Star Rovers (role-playing game)

Star Rovers is a role-playing game published by Archive Miniatures and Game Systems in 1981.

Description

Star Rovers is a science-fiction space-adventure system.[1] The rules cover combat with guns, melee weapons, and martial arts, in gravity or zero-gravity.[1] The game also includes rules for starships and equipment.[1] Other rules define fatigue, disease, explosives, prospecting and other jobs, interstellar law, starships, and star systems.[1] The game includes a timeline chart, plus deck plans for five starships and a spaceport cantina.[1]

Publication history

Star Rovers was designed by Nevile Stocken, Charles Hoffman, Carole Rode Hoffman, David A. Hargrave, Dennis Huey, and Steve Lortz, and published by Archive Miniatures and Game Systems in 1981 as a boxed set containing a 140-page book, a chart, six maps, two reference sheets, and dice.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 317. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
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