From: [s--r--e] at [pentagon.io.com] (Jonathan Sari) Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.misc Subject: The Return of The Complete Usenet RPG List (Part 02/02) Date: 12 Aug 1994 04:47:14 -0500 Supplement Lines for Any Game ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Adventurers' Cauldron ($) Playing Board Products Adventurers' Guild ($) Adventurers' Guild All the World Monsters ($) Chaosium Apothecary on the Street of Dreams ($) Pandora's Treasures Authentic Thaumaturgy ($) Chaosium The Black Vial ($) Infinity Unlimited Book of Artifacts ($) Dragon Tree Press The Book of Mars ($) Image Game Co. Booty and the Beasts ($) Fantasy Art Enterprises Central Casting Task Force Games Citybooks (Catalyst System) Flying Buffalo, Inc. City-State of the Invincible Overlord Mayfair The Compleat Fantasy Series Bard Games/Wizards of the Coast The Compleat Tavern ($) Gamelords Creature Creation ($) Fugitive Games Death on the High Seas Ragnarok Dungeon Traps ($) Reilly Associates E'A ($) David M. Fitzgerald The Enchanted Books ($) Role-Players Fantasy Gamer's Compendium ($) Gamescience Grimtooth's Traps (Catalyst System) Flying Buffalo, Inc. Guns! Guns! Guns! BTRC The Handbook of Traps & Tricks ($) Dragon Tree Press Harnworld Columbia Games Heaven and Hell ($) Gamemaster Guides Islandia Campaign ($) The Companions Judges Guild ($) Judges Guild The Kingdoms of Kalamar (*) Kenzer and Company Lejentia Task Force Games/Flying Buffalo, Inc. Lionheart ($) Columbia Games Lore of the Crypt Underworld Publishing Manual of Aurania ($) International Gamers Association Midkemia ($) Midkemia Press The Necronomicon ($) Fantasy Art Enterprises Nexus:the Infinite City Daedalus Games Order of St. Talis ($) Zeppelin Publications Palladium Weapon Series Palladium Games Pantheon Ragnarok The Potions of the Anathar ($) Phil Martin The Primal Order Wizards of the Coast The Quest Icarus Games/Excalibre Games RoleAids Mayfair Roshia's Gauntlet ($) Far Reaches Sage Lore Sage Lore Productions Shadow World Iron Crown Enterprises Siege and Fortress Ragnarok Skinwalkers and Shapeshifters ($) Morningstar Publishing Societies Sourcebook ($) Marquee Press Story Paths ($) Lion Rampant The Tavern ($) Genesis Gaming Products The Times Ten Adventure Guide Cliffhangers Unlimited Trap Manual ($) Varanae/Role-Players Thieves' World Campaign Setting ($) Chaosium World of Silverdawn ($) Entertainment Concepts Whimsy Cards ($) Lion Rampant The Wyrmship Technical Manual Storm Press Live-Action Role-Playing Games ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IFGS Dream Park Corp. Killer Steve Jackson Games Swordtag Adventurers' Guild RPG-Style Miniatures Games ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BattleLust Columbia Games Bladestorm Iron Crown Enterprises Chainmail Gary Gygax Critter Commandos Crunchy Frog Enterprises Fuzzy Heroes Inner City Games Designs Star Corps Crunchy Frog Enterprises Universal Soldier RAFM Games that are not really RPG's, but claim to be ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dallas, the Role-Playing Game ($) Simulations Publications, Inc. Realms of the Unknown ($) The Walnut Group RPG-related Board Games ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arkham Horror Chaosium Armored Assault Iron Crown Enterprises Assault on Hoth West End Games Battle For Endor West End Games Battlesystem TSR BattleTech FASA Buck Rogers, Battle for the 25th Cent. TSR Car Wars Steve Jackson Games Citadel of Blood ($) Simulations Publications, Inc. Deathmaze ($) Simulations Publications, Inc. Delta Vee ($) Simulations Publications, Inc. DMZ FASA Dracula Leading Edge Games Dragon Pass Avalon Hill DragonQuest TSR DragonStrike (*) TSR ElfQuest Mayfair Elric! Chaosium Escape from the Death Star West End Games Fellowship of the Ring ($) Iron Crown Enterprises Gammarauders TSR Go Robo (#) Better Games Kar Kombat (#) Better Games Knight Hawks ($) TSR Knights of Camelot ($) Chaosium Lost Worlds Nova Games Last Battle Game Designers' Workshop Magic Realm Avalon Hill Mecha! Seventh Street Games NeoBunnies (-) NeoGames AB Nomad Gods ($) Chaosium Oversized Heavy Mechanized Units TBA Games Plateau Magnolia Game Company Renegade Legion FASA Silent Death Iron Crown Enterprises Sky Galleons of Mars ($) Game Designers' Workshop Space Hulk Games Workshop Star Cruiser Game Designers' Workshop Starfire Task Force Games Star Fleet Battles Task Force Games Star Strike Iron Crown Enterprises Star Trek Tactical Combat Simulator FASA Star Viking Game Designers' Workshop Star Warrior West End Games Striker ($) Game Designers' Workshop Swords & Sorcery ($) Simulations Publications, Inc. Talisman Games Workshop Temple of the Beastmen Game Designers' Workshop Ultramodern Firearms Chameleon Eclectic Wabbit's Wampage 54 40' Orphyte Warhammer Fantasy Battles Games Workshop Warhammer 40K Games Workshop War Law Iron Crown Enterprises War of the Ring ($) Simulations Publications, Inc. War of Wizards ($) TSR White Bear, Red Moon ($,now Dragon Pass)Chaosium # Contained in Spacegamer/Fantasygamer #7 ======================================================================== Game Category Definitions ======================================================================== Universal Role-Playing Games are games that provide a system, without tying it to any specific genre or background, generally providing a number of alternate genres to choose from. Traditional Fantasy Role-Playing Games are sword and sorcery style fantasy games, typically including lots of magical effects and creatures. Historical Fantasy Role-Playing Games are games that have a medieval setting. They may or may not have magic, but the background is based largely on the European middle ages. Literary Fantasy Role-Playing Games are fantasy games that are based pon some prior work. That work may be novels, movies, TV, or any similar work, but these games all share the distinction of being based upon some previous work. Pure Fantasy Role-Playing Games are games with a completely made-up setting--ones so fanciful that they run counter to established potentially "real" worlds--while still designed as "serious" role-playing games. Science Fantasy Role-Playing Games are games which have elements of science fiction, without losing the "feel" of a fantasy game. The emphasis is generally on a fantastic setting, without overly much thought to scientific consistency. Space Opera Role-Playing Games are games in which mankind (or some other race) has colonized the stars and may travel among the various worlds, often meeting various interstellar races, as they desire. Science Fiction Combat Role-Playing Games are science fiction games where the primary focus seems to be combat. Time Travel Role-Playing Games are those games where the focus of play is on travelling to different eras in history (past and future). Other Science Fiction Role-Playing Games covers any form of science fiction not mentioned in other categories, including "Hard" Science Fiction (science fiction based on present scientific knowledge), futuristic settings of more limited scope than Space Opera and various near-future games. Cyberpunk Role-Playing Games are those games which are set in the grim, gritty near-future environment known as cyberpunk. Mecha Role-Playing Games are those games where the focus is on human-controlled humanoid robots. Conspiracy Role-Playing Games are games which make the assumption that a (typically modern) setting is actually secretly under the control of unidentified groups with hidden motives and agendas. Action-Adventure Role-Playing Games are games which focus on the "pulp" action adventure of novels and movies. Monster Role-Playing Games are those games designed for the players to play creatures generally classified as "monsters" (vampires, werewolves, etc.) Superhero Role-Playing Games are games concerning super-powered beings existing in the same setting with ordinary, every-day people. Historical Role-Playing Games are games where the players take on characters from a specific era in history. Among others, this includes Old West RPGs, Buccaneer RPGs, Victorian RPGs, and Medieval Oriental RPGs. Cross-Genre Role-Playing Games are those games whose environment includes several distinct genres within a single setting. Military/Post Holocaust Role-Playing Games are those games which focus on a modern or near future military setting, potentially following a world-shattering holocaust. Espionage Role-Playing Games are those games in which the players run modern secret agent style characters on spy missions. Horror Role-Playing Games are those games in which the players play characters thrust into horrific situations, generally to do battle with the horrific causes of those situations. Humor Role-Playing Games are those games whose main focus is to be fun and humorous, reality generally taking a back seat to farce or general silliness. Role-Playing Games that defy categorization include those games which cannot easily be fit into any of the previous loose genres. Supplement Lines for Any Game are individual products or lines of products designed to work with one or more genres of role-playing game, without being tied to a particular system (although some are written to work with one or more systems in particular.) Live-Action Role-Playing Games are those games in which the role-playing situations are acted out, rather than merely described. Listed are sets of rules for moderating such games. RPG-Style Miniatures Games are those miniature (or combat) rules that work on the level of individual characters, providing statistics for each character individually, what I would consider Role-Playing Games without the role-playing. I am specifically not including unit-based historical games in this category, to save work. Games that are not really Role-Playing Games, but claim to be are those games which bill themselves as role-playing games which do not fit the criteria of role-playing games. RPG-related Board Games are those board games that either share a setting with an existing role-playing game, have traits in common with role-playing games, or were mistaken for role-playing games either by me or by someone who sent me mail. ======================================================================== Tremendous Thanks To ======================================================================== Note: Thanks to Ken Arromdee, Sean Barrett, Joachim Bartsch, Joerg Baumgartner, Mike Boucher, J. Craig Brunson, James W. Bucher, Roger Burton-West, Camille le Monies de Sagazan, Terry Chlebek, Jonathan Dean, Andrew C. Durston, Phil Dutre, K. Elescor, Patrick Ellis, John Enzinas, J.D. Frazer, Patric Hag, Greg Hines, Lutz Hofmann, Jeffrey Johnson, John Karakash, Robert King, Taki Kogoma, Scott Koterbay, Jean-Marc Libs, Michael W. Lucas, Mark Manning, Charles Martin, Sean G. McLachlan, Dale Meier, Frederic Moll, Mike Monthey, John Morrow, John Nephew, Steven Redant, Michael Rueve, Steffan O'Sullivan, Dan Peters, Marc Philips, Liam Routt, Brian F. Schreurs, Pete Shanahan, Barry O Shea, Thomas Stepien, Jerry Stratton, Aaron Thies, Anders Torlind, Richard Tucholka, Dave Van Domelen, Brian Vickers, Matthias Wiesmann, Stephen Wilcoxon, and Tor Iver Wilhelmsen for additions, corrections, and all-around friendly service to this list, and of course Brian David Phillips for providing the original list. Special thanks to Stephane "Alias" Gallay, Tom Granvold, Brian J. Maloney, Yoko Miyamoto, and Jim Ogle for extensive help in improving it: Stephane Gallay for extensive help with games not available in the States, Tom Granvold for looking up lots of addresses, Brian for improving the categorization on several occasions, as well as extensive revisions, Yoko Miyamoto for extensive information on Japanese RPGs, and Jim for researching the Genie addresses of RPG companies (as soon as he does it. :-) ) Comments and corrections always welcome. Please E-mail them to [s--r--e] at [cqs.washington.edu.] ======================================================================== Gratuitous Groveling and Infelicitous Information ======================================================================== The most obvious questions are the blank spots in the list. I will go ahead and list them here, so that the questions are more centralized. Who is the publisher of The Yellow Dragon? Who is the publisher of 1789? Other more miscellaneous questions: Does anyone know if the Manhunter published by Kingslayer Pub., StarChilde Pub., and Whit Pub. are all the same game? Can anyone think of a good way to divide the Traditional Fantasy and Other Science Fiction Categories? Does anyone know who currently owns the copyright for Whimsy Cards? Finally, some general information about the list: The next major categorization change I'll make is to split the Supplement Lines for Any Game category into Supplements, Campaigns, and Rules, or something along those lines. If you know what categories any or all of the supplements lines belong in, please let me know. For those people who don't have Usenet access (or even those who do), I am willing to maintain a list of people who wish to be E-mailed the list on a semi-regular basis. If you wish to be added to that list, or you know someone who does, please let me know. I am also planning to, at some point in the not-so-near future, create a list of people who know a lot of publisher, etc. information about many different RPGs---sort of a list of experts who can verify questions about obscure RPGs. If anyone wants to be added to that list, when I get around to creating it, let me know. I list multiple publishers for products that have been taken over by a new company (Like Talislanta) so that people who have the old version can still find the game on the list. According to the Games Quarterly Catalog, many games considered out of print by the net at large (including several games by Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU)) are still available. Talk to your local game store or game distributor for more information. ACE Agents does not actually have an ! in its name, despite having one on the cover of the game. DragonQuest has been published by TSR in two forms, as far as I know. The old, out of print TSR version was a remake of SPI's DragonQuest, and the more recent version is reported as a sort of light version of Basic D&D. Gamma World, while technically a post-holocaust game is listed among science fantasy games because I feel that grouping describes it better. Harnmaster is Historical fantasy because the background for the game is very close to actual Western middle ages civilization. Renegade Nuns on Wheels and Bat-winged Bimbos from Hell are supplements for Macho Women With Guns and not actually separate games. Swords and Glory is actually a supplement for Empire of the Petal Throne, not a separate game. MERS is the name for the German version of MERP, and Schwerter und D"amonen is the name for the German version of Tunnels and Trolls. L'Oeil Noir is the name for the French version of Das Schwarze Auge. The Psi games are lumped in with Superhero (people with powers beyond those of mere mortals) because there aren't enough games (yet) to warrant a separate category. -- Jonathan Sari ([s--r--e] at [io.com]) WWW home page: http://www.cqs.washington.edu/~surge/index.html