- The Metabarons Roleplaying Game
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The Metabarons Roleplaying Game Designer(s) Peter Schweighofer Publisher(s) West End Games Publication date 2001 Genre(s) Space opera System(s) D6 System The Metabarons Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game set within the mystically-inclined and oppressive space opera setting, the Jodoverse created by Alexandro Jodorowsky originally in the form of French language comic books. In the game, players play, not the Metabarons themselves, but common folk in the same universe affected by the Metabarons. Progress in the game depends heavily on adhering to a personal (and in many cases, self-created) honor code, though not one usually based on a simple good/evil or wrong/right dichotomy, and on resisting the Necrodream, representing complacency, laziness and apathy.
Contents
Books and Supplements
Only three books were released for this game, though there were plans for several others that never materialized.[citation needed] The game is currently out of print and West End Games seems to no longer support it.
Rulebook
The 288 page hardcover rulebook volume featured original color artwork by Travis Charest, who provided the cover, as well as original Jodoverse comic book artists Jean Giraud, Juan Gimenez, Zoran Janjetov and others.
The Metabarons Game Master Screen
The color game master screen came bundled with an 80-page supplement called The Metabarons Companion Book 1.
Metabarons Guidebook #1: The Path of the Warrior
A supplement with information derived from the first volume of the Metabarons comic book appeared in 2002.
External links
- A press release announcing the game.
- West End Games (US Publisher for the game)
Alejandro Jodorowsky Films directed Les têtes interverties · Fando y Lis · El Topo · The Holy Mountain · Tusk · Santa Sangre · The Rainbow ThiefComics written Unrealized works Abel Cain · King ShotRelated topics Panic Movement · The Metabarons Roleplaying GameCategories:- Jodoverse
- Science fiction role-playing games
- D6 System
- Role-playing games based on comics
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