Aurore Sourcebook

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Aurore Sourcebook
Humanity's Furthest Outpost
2300 AD Aurore Sourcebook.jpg
Cover by Steve Venters
Designers William H. Keith, Jr.
Publishers Game Designers' Workshop
Publication1987;36 years ago (1987)
Genres Science fiction
Systems 2300 AD
ISBN 0943580374

Aurore Sourcebook is a supplement published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1987 for the science fiction role-playing game 2300 AD .

Contents

Contents

Aurore Sourcebook is a campaign setting supplement which details the distant planet Aurore and includes ideas for adventure scenarios, with eight pages of color illustrations. [1]

Publication history

Aurore Sourcebook was written by William H. Keith, Jr., with a cover by Steve Venters, and was published in 1987 by Game Designers' Workshop as a 96-page book. [1]

Reception

In the May 1988 edition of Dragon (Issue #145), Jim Bambra thought this book "contains a wealth of detail and is stuffed full of adventure ideas... Great care and inspired design have gone into this book." Bambra concluded, "The Aurore Sourcebook is highly recommended as a fully fledged science-fiction setting and as a world of adventure." [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 344. ISBN   0-87975-653-5.
  2. Bambra, Jim (May 1989). "Roleplaying Reviews". Dragon . TSR, Inc. (145): 72–74.