Startown Liberty

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Startown Liberty
DesignersJ. Andrew Keith
PublishersGame Designers' Workshop
Publication1984
GenresScience-fiction
SystemsClassic Traveller

Startown Liberty 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[edit]

Startown Liberty is a supplement which provides encounters and events to take place in the area near the starport of a world.[1]

Publication history[edit]

Startown Liberty was written by John Marshal,[2]: 56  with art by William H. Keith Jr., and was published in 1984 by Gamelords as a digest-sized 48-page book.[3]

Reception[edit]

Stephen Nutt reviewed Startown Liberty for Imagine magazine, and stated that "Startown liberty is not a full scenario, it is a play-aid. As such it is really useful to a referee and it can be used over and over again."[4]

Tony Watson reviewed Startown Liberty in The Space Gamer No. 72.[1] Watson commented that "Startown Liberty is a fine way to provide a playing group with diversion, red herrings, or a necessary contact."[1]

Reviews[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Watson, Tony (January–February 1985). "Featured Review: Traveller Supplements from Gamelords". The Space Gamer. No. 72. Steve Jackson Games. pp. 7–8.
  2. ^ Appelcline, Shannon (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  3. ^ Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 340. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
  4. ^ Nutt, Stephen (July 1984). "Notices". Imagine (review). No. 16. TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd. p. 41.