The ''WARS Roleplaying Game'' is a role-playing game published by

Mongoose Publishing Mongoose Publishing is a British manufacturer of role-playing games, miniatures, and card games, publishing material since 2001. Its licenses include products based on the science fiction properties '' Traveller'', ''Judge Dredd'', and ''Parano ...

in 2005.

Description

The ''WARS Roleplaying Game'' is a

d20 System The d20 System is a role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast, originally developed for the Editions of Dungeons & Dragons#Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition, 3rd edition of ''Dungeons & Dragons''. The system is named after ...

game based on the '' WARS Trading Card Game''.

Publication history

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in his book '' Designers & Dragons'' noted that

publication was slowing down by 2003 so publishers moved to standalone role-playing games which relied on the

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rather than supplements requiring the core rulebooks of ''

Dungeons & Dragons ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by TSR (company)#Tactical ...

'' or the d20 trademark license, and that

was "As usual ..in the lead on this trend. Beginning in 2003, they put out six games that did not use the d20 trademark but which used familiar d20 systems available via the OGL", including the ''WARS Roleplaying Game'' in 2005. Applecline noted that some of these lines did well, while others "did not fair as well due to the newfound weakness of d20" and that its supplement ''WARS: Soul and Steel'' "never saw print; it was instead run in ''Signs & Portents'' from issue #39 (December, 2006) to #51 (December, 2007).

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