Wanted: Adventurers

{{short description|Science-fiction role-playing game supplement}}

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{{Infobox RPG

|title=Wanted: Adventurers

|publisher=Game Designers' Workshop

|date={{Start date and age|1984|br=yes}}

|image=Wanted_Adventurers_Gamelords_RPG_supplement_cover_1984.jpg

|caption=Cover by William H. Keith

|system=Classic Traveller

|genre=Science-fiction

|designer=J. Andrew Keith}}

Wanted: Adventurers is a 1984 role-playing game supplement, written by J. Andrew Keith under the pen-name of John Marshal for Traveller published by Gamelords.

Contents

Wanted: Adventurers is a book containing short adventure scenarios.

Publication history

Wanted: Adventurers was written by John Marshal,{{Cite book |last=Appelcline|first=Shannon |title=Designers & Dragons |publisher=Mongoose Publishing |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-907702-58-7}}{{rp|56}} and was published in 1984 by Gamelords as a digest-sized 48-page book.{{Cite book |last=Schick |first=Lawrence |title=Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games |publisher=Prometheus Books |year=1991 |isbn=0-87975-653-5 |pages=342 |author-link=Lawrence Schick}}

Reception

Stephen Nutt reviewed Wanted: Adventurers for Imagine magazine, and stated that "The scenarios contained in this play aid are only skeletons. yet it gives depth to the referee's campaigns and allows off-the-cuff activity in play sessions."{{Cite magazine |last=Nutt |first=Stephen |date=September 1984 |title=Notices |magazine=Imagine |type=review |publisher=TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd. |issue=18 |page=41}}

William A. Barton reviewed Wanted: Adventurers in Space Gamer No. 72.{{Cite magazine |last=Barton |first=William A. |date=January–February 1985 |title=Featured Review: Traveller Supplements from Gamelords |magazine=The Space Gamer |publisher=Steve Jackson Games |issue=72 |page=8}} Barton commented that "Most of the scenarios outlined in Wanted: Adventurers are intriguing hooks that a clever referee can turn into exciting adventure situations."

Reviews

  • Different Worlds #47 (Fall, 1987)
  • Polyhedron #75{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/polyhedron-153/Polyhedron%20075/page/24/mode/2up | title=Dungeons & Dragons World - Magazines - Polyhedron Magazine }}

References