''Freedom Fighters'' is a

role-playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...

published by

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 b ...

in 1986.

Description

''Freedom Fighters'' is a modern military system in which players are guerrillas battling the Soviet or space-alien conquerors of the United States. The game includes a

GM's screen A gamemaster's screen, also called a GM's screen, is a gaming accessory, usually made out of either cardboard or card stock, and is used by the gamemaster to hide all the relevant data related to a tabletop role-playing game session from the playe ...

Publication history

''Freedom Fighters'' was designed by

J. Andrew Keith John Andrew Keith (August 31, 1958 – August 7, 1999) was an American author and games developer. Career J. Andrew Keith, and his brother William H. Keith Jr., responded to ads in ''Journal of the Travellers Aid Society'' for authors to wri ...

, with art by

William H. Keith, Jr. William H. Keith (born August 8, 1950) is an American author mainly contributing to military science fiction and military fiction and related game design, who writes also under several pen names, such as Ian Douglas, Robert Cain and H. Jay R ...

, and was published in 1986 by Fantasy Games Unlimited as a

boxed set A box set or (its original name) boxed set is a set of items (for example, a compilation of books, musical recordings, films or television programs) traditionally packaged in a box and offered for sale as a single unit. Music Artists and bands ...

with a 96-page book, an 80-page book, a 32-page book, a cardstock screen, a sample character record sheet, and dice. ''Freedom Fighters'' was one of the last role-playing games published by FGU.

References

{{reflist Fantasy Games Unlimited games Military role-playing games Role-playing games introduced in 1986 Science fiction role-playing games