The Undersea Environment

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The Undersea Environment
Gamelords Undersea environment RPG supplement cover 1983.jpg
Designers J. Andrew Keith
Publishers Game Designers' Workshop
Publication1983
GenresScience-fiction
SystemsClassic Traveller

The Undersea Environment is a 1983 role-playing game supplement, written by J. Andrew Keith for Traveller , and published by Gamelords.

Contents

Contents

The Undersea Environment is a supplement that details alien oceans, including factors in the depths that affect characters such as pressure, gravity, temperature, the effects of decompression on divers, and undersea communication and combat. [1]

Publication history

The Undersea Environment was written by J. Andrew Keith, with art by William H. Keith Jr., and was published in 1983 by Gamelords as a digest-sized 48-page book. [2]

A companion adventure, The Drenslaar Quest was written by the same author.

Reception

Tony Watson reviewed The Mountain Environment and The Undersea Environment together in The Space Gamer No. 72. [1] Watson commented that "The tight focus and elaborate detail of these supplements is both their strength and weakness. Just about all aspects of mountain and undersea environments are covered, but I wonder just how much of this material is really going to make its way into the average adventure." [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Watson, Tony (January–February 1985). "Featured Review: Traveller Supplements from Gamelords". The Space Gamer. No. 72. Steve Jackson Games. pp. 6–7.
  2. Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 342. ISBN   0-87975-653-5.