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Based on the 2300 AD combat rules, the macrocombat system yields the same kind of results as would the role-playing system, but with less time and complexity The Sweet Trade in Space: Piracy 42 Erick Melton In any time period when unbridled economic and colonial expansion outrun gov- emmental authority to oversee or protect it, some individuals willfind it easier to tako advantage of others’ honest labor wth some dishonest labor of their own, STAR TREK- Dragon’s Flight C.W. Hess Encounter an alien menace whose actions threaten to bring war between the UFP and the Romulan Empire in this exciting Star Trek adventure Paid in Full Lester W. Smith Crime lords and loan sharks are notoriously untrustworthy, always looking for some way to fake the payment and still seize a ship, even if it requires murder. If you are brave and resourceful, you might survive this adventure! EEE Iceriver Guards Chapter 69 John A. Theisen New Coventry, a hostile and frigid world on the edge of the galaxy near the Impe- rium’s frontier, can best be described as a cross between extreme arctic wilderness and a Death Worid. “Management | Letme shara win you one basi facet ‘offuuisie FPG cesign—he question of - Earths fuunisichstory, Mosteharacors _ arogoing lobo humans, andiwealleame ‘rom Earh. Tho prosiom puttothe design ‘Fei: What il happen to tho Ear Ba piteielamen reese. plying enveonmon Plata face Motr-cay Ears gat ‘ing mar poacall bythe cocade, Wo should thank out lok stars, of cours, ‘and whether tis i due 1o the nuclear Umbrala, greater wisdom among coc hs laces, of ust plain good luck i= somoone oles cobat Al knowie hat {haven't had ght a major wa, my fathor didn, and tho way things look ror wilmyenieren. The woube spots “alte world ae geting fewer and fewer “as itmakes lors and|oss conse to maka _War as a way to enforce stato poi. _-asin, whether thisisallioratend, you ‘elmo But a peaceful wotid is a boring _wori—rem arabe playing pont al vow, iiyway Lot's all be businassmen of ‘Sporishoroes enjoying ho its ofa word _communly. Yeah, agnt Its the designers jb to create a f= ture history which wil turn up te chaos Knob tem toabout9, Let slookatsome examples. In GarVars and Dark Fur, govern smonts havo simply Ercken down so bat ‘ood hghway bates are thor of ho day. In Tight: 2000 This Word War bows everthing away to make for war- larce and soldier Kings, Susequent ia "2300 AD the world gels beck on is fot but ings among tho stars an aon raco bent on humanty’s destueton. In the ‘new Shadowrun game (reviewed on age 74), magic matans reappearance fer a 50-contury vacation, trang the entre worstopsey tury at dragons mest hea atley in Nort America. Tho fends a simpla one-—rako tho games teresting by urningite were S lvng nightmare, youre wondering ‘why mary games have no “peacoat ap. plcatons, x why those tht do ion ty | to make your charactors pick up guns fnyuay,¥ because tho si ol von- tures, forthe mos par, vlertandnover "prety. Chaos|s goveraly more iterest ‘ng than ore, that's all Timothy 8. Brown