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Smuggler's Guide to the Rim is a sourcebook published by Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd in 2015 as a supplement for the Firefly Role-Playing Game , which itself is based on the Firefly TV series .
Smuggler's Guide to the Rim presents more information about the Firefly role-playing game setting, including: [1]
The book also includes two adventures: "All in the Family" by Margaret Weis, and "Circling the Wagons" by Greg Stolze.
In 2005, Margaret Weis Productions acquired the role-playing game license for Serenity , the movie based on the Firefly TV series, and subsequently produced the Serenity Role Playing Game that used the first iteration of the Cortex System rules. That license expired in 2011, and production of the Serenity role-playing game ended. In 2013, the company announced that they now had a license to produce a game based on the Firefly TV series, this time with the rights to the characters who appeared in the series rather than those who appeared in the film. [2] After the release of preview adventures Gamin' in the Verse and Freedom Flyer in 2013, the Firefly Role-Playing Game was released in 2014. This was followed by a series of sourcebooks and adventures. The fourth of these was Smuggler's Guide to the Rim, a 296-page PDF and soft-cover book designed by Bill Bodden, Jaym Gates, Deanna Gilbert, Travis Heermann, Aaron Rosenberg, Brie Sheldon, Greg Stolze, PK Sullivan, Monica Valentinelli, Eddy Webb, and Margaret Weis, with artwork by Joseph Carriker, Thomas Deeny, Brian Glass, Craig S. Grant, Yigit Koroglu, Ben Mund, Beth Sobel, Andrew Trabbold, Kieran Yanner, and Darius Zablockis. It was published in 2015. [1]
Writing for Escapist Magazine, Marshall Lemon noted that "Smuggler’s Guide to the Rim has a fantastic Reputation system for managing factions, and an upgraded character sheet with an 'episode guide' that tracks experience." While Lemon agreed that the core game was playable without these additions, he concluded, "they add so much that Firefly feels lacking without them." [3]
Thomas Robert for Casus Belli said that the basic faction and reputation management system in the book would be an excuse to add more dice to the GM or crew pools. [4]
Chill is an investigative and modern horror role-playing game originally published by Pacesetter Ltd in 1984 that captures the feel of 20th-century horror films.
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The Serenity Role Playing Game is a science fiction role-playing game released in 2005 and set in the universe of the movie Serenity. It was produced by Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd, and its mechanics were the first iteration of the Cortex System. It won an Origins Award for best RPG in 2005 and Margaret Weis' license came to an end on January 31, 2011.
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This is a complete list of works by American science fiction and fantasy author Margaret Weis.
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Echoes of War: Thrillin' Heroics is the first title published for Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd's Firefly Role-Playing Game. This supplement was awarded an ENnie Judges' Spotlight Award at Gen Con 2015.
Things Don't Go Smooth is a source book published by Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd in 2014 for the science fiction role-playing game Firefly Role-Playing Game, itself based on the TV series of the same name. The two scenarios detailed in the book utilize the Cortex Plus system.
Ghosts in the Black is the fifth title published for Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd's Firefly Role-Playing Game. Robin Laws described his concept for the adventures contained in this supplement as "a pastiche of a property which itself has a heavy element of pastiche in it, because it's a space opera which is actually a tribute to the classic westerns."
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