Gatecrasher: A FUDGE Role-Playing Game - Softcover

Michael W. Lucas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1887154019 ISBN 13: 9781887154017

Publisher: Grey Ghost Press, 1996

Synopsis

Gatecrasher is a lighthearted high-tech and high-fantasy role-playing game. There are many PC races, including doppelgangers, elves, humans, lycanthropes, ogres, and wyverns. Each character has special abilities and super-normal powers such as telepathy, spell-casting, or cybernetic enhancements. Using the FUDGE game system, the Gatecrasher game is flexible and easy to play.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

In the Gatecrasher universe, High Tech and High Wizardry struggle for supremacy. Armored knights board space shuttles to pursue their chosen dragons across the solar system. Angels uphold the ideals of truth and justice; demons connive to make a quick buck. Lycanthropes on Saturn's moons howl at the full planet overhead while cybernetic orcs inspect their power armor in preparation for storming a wizard's enclave...

Gatecrasher is a lighthearted high-tech high-fantasy role-playing game. Player characters may be of a variety of races, including elves, humans, ogres, and wyverns. Each character has special abilities and supernormal powers such as telepathy, spell-casting, or cybernetic enhancements.

This book provides all the rules and campaign background needed to play. (Six-sided dice, percentile dice, and optional FUDGE dice not included.) Based on the FUDGE game system - a skill-based RPG that emphasizes role-playing over rules - the Gatecrasher game is flexible and easy to play.

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3,000,000,001 B.C. Long ago, a warp in space allowed another universe's "physics" to enter our universe. Early humanity called the effects this produced "magic." The world was a quiet, enchanted place. Unicorns pranced gaily through moonlit fields. Brave dragons slew viciously marauding knights for the peace of mind of all concerned.

101 A.D. The space warp closed, the reign of magic ended, and humanity settled down to the mundane business of developing technology.

All of humanity, that is, except one.

Kelorinthol the Incredible, magician extraordinaire, refused to surrender the power he had labored so long to develop. With magical energy he had saved through the years, he teleported himself deep into space and inscribed an interdimensional Gate of truly ridiculous proportions in an attempt to restore the warp. He completed the Gate, but lacked the energy to activate it before he died.

The Gate waited, accumulating energy through the centuries...

2194 A.D. Bristol Addams, explorer and prospector for the China-dominated world government, discovered a colossal iridium deposit on Jupiter's moon Ganymede. Closer inspection uncovered a twenty-one-centuries dead mummy and cabalistic engravings on the surface of the ore deposit.

The Gate bristled with energy, requiring only a touch, a word, or a gesture to open - all three of which Addams kindly provided when he climbed onto the icy surface to investigate.

Oops.

2371 A.D. Physics is under martial law. Mother Nature's operating license has been revoked. Reality is suspended for the duration.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grey Ghost Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1887154019
• ISBN 13: 9781887154017
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Ann E. Dupuis
• Illustrator: N. Taylor Blanchard