Chivalry & Sorcery, Second Edition

The second edition, released in 1983, was presented in a cardboard box containing three booklets of rules. There are no fundamental mechanical changes as compared with C&S1, but multiple changes try to clarify or simplify some points in the ru...

Gamma World 2st Edition

Gamma World is a post-apocalyptic, science-fiction role playing game. The second edition Gamma World boxed set (with rules designed by Ward, Jaquet, and David James Ritchie) was released in 1983.

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Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (1983)

Renamed Dungeons & Dragons Set 1: Basic Rules and written by Frank Mentzer. The set included a sixty-four page Players Manual, a forty-eight page Dungeon Masters Rulebook, six dice, and in sets in which the dice were not painted, a crayon. The...

Call of Cthulhu 2nd Edition

Call of Cthulhu is a horror fiction role-playing game based on H. P. Lovecraft's story of "The Call of Cthulhu" and HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

The second edition eliminated the separate Basic Role Playing book from the box and conta...

Powers & Perils

Powers & Perils (P&P) is a role-playing game written by Richard Snider and published by Avalon Hill in 1983 as a boxed set. It consisted of four main rule books ("The Character Book", "Combat and Magic", "The Creature Book", and "Treasure ...

Lords of Creation

Lords of Creation was a table top role-playing game published by Avalon Hill in 1983 and 1984. The game was written by Tom Moldvay who also worked on the games Dungeons and Dragons and Star Frontiers.

Lords of Creation was not set in a ...

Wizard's World

Back in 1983 a small Californian game company, Fantasy Worlds Unlimited, released WIZARDS' WORLD, a fantasy RPG. The result of how the author's home game evolved, WIZARDS' WORLD included several innovations for its time, not unlike other efforts f...