The ''High Adventure Cliffhangers Buck Rogers Adventure Game'' was a role-playing game published by
TSR in 1993.
Publication
Following lackluster response to the ''Buck Rogers Battle for the XXVth Century'' board game (1988), TSR decided to try again with a more conventional table-top RPG, this time based on the original 1928 Philip Francis Nowlan novel ''Armageddon, 2419 A.D.'' (Ace, Aug 1978, ) and subsequent 1929 comic strip continuity, in which resurgent tribal Americans overthrow their Red Mongol conquerors. The basic game was called the ''High Adventure Cliffhangers Buck Rogers Adventure Game'' (Sep 1993, ) and was co-designed by
Jeff Grubb and
Steven Schend
Steven E. Schend is a game designer and editor who has worked on a number of products for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game from TSR throughout the 1990s.
Biography
Steven Schend was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1967. Schen ...
. The ''High Adventure Cliffhangers Buck Rogers War Against The Han Campaign Supplement'' (Dec 1993, ) was designed by Steven Schend alone.
This new
Buck Rogers role-playing game was a return to the themes of the original Buck Rogers comic strips. This game included biplanes and interracial warfare, as opposed to the space combat of the earlier ''
Buck Rogers XXVC'' game. There were only a few expansion modules created for High-Adventure Cliffhangers. Shortly afterward, the game was discontinued, and the production of Buck Rogers RPGs and games came to an end. This game was neither widely advertised nor very popular. There were only two published products: the box set, and "War Against the Han".
Reception
Reviews
*''Dosdediez'' (NĂºmero 5 - Jul/Ago 1994)
References
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Role-playing games based on comics
Role-playing games introduced in 1993
Space opera role-playing games
TSR, Inc. games