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Skull And Crossbones (role-playing Game)
''Skull & Crossbones'' is a role-playing game published by Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU) in 1980 in which players take on the roles of pirates. Description ''Skull & Crossbones'' is a pirate role-playing system set in the Caribbean during the late 17th century. The rulebook covers character creation, man-to-man and ship-to-ship combat, encounter tables, non-player characters, and more. The game includes ship-deck plans in 25mm miniatures scale and a campaign map of the Spanish Main. Characters can be navigators, gunners and "other seafaring types." Publication history ''Skull & Crossbones'' was designed by Gerald D. Seypura and Anthony LeBoutillier and published by FGU in 1980 as a boxed set with two 32-page books, two maps, three cardstock sheets, counters, and special skull dice. The supplement '' Pieces of Eight'' was also published in 1980. Reception In Issue 35 of '' The Space Gamer'', Aaron Allston commented that "''Skull & Crossbones'' might be useful as an introduc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skull & Crossbones, Role-playing Game
The skull is a bone protective cavity for the brain. The skull is composed of four types of bone i.e., cranial bones, facial bones, ear ossicles and hyoid bone. However two parts are more prominent: the cranium and the mandible. In humans, these two parts are the neurocranium and the viscerocranium (facial skeleton) that includes the mandible as its largest bone. The skull forms the anterior-most portion of the skeleton and is a product of cephalisation—housing the brain, and several sensory structures such as the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. In humans these sensory structures are part of the facial skeleton. Functions of the skull include protection of the brain, fixing the distance between the eyes to allow stereoscopic vision, and fixing the position of the ears to enable sound localisation of the direction and distance of sounds. In some animals, such as horned ungulates (mammals with hooves), the skull also has a defensive function by providing the mount (on the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
