Buck Rogers XXVc: The 25th Century Science Fiction Role Playing Game [BOX SET]

by Mike Pondsmith

The XXVc Role-Playing Game describes the world of the 25th Century in vivid detail. Join the forces of the New Earth Organization and help Buck Rogers and his allies to fight the tyranny of the Martians; team up with the other members of your group to buy a spaceship and go into business yourselves, running blockades or carrying vital supplies and information; make a fortune (or lose one) by visiting the solar system's biggest casino in the Asteroid Belt.

All of these opportunities, and countless others, are open to players of the XXVc game. In the world of the 25th Century, the sky is NOT the limit - it's just the first small step on a long and exciting journey!

The game box includes everything a group of players needs to start and adventuring campaign :

Characters & Combat, a 96-pages book of rules.
The World Book, 64 pages of information about the places and people of the solar system.
The Technology Book, 32 pages of description about the equipment and weaponry of the 25th Century.
Four large full-color maps :
    The bustling spaceport at Tycho, on the moon
    Interior diagrams of two ship types, scaled for use with 25mm miniature figures
    A graphic display of the inner solar system
    An outer-space hex grid, for conducting ship-vs.-ship combat
A special see-through measuring device for moving ships between planets.
Twenty-four full color cards :
    Thirteen different kinds of spaceships
    Seven major non-player characters of the XXVc game universe, including Buck Rogers
    Maps of Mars, Venus, Earth and Luna
A sheet of die-cut ship counters and markers.
A foldout referee's screen with all the charts and tables needed during play, plus a set of dice.

210 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1990

About the author

Michael Alyn Pondsmith is an American roleplaying, board, and video game designer. He founded the publisher R. Talsorian Games in 1982, where he developed a majority of the company's role-playing game lines. Pondsmith is the author of several RPG lines, including Mekton (1984), Cyberpunk (1988) and Castle Falkenstein (1994). He also contributed to the Forgotten Realms and Oriental Adventures lines of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, worked in various capacities on video games, and authored or co-created several board games. Pondsmith also worked as an instructor at the DigiPen Institute of Technology.