You Only Live Twice is a licensed adventure published by Victory Games in 1984 for the espionage role-playing game James Bond 007 .
You Only Live Twice is a licensed adventure published by Victory Games in 1984 for the espionage role-playing game James Bond 007 .
The You Only Live Twice boxed set contains a 56-page book of the adventure, a cardstock gamemaster's screen with maps of Japan and the villain's hideout, and an envelope with 8 sheets of player handouts, including imitation photographs, and an article from the Times . The adventure is scaled for four Rookie Agents, and is based on the plot of the movie You Only Live Twice . [1]
MI6 is searching for a Soviet space shuttle containing a deadly virus that has disappeared in the area of the Sea of Japan.
The 56-page book is divided into five parts: [2]
In Issue 24 of Imagine , Nick Davison wrote that the player handouts were "excellent", and the artwork was "of a high standard." He also liked the frequent advice for the gamemaster about how to guide players back to the plotline should they stray. He recommended the boxed set, saying, "This scenario should provide entertainment for numerous role-playing sessions." [1]
Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes (MSPE) is a tabletop role-playing game designed and written by Michael A. Stackpole and first published in April 1983 by Blade, a division of Flying Buffalo, Inc. A second edition was later published by Sleuth Publications in 1986, but Flying Buffalo continues to distribute the game. In 2019 a new revised Combined Edition of MSPE was published by Flying Buffalo which brought the different material from the previous editions and included additional new rules and expansions to the original rpg. MSPE's mechanics are based on those of Tunnels and Trolls, with the addition of a skill system for characters. A few adventure modules were also released for MSPE.
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