The "Coming Attractions" column in issue #99 of Dragon (July 1985) included an entry for a new science fiction roleplaying game entitled Proton Fire.
The entry does not specify a release date, which only makes sense, because the game was never released. Steve Winter, who worked at TSR at the time, explained that Proton Fire was in fact completed (and even playested) but that it was canceled due to a lack of enthusiasm on the part of both TSR and its distributors. Nevertheless, I still sometimes think about Proton Fire and what it might have been like, but then I am also a connoisseur of vaporware RPGs, so that should come as little surprise.
So how would one go about obtaining a copy of the play-testing rules?
ReplyDeleteI'm intrigued by Proton Fire, I doubt it'll ever happen but I'd love to see the manuscript get out somehow.
ReplyDeleteI still have my copy of DROIDS" A Cybernetic Role Playing Game by Neil Patrick Moore, published by Integral Games in 1982. It was panned at the time of publication but my high school group spent a month building robots and bouncing against one another in combat. The role playing part was pretty limited but we did try an bootstrap a Gamma World module with droids created in the system. Ah, fond memories...
ReplyDeleteWe also tried to take some of the Droids and mashup with the Rivets Microgame by Metagaming. It was a epic fail but still a lot of fun.
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