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Land Of Ninja
''Land of Ninja'' is a supplement published under license by Avalon Hill in 1987 for Chaosium's fantasy role-playing game ''RuneQuest''. Description ''Land of Ninja'' provides a medieval Japanese setting for ''RuneQuest'' called "Nihon". The 1987 Avalon Hill edition was published as a boxed set that contained * a 72-page book for players titled "Book of the Samurai": Nihon character creation, occupations, skills, religion, magic, travel, samurai, and ninja * a 32-page book for the gamemaster titled "Book of the World": Nihon civilization, history, and creatures * a 24-page book of scenarios title "Scenario Book": planning a campaign, two short introductory scenarios, one full-length scenario ("The Hatamoto's Illness) * a 16-page book titled "Nihon Digest" that contains pre-generated characters for use in the included scenarios. Publication history Chaosium originally published ''Runequest'' in 1978, and quickly followed this with a second edition the following year. Then in an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avalon Hill
Avalon Hill Games Inc. is a game company that publishes wargames and strategic board games. It has also published miniature wargaming rules, role-playing games and sports simulations. It is a subsidiary of Hasbro, and operates under the company's "Hasbro Gaming" division. Avalon Hill introduced many of the concepts of modern recreational wargaming, including the use of a hexagonal grid (a.k.a. hexgrid) overlaid on a flat folding board, zones of control (ZOC), stacking of multiple units at a location, and board games based upon historical events. History The Avalon Game Company Avalon Hill was started in 1952 outside Baltimore in Catonsville, Maryland by Charles S. Roberts under the name of "The Avalon Game Company" for the publication of his game ''Tactics''. It is considered the first of a new type of war game, consisting of a self-contained printed map, pieces, rules and box designed for the mass-market. Other war games published over the prior half-century, which Rober ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
