InQuest 17 - 46 - Gamer's Guide '96
Destination Games
RPGs: Gen Con is the launch site for Pulp
Dungeon, a line of four 16-page digest-sized
adventures ($3.95 each) suitable for use
with any fantasy RPG on the market.
Other Games: With Chaos Progenitus, a
trading dice game designed by Lester Smith
(Dragon Dice), you use 13 dice to build a
monster to battle your opponent's mon-
ster. Collect all 30 dice in 13-dice packs
($9.95 each) and beat the crap out of other
critters. Plague Beasts, the first expansion
for Chaos Progenitus, comes in eight-dice
kicker packs for $6.95 each. This 30-dice
set comes in different colors than the orig-
inal set, adding new powers for your beasts.
FASA
RPGs: Look for the BattleTech Fourth Edi-
tion this August. The latest version of this
classic game of giant robot combat fea-
tures 48 stand-up counters. The rules are
basically the same, but the presentation's
been honed to a fine edge.
RPGs: Gen Con is the launch site for Pulp
Dungeon, a line of four 16-page digest-sized
adventures ($3.95 each) suitable for use
with any fantasy RPG on the market.
Other Games: With Chaos Progenitus, a
trading dice game designed by Lester Smith
(Dragon Dice), you use 13 dice to build a
monster to battle your opponent's mon-
ster. Collect all 30 dice in 13-dice packs
($9.95 each) and beat the crap out of other
critters. Plague Beasts, the first expansion
for Chaos Progenitus, comes in eight-dice
kicker packs for $6.95 each. This 30-dice
set comes in different colors than the orig-
inal set, adding new powers for your beasts.
FASA
RPGs: Look for the BattleTech Fourth Edi-
tion this August. The latest version of this
classic game of giant robot combat fea-
tures 48 stand-up counters. The rules are
basically the same, but the presentation's
been honed to a fine edge.
Get all the dirt on the 2057 elections
in the new Shadowrun supplement, Port-
folio of a Dragon: Dunkelzahn's Secrets
($20), concentrating on the front-runner,
a crafty dragon.
Throal: The Dwarf Kingdom ($20) reveals
to Earthdawn adventurers the nasty secrets
of an outwardly peaceful nest of politics,
intrigue and murder.
Fleer/SkyBox/Mag Force 7
CCGs: SkyBox will be premiering Star Trek:
The Card Game at Gen Con. Based on the
original TV show, this game features photos
of all the classic "Star Trek" characters you've
come to know and love. The game is
designed by Mag Force 7, the company that
brought you the Star of the Guardians and
the Wing Commander CCGs. (See "Beam Me
Up, SkyBox!," InQuest #13, for more details.)
The game won't actually be available
for sale at Gen Con, but when the set of
over 300 cards hits the shelves the follow-
ing week, it will sell in 65-card starters ($8.95
each) and 15-card boosters ($2.75 each).
FPG
in the new Shadowrun supplement, Port-
folio of a Dragon: Dunkelzahn's Secrets
($20), concentrating on the front-runner,
a crafty dragon.
Throal: The Dwarf Kingdom ($20) reveals
to Earthdawn adventurers the nasty secrets
of an outwardly peaceful nest of politics,
intrigue and murder.
Fleer/SkyBox/Mag Force 7
CCGs: SkyBox will be premiering Star Trek:
The Card Game at Gen Con. Based on the
original TV show, this game features photos
of all the classic "Star Trek" characters you've
come to know and love. The game is
designed by Mag Force 7, the company that
brought you the Star of the Guardians and
the Wing Commander CCGs. (See "Beam Me
Up, SkyBox!," InQuest #13, for more details.)
The game won't actually be available
for sale at Gen Con, but when the set of
over 300 cards hits the shelves the follow-
ing week, it will sell in 65-card starters ($8.95
each) and 15-card boosters ($2.75 each).
FPG
CCGs: FPG will be pushing Dark Age: Feu-
dal Lords throughout the summer. This
CCG was co-designed by Brom (Dark Sun,
Deadlands), who's done the lion's share of
the art chores himself, but artists as illus-
trious as Tim Bradstreet and Dave Dor-
man are also chipping in.
The setting is a ghastly dark future in
which players vie for control of the castles
built on the ruins of our civilization. Feudal
Lords is the first in a series of Dark Age
CCGs. It comes in 65-card starter decks
($12.95) complete with rule book, Dark
Age deck sticker and four dice made espe-
cially for the game. Ten-card booster packs
will also be available for $2.45.
Brom and company are also busy
contributing to the next supplement for
Guardians. Necropolis Park puts the play-
ers in a wacked-out theme park featur-
ing dinosaurs and undead.
Games Workshop
dal Lords throughout the summer. This
CCG was co-designed by Brom (Dark Sun,
Deadlands), who's done the lion's share of
the art chores himself, but artists as illus-
trious as Tim Bradstreet and Dave Dor-
man are also chipping in.
The setting is a ghastly dark future in
which players vie for control of the castles
built on the ruins of our civilization. Feudal
Lords is the first in a series of Dark Age
CCGs. It comes in 65-card starter decks
($12.95) complete with rule book, Dark
Age deck sticker and four dice made espe-
cially for the game. Ten-card booster packs
will also be available for $2.45.
Brom and company are also busy
contributing to the next supplement for
Guardians. Necropolis Park puts the play-
ers in a wacked-out theme park featur-
ing dinosaurs and undead.
Games Workshop
Other Games: Chaos Codex, a
supplement for the ever-popular
Warhammer 40,000 minia-
tures game, weighs in at
144 pages, including 32
full-color plates. It tells
you all you need to
know to build your own
Chaos Lord army.
Heartbreaker
RPGs: Mutant Chronicles' sec-
ond edition features cleaned-up
mechanics and a whole new
look for the technofantasy RPG
that inspired the Doomtrooper CCG
and Warzone miniatures game.
The 80-page, $14.95 Kult Players Com-
panion provides more background for the
horror RPG.
Holistic Design
RPGs: In the far-future epic Fading Suns you
play a member of a noble house, merchant
guild, religious sect or even alien race.
Imperium Games
RPGs: Traveller's latest revision has Marc
Miller, the original designer, back at the
supplement for the ever-popular
Warhammer 40,000 minia-
tures game, weighs in at
144 pages, including 32
full-color plates. It tells
you all you need to
know to build your own
Chaos Lord army.
Heartbreaker
RPGs: Mutant Chronicles' sec-
ond edition features cleaned-up
mechanics and a whole new
look for the technofantasy RPG
that inspired the Doomtrooper CCG
and Warzone miniatures game.
The 80-page, $14.95 Kult Players Com-
panion provides more background for the
horror RPG.
Holistic Design
RPGs: In the far-future epic Fading Suns you
play a member of a noble house, merchant
guild, religious sect or even alien race.
Imperium Games
RPGs: Traveller's latest revision has Marc
Miller, the original designer, back at the
helm, returning this legendary game to the
roots that made it so popular in the first
place. Art by Larry Elmore and Chris Foss
adorns the $25 book's 192 pages.
lron Crown Enterprises
CCGs: Middle-earth: The Wizards Players
Guide picks up where the Middle-earth: The
Wizards Companion left off, featuring deck-
building and game-play strategies for the
CCG based on J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of
the Rings." This 8.5-by-11-inch black and
white book ($14) has more than 200 pages.
Each of the 484 cards in the game's origi-
nal set will be depicted along with details on
how the card fits into the Middle-earth
mythos and clever ways to use it in play.
Other Games: The Dicemaster collectible
dice game may also debut at Gen Con, but
ICE is making no promises. "In any case,
we'll be running plenty of demos and giv-
ing away promotional dice," reports Sales
Manager Deane Begiebing.
Dicemaster will be released in two sets.
Cities of Doom is the basic game; each
box features 32 dice, only a few of which
differ from box to box, and a rule book-
