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Gamma World 2Nd Edition Gamma world 2nd edition Continue Gamma World - Science Fantasy Role Playing Game - TSRGamma World: 4th and Later Editions gamma World Fiction : Metamorphosis Alpha No. 1 (Classic) 2nd (Classic Revised) 3rd (ACT BROWSE) MY MY WORLD WORLD ITEMS CURRENT IN STOCK Can you survive in a world gone mad? A world where civilization, as we know it, was destroyed by the catastrophic Holocaust? What's left in this world? Learn and encounter such strange things as mutated plants and animals are scarier than you can imagine, radiation wastelands that stretch as far as the eye can see, and fearless machines have gone uncontrollably crazy... GAMMA WORLD includes all the basics needed to create your own world: a game booklet (packed with scary mutants, as well as recommendations for creating additional own), a large campaign card (designed for easy modified by individual game masters) and a full set of multi-grain bones. The only thing you need is a good imagination and a spirit of adventure! GAMMA WORLD is also suitable for use with DUNGEONS s DRAGONS and METAMORPHOSIS: ALPHA TO OMEGA. - From the back of the gamma-world 1st edition boxes set an iconic post-apocalyptic map of the former United States, the 2471 AD 3rd print card laid on the 2nd printed map. Aside from a piece of code (106-M-3002) at the border, the only obvious difference between the maps is the 3rd print of the bold blue ocean. Mountains, cities and rivers are also more pronounced. (The first print card looks like a compromise in the boldness between the two later, and has only the copyright date of 1978. Collectors are always shooting for the lizardman logo set, but I think the third one has the best card. , Metamorphosis Alpha is the direct ancestor of gamma of the world. Radiation, robots, wild mutations, strange life forms, it all started here, on starship Warden.Fiction with a similar background as THE MA include: Orphaned Sky Children (Robert Heinlein) Non-Stop (Brian Aldis) The Captive Universe (Harry Harrison) Nearly twenty years after the original Metamorphosis Alpha TSR published an updated version - Metamorphoses Alpha Omega - very similar in feel in Gamma World, 4th edition of the World How about an almost invincible jaguar, complete with the ability to change its body density and radiate a sonic scream, but who is afraid of birds? This is just a small sample of mutations that can inhabit many metamorphOSIS ALPHA worlds. A huge spaceship, a virtual world in itself, carrying colonists, as well as the flora and fauna of Terra is struck by a cloud cloud forms of radiation on the way to a distant star. Chaos reigns when radiation kills most of the crew, and the ensuing frenzy is the knowledge of what the ship is and where its destination lies is lost to survivors - and there are many survivors. Intelligent mutated animals and plants now inhabit the ship, and they compete or possibly collaborate with the people on board. In METAMORPHOSIS ALPHA, you are aboard an injured spaceship and struggling to survive, trying to gain knowledge about strange devices and the ship's mechanical apparatus, trying to learn the secrets of the strange world in which you live. As a player, you can be a human or a mutant - a person or otherwise. Your course is up to your skill and imagination. METAMORPHOSIS ALPHA is a role-playing game in the great tradition of DUNGEONS and DRAGONS. If you like the worlds of medieval swords and witchcraft, you will love what you find in the fantastic and fascinating worlds of science fiction! 1976 ... 32 pages ... TSR SF18-R/3001 (later print)Check out Wayne's InventoryBuy Books on AmazonBuy PDF at DriveThruRPG Gamma World 1st Edition BOX SETPeople of the World - you seem to be striving for the destruction of a civilization that took centuries to build, and the extinction of life on earth. If it's yours will ... so be it! We, the Apocalypse, demand an immediate cessation of this insane violence, or we will put an end to it for you ... with a force you can't imagine. We have power! The choice behind it! began the game TSR Gamma World in 1978: a rich scientific fantasy after the Holocaust. Search for relics in the long-abandoned cities of the Ancient... Meeting with bizarre mutated animals... Thinning foliage that resists ... The full box set will include a rule book and a large campaign map of shattered North America.I've seen 3 different versions of the 1st edition box set: 1st print (1978) - TSR lizardman logo No. 2nd print (August 1978) - TSR master logo 3rd print (1980, 1981) - TSR face logo. Science Fantasy Role Game inscriptions called. The black-and-white cover of the rule booklet reflects these differences. GW1e photo shoot in my gallery game photoblog: GAMMA WORLD 1st ed (1978-82): Original post-Apoc RPG-Wayne1978, 1981... James M. Ward and Gary Jack ... TSR 3002 ... ISBN 0394518799 Check out Wayne Books InventoryBut BOX SET on Amazon Buy RULEBOOK (only) on AmazonBuy PDF and/or paperback reprint on DriveThruRPG Referee screen and the mini module includes 8 pages of Albuquerque Starport mini-module. -W1981 ... Paul Reich III ... TSR 6501 ... ISBN 0935696784Check Wayne's Books InventoryBuy on Amazon Legion of Gold (Module GW1) While James Ward designed Gamma World, Gary Gigax put his unmistakable imprint on the game in writing his first module. The art of Erol Otusa on the front page is unmistakable. Legion of Gold introduces Gamma Referee from the first official area of the campaign (Baroni Horn) near Lake Michigan. Players are waiting for a baguette nest and an underwater ancient complex. New creatures, new robots and new weapons. -Wayne There is a lot to worry about in the mutated world of the future, but the baron of Gemmas, Warder Horne, has more on his mind than most. In recent weeks, several of his nearby towns of Baroni have been destroyed by a group of mysterious gold looters. These creatures struck out of nowhere and disappeared without a trace when their deeds were done. Warder decided that they must be stopped before the entire Baron Horn falls under their onslaught, and so he offers a great reward to anyone who can defeat the Legion of Gold. 1981 ... Gary Gigax and Luke Gigax and Paul Reich III ... 32 pages and 3-panel cover ... TSR 7503 ... ISBN 093569661XCheck Wayne Books InventoryBuyBuy PDF on DriveThruRPG Hunger in Far Go (GW2 Module) Far Go dies... People are afraid... Animals are wasting ... crops are witheding in the fields. No one, not even Arks Skystone, the high priest, knows what caused Far-Go's misfortune. You are part of a group of young adventurers who are about to begin the sacred rite of adulthood. The last hope of survival for Far-Go lies with your party. On your way to the Forest of Knowledge, you must look for clues to the origin of the mysterious plague. This quest can put you in great danger... and great knowledge. Traveling through the wild desert, all you have is you, comrades, your mind, your strength... And your dreams!! This module contains referee notes, background information, maps, new creatures, mutations, robotic units and new rules for a pure strain of humans to use with Gamma World Science Fantasy Game... 1982 ... Michael Price ... 32 pages ... TSR 7502 ... ISBN 0935696881Check Wayne Books InventoryBuy Buy on AmazonBuy PDF at DriveThruRPG Gamma World 2nd edition of BOX SET In 1983 TSR published a second edition of the Rules. He filled out the finely written 1st edition, with an extended mutation, equipment and descriptions of the NPC, rewrote and reorganized the ground rules and a full set of previously unpublished campaign rules. Also filled with Larry Elmore art; Almost all animal/monster/NPC encounters has a sketch. One of my favorite editions of Gamma World, keeping the spirit of the 1st edition, but much more in the game. See also Gamma World 2nd (No 3!), co-author David James Ritchie: Omega War: Science Fantasy Adventure Game (1983)-WayneINCLUDES: - 64-page booklet Basic Rules. TSR 7010 ... ISBN 0394531582 Check out Wayne Books InventoryBust BOX SET on Amazon Buy RULEBOOK (only) on Amazon referee screen and mini module 8-page mini-module Albuquerque Starport Paul Reich III. -W1983 ... TSR 6502 ... ISBN 088038306Check Wayne Books InventoryBuy Buy on AmazonBuy PDF at DriveThruRPG Player Character Sheets (GWAC2) Package podogs came out of the surrounding mountains. You are trapped and defenseless. You thought you had three shots at the rifle and another 10 minutes on the electric whip. Thermonuclear bomb? You used it yesterday. so the character sheet wasn't such a bad idea after all? GAMMA WORLD character sheets will be readily available during the game. Designated spaces organize character statistics, mutations, property, followers, creatures that collide, and more. This package contains 32 sheets of characters and tips on how to use them. Now that you can track this important information, you are ready to travel to the distant future. Now you're ready to play GAMMA WORLD. In fact, there are 16 (2-sided) character sheets.-Wayne1984 ... TSR 7507 ... ISBN 0880381396Check Wayne Books InventoryBus on Amazon Cleansing War Garic Blackhand (GW3 Module) Scary Scarlet Knights of Genetic Purity have declared a campaign of terror against all mutants - humanoids and mutated animals!! Your evil enemies, the Grey Rock tribe, have accused your tribe, the White Feathers, of murder and betrayal. Your tribe has now been sentenced to death - you and your party have been declared criminals and traitors. The fate of your tribe is in your hands.
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