on the Interlock system resulting in what is now known as "Standard Interlock". Interlock is one of the direct parents of the Fuzion system (the other is the Hero System). The Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mekton
''Mekton'' is a role-playing game which centers on the conventions of mecha anime and science fiction (although it can easily enough be adapted to other genres like police drama or high fantasy). It has seen several editions since its introduction in 1984, the most recent, ''Mekton Zeta'' (メクトン Z; a reference to the seminal mecha anime series ''Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam'') being first published in 1994. Mekton was the first anime role-playing game available in North America; the anime influence was muted compared to later editions, but this is in parallel with North America's growing exposure to and awareness of anime in general. The use of katakana to represent the title of the game begins with the "Zeta" edition and may or may not be carried over into future editions. A "fourth edition," usually referred to as ''Mekton Double Zeta'' and assumed to be using the '' Fuzion System'' rules (''Mekton II'' and ''Mekton Z'' use the older ''Interlock System''), has been rumored t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bubblegum Crisis (role-playing Game)
''Bubblegum Crisis'' is a near-future cyberpunk role-playing game published by R. Talsorian Games in 1996 that is based on the anime television series ''Bubblegum Crisis''. Publication history R. Talsorian Games (RTG) had originally been founded by Mike Pondsmith in 1986 to publish the anime role-playing game ''Mekton''. RTG then went on to other non-anime products such as ''Cyberpunk 2020''. It was not until ten years later, in 1996, that RTG re-entered the anime-related role-playing game market with ''Bubblegum Crisis'', the first of several licensed anime properties produced by the company, and the first to use the company's new Fuzion rule system. In the 2014 book ''Designers & Dragons'', author Shannon Applecline said the game "marked a new push into anime for the company, bringing it back to its roots". Description ''Bubblegum Crisis'' is a 188-page softcover book designed by Benjamin Wright, David Ackerman-Gray, Ray Greer, George MacDonald, Steve Peterson, and Mike Pon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyberpunk (role-playing Game)
''Cyberpunk'' is a tabletop role-playing game in the dystopian science fiction genre, written by Mike Pondsmith and first published by R. Talsorian Games in 1988. It is typically referred to by its second or fourth edition names, ''Cyberpunk 2020'' and ''Cyberpunk Red'', in order to distinguish it from the cyberpunk genre after which it is named. Setting ''Cyberpunk'' exists within its own fictional timeline, which splits from the real world in 1990. The timeline has been extended with each major edition of the game, from the first edition set in 2013 to Cyberpunk Red set in 2045. The backstory begins with the USA becoming embroiled in a major conflict in Central America in the 1980s, causing a significant economic collapse ending in a military coup resulting in the European Common Market and Japan as superpowers and the Soviet Union not collapsing. This is coupled with the development of orbital habitats that become independent states and the rise of megacorporations that fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armored Trooper Votoms
is a Japanese military science fiction mecha anime series produced by Nippon Sunrise, created and directed by Ryosuke Takahashi and featuring mechanical designs by Kunio Okawara. Following directly in the footsteps of Takahashi's previous series, ''Fang of the Sun Dougram'', ''VOTOMS'' continued the trend towards hard science in the mecha anime subgenre. The series was supplemented by numerous original video animation releases, and also inspired a number of spin-off works whose media ranges from serialized light novels to video games. The TV anime was originally licensed by the now-defunct Central Park Media who released the series on DVD and VHS. Currently, it is licensed by Maiden Japan, a unit of Section23 Films, who also released all OVAs other than ''Armor Hunter Mellowlink''. Plot In the Astragius Galaxy, the Gilgamesh and Balarant nations had until recently been locked in a century-old galactic war whose cause was long ago forgotten. Now, the war is end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armored Trooper Votoms (role-playing Game)
''Armored Trooper VOTOMS: The Roleplaying Game'' is a role-playing game published by R. Talsorian Games in 1997. Description ''Armored Trooper VOTOMS: The Roleplaying Game'' () is a science fiction game based on the ''Armored Trooper Votoms'' anime, and uses the Fuzion system. Publication history ''Armored Trooper VOTOMS: The Roleplaying Game'' was published by R. Talsorian Games R. Talsorian Games (RTG) is a publisher of role-playing game books and accessories. Originally based in Berkeley, California, but moved to Renton, Washington in 1997. Their titles include the ''Cyberpunk 2020'' series and anime-related titles su ... in 1997. References {{Rpg-stub Mecha role-playing games R. Talsorian Games games Role-playing games based on anime and manga Role-playing games introduced in 1997 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyberpunk 2020
''Cyberpunk'' is a tabletop role-playing game in the dystopian science fiction genre, written by Mike Pondsmith and first published by R. Talsorian Games in 1988. It is typically referred to by its second or fourth edition names, ''Cyberpunk 2020'' and ''Cyberpunk Red'', in order to distinguish it from the cyberpunk genre after which it is named. Setting ''Cyberpunk'' exists within its own fictional timeline, which splits from the real world in 1990. The timeline has been extended with each major edition of the game, from the first edition set in 2013 to Cyberpunk Red set in 2045. The backstory begins with the USA becoming embroiled in a major conflict in Central America in the 1980s, causing a significant economic collapse ending in a military coup resulting in the European Common Market and Japan as superpowers and the Soviet Union not collapsing. This is coupled with the development of orbital habitats that become independent states and the rise of megacorporations that f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hero System
The ''Hero System'' is a generic role-playing game system that was developed from the superhero RPG ''Champions''. After ''Champions'' fourth edition was released in 1989, a stripped-down version of its ruleset with no superhero or other genre elements was released as The ''Hero System Rulesbook'' in 1990. As a spinoff of ''Champions'', the ''Hero System'' is considered to have started with 4th edition (as it is mechanically identical to ''Champions'' 4th edition), rather than on its own with a 1st edition. However, the first three editions of the game are typically referred to as ''Champions'', rather than the Hero System, as the game for its first three editions was not sold as a universal toolkit, instead largely focusing on superheroes. The ''Hero System'' is used as the underlying mechanics of other Hero Games role-playing games such as ''Fantasy Hero'', ''Star Hero'', and ''Pulp Hero''. It is characterized by point-based character creation and the rigor with which it me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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