Shatterzone Science Fiction RPG 3 Book Set & Supplement

Shatterzone Science Fiction Role Playing Game published by West End Games, Honesdale, USA. 1993 West End Games. Four paperback books all including black and white artwork and diagrams.

Shatterzone: The Rule Book. 96 page book. The rulebook is aimed primarily at the Games Master and is split into the following chapters:

• Chapter 1: Games Mastering
• Chapter 2: The Rules
• Chapter 3: Interaction and Combat
• Chapter 4: Advanced Interaction and Combat
• Chapter 5: The Card Deck. NB Many of the actions in this games system are moderated by a special deck of cards. I do not possess the card deck and cannot offer it for sale with these books, but reading through this section I do not think it would be difficult to create a deck using normal playing cards and giving them appropriate values and meanings. I also feel the game system would work with other forms of producing modifiers e.g. dice rolls for modification of character attributes.
• Chapter 6: Designing and Running Adventures.
• Chapter 7: Ships (Spaceships)
• Chapter 8: Space Combat (ship to ship combat in space)

Shatterzone: The Players Guide. 84 page rule book. Chapters include:

• Chapter 1: Character Generation
• Chapter 2: Attributes and Skills
• Chapter 3: Background Generation
• Chapter 4: Player Information
• Chapter 5: The Basic Rules
• Chapter 6: Psionics
• Character Profiles: 10 pre-generated character sheets and one blank character sheet for copying and use in the game

Shatterzone: The Universe Guide: 96 page book. Chapters include:

• Chapter 1: The Universe
• Chapter 2: The Shatterzone
• Chapter 3: Fleet (Space fleet Organisation and Statistics)
• Chapter 4: The Megacorps (Big Business interest in the Shatterzone universe)
• Chapter 5: Species (Information on human and non human intelligent species)
• Chapter 6: Planets (Some specimen worlds and how to design others)
• Chapter 7: The Xenos Sector
• Chapter 8: Equipment - Statistics on Armour ,Weaponry and other equipment followed by an equipment chart summary.

Shatterzone: Brain Dead: 64 page book. A complete Shatterzone scenario including maps and statistics. Additionally, bound into the centre of this book is an eight page folded quick reference card.

This is a complete science fiction role playing system placed loosely 500 years or so into the future. The only thing missing is the random card pack but without it the system is still playable with minor modifications and the statistics and information given could be used in similar science fiction role playing e.g. Traveller.

There is some slight scuffing to the covers but in general all books are in a good clean, nearly new, condition.