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First Colony (Blue Planet)
''First Colony'' is a 2000 role-playing game supplement published by Biohazard Games for '' Blue Planet''. Contents ''First Colony'' is a supplement in which the city of Haven on the world of Poseidon is detailed. Reviews *''Pyramid A pyramid () is a structure whose visible surfaces are triangular in broad outline and converge toward the top, making the appearance roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense. The base of a pyramid can be of any polygon shape, such as trian ...'' *'' Backstab'' *''Anduin'' (Issue 70 - Mar 2002) References {{reflist Role-playing game supplements introduced in 2000 ...
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Biohazard Games
Biohazard Games is a company located in Columbia, Missouri that publishes role-playing games, most of them designed by Jeff Barber and Jim Heivilin. The company tends to work closely with Fantasy Flight Games. History Many Biohazard employees originally produced work for ''The Unspeakable Oath'' published by Pagan Press when it was located in Columbia, Missouri. But when Pagan founder John Scott Tynes moved the company to Seattle in 1994, a core of people including Jeff Barber chose to stay in Columbia. Barber subsequently founded Biohazard Games. As game historian Shannon Appelcline explained in the 2014 book ''Designers & Dragons'', "Many of the Pagan volunteers lived together there — and not all of them wanted to move. Jeff Barber and others would leave Pagan as a result. Sadly, their departure was not entirely amicable." Biohazard's first product was a 1995 supplement for modern-era role-playing games titled '' Killer Crosshairs''. Their next product, and the one they wou ...
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Blue Planet (role-playing Game)
''Blue Planet'' is an environmentalist science fiction role-playing game first published by Biohazard Games in 1997, set on the planet Poseidon. Setting ''Blue Planet'' is set on the alien water world Poseidon, where human colonists fleeing an irreparably damaged Earth, Terran megacorporations looking for a rare ore and the indigenous aliens who live in the extensive oceans clash over how to use and steward the planet's resources. The game includes genetically "uplifted" dolphins and orcas as playable characters on either side of the native/Terran dichotomy. First edition (BPv1): Biohazard Games The first edition (BPv1), a 348-page book dedicated to Jacques Cousteau, was demonstrated and released at Origins in 1997 to critical acclaim, receiving a nomination for the ''Game of the Year'' Origins award. Approximately 250 of the 348 pages of the rulebook are dedicated to background about the planet Poseidon. The first edition uses a complex percentile (d100) system to reso ...
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Pyramid (magazine)
''Pyramid'' was a US game, gaming magazine, publishing articles primarily on role-playing games, but including board games, card games, and other sorts of games. It began life in 1993 as a print publication of Steve Jackson Games for its first 30 issues, and was published on the Internet from March 1998. Print issues were bimonthly; the first online version published new articles each week; the second online version was monthly, published until December 2018. ''Pyramid'' was headquartered in Austin, Texas, Austin, Texas. It replaced Steve Jackson Games' previous magazine ''Roleplayer (magazine), Roleplayer''. ''Pyramid'' published general gaming articles by freelance authors, as well as Designer's Notes by Steve Jackson Games product developers, industry news, cartoons, and gaming product reviews. Although articles tended to concentrate on Steve Jackson Games products such as ''GURPS'', it published articles on other games such as ''d20 System'', ''Talisman (board game), Talisma ...
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