Fifth Cycle
Fifth Cycle is a role-playing game published by Shield Games in 1990.
Description
Fifth Cycle is a fantasy game, a fairly simple skill-based system.[1] Player characters choose professions, each of which has a group of skills associated with it; the player assigns starting points to the skills as desired.[1] The player characters are the usual fantasy races, with the addition of a winged, flying race.[1] Magic is a spell-point system, and quite a few spells are described.[1] The background of the world of Dolphinis is briefly covered.[1]
Publication history
Fifth Cycle was designed by Robert Bartels and published by Shield Games in 1990 as a 198-page book.[1]
Reception
Fifth Cycle is one of a dozen role-playing games termed by Ron Edwards in 2002 as "fantasy heartbreakers" - fantasy RPG games that were designed by people who seemed to know nothing about the advancement of game design since the original productions of Dungeons & Dragons.[2]
Reviews
- White Wolf #29 (Oct./Nov., 1991)
- Dragon (Issue 179 - Mar 1992)
References
- ^ a b c d e f Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 157. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
- ^ Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. p. 408. ISBN 978-1-907702- 58-7.