Fantasy Games Unlimited is a role-playing game company mostly active during the late 1970s and 1980s. Some of its games were Bunnies and Burrows, Bushido, Villains and Vigilantes, Space Opera, Aftermath!, Chivalry and Sorcery, and Psi World. A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game where players assume the roles of fictional characters via role-playing. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Bunnies and Burrows (B&B) is a role-playing game (RPG) loosely (and unofficially) based upon the novel Watership Down about a group of talking rabbits seeking to found a new warren. ... Bushido (Japanese: 武士道; bushidō, way of the warrior), was an ethical code of conduct, developed between the 11th to 14th centuries and was formalized during the opening years of the Tokugawa shogunate for the members of the Samurai class. ... Arguably Fantasy Games Unlimiteds most famous role-playing game, Villains and Vigilantes was a popular superhero-themed game written by Jack Herman and Jeff Dee, competing primarily with Champions and Superworld in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... This article is about the game. ... Chivalry and Sorcery is a fantasy role_playing game that was first published in 1977. ...
In such games, characters gain various abilities based on gameplay and typically involving the use of several statistics (such as strength, dexterity, intelligence, charm, etc.), which may in some game systems be advanced.
The term is also used as a name for a genre of video games that for obvious reasons lack the "role-playing" element of pen-and-paper games but borrow many gameplay elements from said games.
These games that relied heavily on obscure rules eventually folded, and D&D itself was simplified somewhat with the release of "second edition" Advanced D&D in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Games that are sold for money instead of being given away must be submitted to the related category Games/Roleplaying/Genres/Fantasy.
Fantasygame released in 1994 by Precedence Games, portraying the battle between mystical immortals and their creator, an evil alien lifeform known as the Sanguinary.
Fantasy roleplaying system published by Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE), and used as the base system for most of their other games lines.
Feeds |
Contact