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Encyclopedia > Fantasy Flight Games

Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) is a Roseville, Minnesota-based game company that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games. As of 2006, it is the fifth largest board game publisher in the world (#1 and #2 are Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers, both wholly owned by Hasbro) Roseville is a city located in Ramsey County, Minnesota, just north of Saint Paul. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game in which players assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create narratives. ... A board game is any game played on a board (that is, a premarked surface) with counters or pieces that are placed on, removed from, or moved across the board. ... // This article is about games played with cards. ... Milton Bradley (1836 - 1911) was a game pioneer, credited by many with launching the game industry in North America. ... The Parker Brothers logo is recognized throughout the world. ... Hasbro (NYSE: HAS) is an American toy and game company. ...


Games published by FFG include:

  • Doom: The Board Game
  • Descent: Journeys in the Dark, a fantasy board game using the rules mechanics developed for the Doom board game. Descent shares the setting of the Runebound board game (see below).
  • Dragonstar
  • Call of Cthulhu collectible card game and Arkham Horror, a CoC board game
  • Citadels: A city-building card game in which all players choose unique characters with associated powers.
  • Fury of Dracula
  • A Game of Thrones collectible card game and board game
  • Runebound
  • War of the Ring
  • World of Warcraft: The Board Game
  • Twilight Imperium Board game
  • Fireborn, set in a London where magic is re-emerging, and the players are scions, dragons from the mythic age reborn as humans who must remember their past lives through roleplayed flashbacks, gaining the power and knowledge they need to prevent the same cataclysm that ended the mythic age from happening again.
  • Midnight, a D20 System Campaign Setting based on a world where the Dark Lord actually won.
  • Horizons, a set of open-ended miniature Campaign Settings for the D20 System, so far numbering 5 settings. These are:
    • Mechamorphosis, sentient giant transforming robots, based on the popular Transformers.
    • Grimm RPG, adventuring as children in world a based on twisted versions of Grimm's Fairy Tales. Is to be re-released as a full RPG.
    • Redline, vehicle-based adventuring in a post-apocalyptic world.
    • Virtual, adventuring inside a computer system, styled after the Disney movie TRON.
    • Spellslinger, a conglomeration of "traditional" fantasy and Wild West roleplay.

Dragonstar is a futuristic magic-meets-machine game world created by Fantasy Flight Games for Wizards of the Coasts D20 roleplaying system. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Collectible card games (CCGs), also called customizable card games or trading card games, are played using specially designed sets of cards. ... Arkham Horror is a board game designed by Richard Launius, most recently published in 2005 by Fantasy Flight Games. ... This article is about a type of fortification. ... A Game of Thrones Collectible Card Game (sometimes referred to as AGoT) is a collectible card game produced by Fantasy Flight Games, the game is based on the A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series by George R. R. Martin. ... Collectible card games (CCGs), also called customizable card games or trading card games, are played using specially designed sets of cards. ... A Game of Thrones is a strategy board game created by Christian T. Petersen and released by Fantasy Flight Games in 2003. ... Combatants Free peoples of Middle-earth: Gondor, Rohan, Dale, Esgaroth, Erebor, The Shire, Lothlórien, the Woodland Realm Evil forces: Under Sauron: Mordor, Rhûn, Harad, Umbar, Khand Under Saruman: (actually a third party) Isengard, Dunland Commanders Gandalf† (but resurrected) Aragorn Théoden† Denethor† Dain II† Brand† Galadriel and Celeborn... Twilight Imperium is a strategy board game produced by Fantasy Flight Games. ... d20 redirects here. ... Dark Lord (also known as an Evil Overlord) is a name often used in fiction to talk about a powerful villain with evil henchmen, especially when pronouncing the real name is thought to bring bad luck. ... d20 redirects here. ... Mechamorphosis is a Transformers-like role-playing game based on the D20 system created by Lysle Kapp and Rob Vaughn of Fantasy Flight Games (FFG). ... This page is about the original Transformers animated series. ... The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ... Tron has several meanings: a movie, see Tron (film) an arcade game based on the movie, see Tron (arcade game) a German hacker whose nickname was Tron, see Tron (hacker) a real-time operating system kernel, see TRON Project. ...

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