Gisby’s Gaming Blog

August 14, 2008

SPACE 1889: A German walker

Filed under: Victorian Adventure Gaming — Tags: , , — gisby @ 10:28 pm

I am a big fan of the SPACE 1889 rules and setting. They had role-playing rules, tabletop battle rules, plus aerial and naval rules. They combined Victorian and Barsoomian elements well, and deserved to be far more popular than they were. Even now, 20 years later they still have a following.

I’ll admit, in places the rules weren’t great, but in others they were teriffic.

Where they shone, was in background. The rules themselves were followed by a bunch of reasonably priced sourcebooks, each with background material a-plenty and a really crappy scenario. More…

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1 Comment »

  1. looking nice! I like this setting. I should try to pick up a rule set sometime.

    Comment by bongotastic — September 3, 2008 @ 10:48 am


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