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| Designers | David Forthoffer |
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| Publishers | Chaosium |
| Publication | 1980 |
| Genres | Fantasy |
| Systems | Basic Role-Playing |
Foes is a 1980 tabletop role-playing game supplement for RuneQuest written by David Forthoffer, and published by Chaosium. A 16 page version of Foes called Fangs was published by Chaosium in 1980, it was republished in 2016 in PDF format as part of Chaosium's RuneQuest: Classic Edition Kickstarter.
Foes is a supplement of statistics for monsters and characters. [1] Foes contains the statistical profiles of over 1200 computer generated creatures including: Aldryami, Dragonewts, beast men, trolls, flying creatures, lycanthropes, undead, humanoids, and nomads w/mounts. [2]
Steve Jackson reviewed Foes in The Space Gamer No. 28. [1] Jackson commented that "you will probably want it. Just don't let it become a crutch. A book like this should supplement your imagination, not replace it." [1]
Basic Role-Playing (BRP) is a tabletop role-playing game which originated in the RuneQuest fantasy role-playing game. Chaosium released the BRP standalone booklet in 1980 in the boxed set release of the second edition of RuneQuest. Greg Stafford and Lynn Willis are credited as the authors. Chaosium used the percentile skill-based system as the basis for most of their games, including Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer, and Elfquest.
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