Cassiopean Empire is a role-playing game published by Norton Games in 1982.
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Cassiopean Empire is a science-fiction space-adventure system, with rules for character creation, spaceships, star systems, aliens, robots, and a description of the interstellar Empire. [1]
Cassiopean Empire was designed by Raymond Norton, and published by Norton Games in 1982 as a 16-page book with a character record sheet. [1] The game included art by F.Scott McKown.[ citation needed ]
Allen Varney reviewed the 1985 release of Advanced Cassiopeian Empire in Space Gamer No. 76. [2] Varney commented that "There's so much wrong with this game that I can't even find the parts that are right . . . assuming there are any. Such searching doesn't seem worth the effort." [2]
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Lawrence Schick called this game "Amateurish", and noted that the character creation rules were similar to Traveller . [1]
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