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Raiders And Traders
''Raiders and Traders'', subtitled "The Heroic Age of Greece", is a board game published by Chaosium in 1979 that simulates the world of Hellenic Greece. Description ''Raiders and Traders'' is a board game for 2–6 players where each player attempts to build an empire in the setting of ancient Greece. The game components include a map of the Aegean Basin, 300 counters, 80 money pieces, and 40 player cards. There are three scenarios: * Raiding: Players conduct raids to expand into other territories. * The Beginning: Indo-European tribes migrate into the Aegean Basin, and select patron gods, build walled settlements, make beneficial marriages, and use diplomacy to expand their territory. * Empire: Pirates and random action cards are added to play. There are also optional rules for deities, the Oracle of Delphi, and Heroes (who bring both advantages and disadvantages to the player.) Publication history ''Raiders and Traders'' was created by Donald Dupont and published by Chaosiu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaosium
Chaosium Inc. ( ) is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford (game designer), Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include ''Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game), Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fiction stories of H. P. Lovecraft''; RuneQuest Glorantha''; ''Pendragon (role-playing game), Pendragon'', based on Thomas Mallory's ''Le Morte d'Arthur''; and ''7th Sea (role-playing game), 7th Sea'', "swashbuckling and sorcery" set in a fantasy 17th-century Europe. Many of Chaosium's product lines are based upon literary sources. While Stafford himself has been described as "one of the most decorated game designers of all time" and "the grand shaman of gaming", multiple other notable game designers have written for Chaosium. These include David Conyers, Matthew Costello, Larry DiTillio, Paul Fricker (game designer), Paul Fricker, David A. Hargrave, Rob Heinsoo, Keith Herber, Jennell Jaquays, Katharine Kerr, Reiner Knizia, Charlie Krank, Rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellenic Greece
Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in ancient Greece,The "Classical Age" is "the modern designation of the period from about 500 B.C. to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C." ( Thomas R. Martin, ''Ancient Greece'', Yale University Press, 1996, p. 94). marked by much of the eastern Aegean and northern regions of Greek culture (such as Ionia and Macedonia) gaining increased autonomy from the Persian Empire; the peak flourishing of democratic Athens; the First and Second Peloponnesian Wars; the Spartan and then Theban hegemonies; and the expansion of Macedonia under Philip II. Much of the early defining mathematics, science, artistic thought (architecture, sculpture), theatre, literature, philosophy, and politics of Western civilization derives from this period of Greek history, which had a powerful influence on the later Roman Empire. Part of the broader era of classical antiquity, the classical Greek era ended after Philip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
