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Ringworld

Known Space

Science Fiction (Hard Sci Fi)

Dice (Percentile) Dice (Various) Point Based (allocate points to get skills, powers, etc) Race Based (Player Race/Species affects gameplay) Skill Based (buy or gain skills)

The Ringworld science fiction role-playing game was published by Chaosium in 1984, using the Basic Role-Playing (BRP) for its rules and Larry Niven's Ringworld novels as a setting.

The players initially play explorers from Known Space, sent as scouts to the Ringworld. They can be anthropologists, artists, doctors, police, or even zealots, who will explore the mysteries of this huge artificial world and its inhabitants. Basic characters can be humans from a dozen planets of Human Space, Puppeteers, or Kzin. Later play can see characters from Ringworld species, such as the (so-called) Ghouls, Vampires, Giants, Sea People, and others.

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