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Spacefarers Guide To Alien Races
''Spacefarers Guide to Alien Races'' is a 1979 role-playing game supplement published by Phoenix Games. Contents ''Spacefarers Guide to Alien Races'' details 100 different alien races that can be used for creating characters in science fiction role-playing games. Reception William A. Barton reviewed ''Spacefarers Guide to Alien Races'' in ''The Space Gamer'' No. 33. Barton commented that "If a myriad of alien races from which to choose a character for your next SF role-playing session is your cup of zgwortz, ''Spacefarers Guide to Alien Races'' should easily suit you as well as a tentacle does your typical BEM." References {{reflist Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1979 Science fiction role-playing game supplements ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spacefarers Guide To Alien Races
''Spacefarers Guide to Alien Races'' is a 1979 role-playing game supplement published by Phoenix Games. Contents ''Spacefarers Guide to Alien Races'' details 100 different alien races that can be used for creating characters in science fiction role-playing games. Reception William A. Barton reviewed ''Spacefarers Guide to Alien Races'' in ''The Space Gamer'' No. 33. Barton commented that "If a myriad of alien races from which to choose a character for your next SF role-playing session is your cup of zgwortz, ''Spacefarers Guide to Alien Races'' should easily suit you as well as a tentacle does your typical BEM." References {{reflist Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1979 Science fiction role-playing game supplements ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoenix Games
Phoenix Games was an American game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements. History Phoenix Games was a partnership between Dan Bress and Phil Edgren, and was a successor to the company Little Soldier Games, to which Bress and Edgren had both contributed before it was shut down. Ed Konstant of Little Soldier Games wrote a few products for Phoenix Games, including ''The Book of Fantasy Miniatures'' (1978) and the open-ended deduction game ''Elementary Watson'' (1978), whose printing was paid for by Gamescience in return for rights to the Little Soldier back catalog. Some transitional books between the companies, such as ''The Book of Shamans'' (1978) were published under the Little Soldier Games label, which was itself listed as a division of Phoenix Games. Phoenix Games continued on with Little Soldier's general fantasy role-playing game publications, but they also did broader work in the RPG field than Little Soldier had, supplementing their generic fanta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Space Gamer
''The Space Gamer'' was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fiction and fantasy board games and tabletop role-playing games. It quickly grew in importance and was an important and influential magazine in its subject matter from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s. The magazine is no longer published, but the rights holders maintain a web presence using its final title ''Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer''. History ''The Space Gamer'' (''TSG'') started out as a digest quarterly publication of the brand new Metagaming Concepts Metagaming Concepts, later known simply as Metagaming, was a company that published board games from 1974 to 1983. It was founded and owned by Howard Thompson, who designed the company's first game, '' Stellar Conquest''. The company also inven ... company in March 1975. Howard M. Thompson, the owner of Metagaming and the first editor of the magazine, stated "The magazine had been planned for after our third or fourth game but circumstances demand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and (until 2019) the gaming magazine ''Pyramid''. History Founded in 1980, six years after the creation of ''Dungeons & Dragons'', SJ Games created several role-playing and strategy games with science fiction themes. SJ Games' early titles were microgames initially sold in 4×7 inch ziploc bags, and later in the similarly sized Pocket Box. Games such as ''Ogre'', ''Car Wars'', and ''G.E.V'' (an ''Ogre'' spin-off) were popular during SJ Games' early years. Game designers such as Loren Wiseman and Jonathan Leistiko have worked for Steve Jackson Games. Today SJ Games publishes a variety of games, such as card games, board games, strategy games, and in different genres, such as fantasy, sci-fi, and gothic horror. They also published the book ''Principia Discordia'', the sacred text of the Discordian religion. Raid by the Secret S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Role-playing Game Supplements Introduced In 1979
Role-playing or roleplaying is the changing of one's behaviour to assume a role, either unconsciously to fill a social role, or consciously to act out an adopted role. While the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' offers a definition of role-playing as "the changing of one's behaviour to fulfill a social role", in the field of psychology, the term is used more loosely in four senses: * To refer to the playing of roles generally such as in a theatre, or educational setting; * To refer to taking a role of a character or person and acting it out with a partner taking someone else's role, often involving different genres of practice; * To refer to a wide range of games including role-playing video game (RPG), play-by-mail games and more; * To refer specifically to role-playing games. Amusement Many children participate in a form of role-playing known as make believe, wherein they adopt certain roles such as doctor and act out those roles in character. Sometimes make believe adopts an oppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
