The Shade of the Sinking Plain

Last updated

The Shade of the Sinking Plain is a 1984 fantasy role-playing game adventure published by North Pole Publications [1] for the Rolemaster role-playing game.

Contents

Plot summary

The Shade of the Sinking Plain is an adventure in which a huge battle barge has been looting and sinking smaller ships on the rivers of a swamp. [2]

Reception

Jeff Ong reviewed The Shade of the Sinking Plain in Space Gamer No. 72. [2] Ong commented that "Shade of the Sinking Plain sells for nearly as much as some RPGs cost [...] Unless you are a hardcode hack-and-slasher, try the ICE Rolemaster modules instead, and don't waste your time and money." [2]

Related Research Articles

<i>Villains and Vigilantes</i> Tabletop superhero role-playing game

Villains and Vigilantes is a superhero-themed role-playing game which competed primarily with Champions and Superworld in the early to mid-1980s.

Rolemaster is a tabletop role-playing game published by Iron Crown Enterprises since 1980.

<i>Middle-earth Role Playing</i> 1984 Tabletop fantasy role-playing game

Middle-earth Role Playing (MERP) is a 1984 role-playing game based on J. R. R. Tolkien'sThe Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit under license from Tolkien Enterprises. Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) published the game until they lost the license on 22 September 1999.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Iron Crown Enterprises</span>

Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) is a publishing company that has produced role playing, board, miniature, and collectible card games since 1980. Many of ICE's better-known products were related to J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth, but the Rolemaster rules system, and its science-fiction equivalent, Space Master, have been the foundation of ICE's business.

Jeff Grubb is an author who writes novels, short stories, and comics and a computer and role-playing game designer in the fantasy genre. Grubb worked on the Dragonlance campaign setting under Tracy Hickman, and the Forgotten Realms setting with Ed Greenwood. His written works include The Finder's Stone Trilogy, the Spelljammer and Jakandor campaign settings, and contributions to Dragonlance and the computer game Guild Wars Nightfall (2006).

<i>Space Master</i> Tabletop science fiction role-playing game

Space Master is a science fiction role-playing game produced by Iron Crown Enterprises, written by Kevin Barrett and developed by Kevin Barrett and Terry K. Amthor.

Magic systems in games are the rules, limitations, abilities, and characteristics that define magic in a game.

<i>Dragons of Flame</i> (module)

Dragons of Flame is the second module in the first major story arc in the Dungeons & DragonsDragonlance series of game modules. It is one of the 14 Dragonlance adventures published by TSR between 1984 and 1986. Its cover features a painting by Jeff Easley depicting Tasslehoff Burrfoot peering at a red dragon and Verminaard of the Dragonarmies of Ansalon.

Mjolnir LLC was a company that produced licensed products of the defunct game company Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) under an agreement with Aurigas Aldebaron LLC, who had purchased I.C.E.'s assets following its bankruptcy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Terry K. Amthor</span> American game designer

Terry K. Amthor was an American game designer who worked primarily on role-playing games, and as a fantasy author.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arms Law</span> Role-playing game supplement

Arms Law is a supplement published by Iron Crown Enterprises in 1980 for the fantasy role-playing game Rolemaster.

<i>Spell Law</i> Role-playing game supplement

Spell Law is a role-playing game supplement first published by Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) in 1981 and written by Peter C. Fenlon, Jr., S. Coleman Charlton, and Terry K. Amthor, with Steven E. Moffat. It was originally published as a separate boxed set of four books, but was included in the initial 1984 release of the fantasy role-playing game Rolemaster, and a separate third edition Spell Law book for Rolemaster was published in 1986 and a fourth edition book in 1989. Spell Law contains over 2,000 spells for role-playing game characters. It received mixed reviews in game periodicals including Ares, Different Worlds, The Space Gamer, and Dragon.

<i>The Drenslaar Quest</i> Science-fiction role-playing game supplement

The Drenslaar Quest is an adventure, written by J. Andrew Keith, and William H. Keith, and published under license by Gamelords in 1983 for Game Designer's Workshop's science fiction role-playing game Traveller. It utilized the rules from The Undersea Environment by the same author.

The World of Vog Mur is a 1984 fantasy role-playing game supplement published by Iron Crown Enterprises for the Rolemaster role-playing game.

<i>Dagorlad and the Dead Marshes</i> Tabletop role-playing game adventure

Dagorlad and the Dead Marshes is a 1984 fantasy role-playing game adventure published by Iron Crown Enterprises for Middle-earth Role Playing.

<i>Robin Hood the Role Playing Campaign</i> Role-playing game supplement

Robin Hood the Role Playing Campaign is a supplement published by Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) in 1987 that can be used with either the role-playing game systems Rolemaster or Hero System.

<i>Nomads of the Nine Nations</i> Role-playing game supplement

Nomads of the Nine Nations is a supplement published by Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) in 1990 for the fantasy role-playing campaign setting Shadow World that uses either the Rolemaster or the Fantasy Hero role-playing rules system.

<i>Sky Giants of the Brass Stair</i> Tabletop role-playing game supplement

Sky Giants of the Brass Stair is a supplement published by Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) in 1990 for the fantasy role-playing campaign setting Shadow World.

Demons of the Burning Night is a 1989 role-playing game supplement for Rolemaster published by Iron Crown Enterprises.

References

  1. ↑ "North Pole Publications". rpggeek.com. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 Ong, Jeff (Jan–Feb 1985). "Capsule Reviews". Space Gamer . Steve Jackson Games (72): 39–40.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.