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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>In 1993 <a href="/facts/TSR_(company)/fUfhyTN4">TSR</a> ended production on most of its role-playing game lines, including <i><a href="/facts/Gamma_World/fKt75Mvl">Gamma World</a></i>, <i><a href="/facts/Marvel_Super_Heroes_(role-playing_game)/6oXQA3AX">Marvel Super Heroes</a></i>, and <i><a href="/facts/Dungeons_%2526_Dragons_Basic_Set/3gB2jk3k">Basic Dungeons & Dragons</a></i>, and replaced these soon after with a new universal game system via the <i>Amazing Engine System Guide</i> (1993).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>: 27 <i>Amazing Engine</i> was intended as a simple system for beginners, TSR began publishing setting books after the initial rulebook, each of them using various play environments.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>: 27 <i>Amazing Engine</i> was cancelled after 1994.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>: 28 TSR planned for <i><a href="/facts/Alternity/pyV94dnd">Alternity</a></i> to be their generic science-fiction role-playing system which would replace <i>Amazing Engine</i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a>: 284 </p> <h2 id="description">Description</h2> <p>In <i>Amazing Engine</i>, <a href="/facts/Player_characters/YAfuo6f2">player characters</a> are generated with a set of four core <a href="/facts/Statistic_(role-playing_games)/nr8hjXDL">statistics</a>. The core stats were intended to be migrated from book to book, keeping a general character design concept. These stats were then used to build random <a href="/facts/Attribute_(role-playing_games)/9QcmfIdp">ability scores</a>, basic characteristics, and <a href="/facts/Skill_(role-playing_games)/nr8hjXDL">skills</a>. The skills have prerequisites which must first be learned. Skill checks are made using <a href="/facts/Percentile_dice/eplYYRzf">percentile dice</a>. </p> <h2 id="campaign-settings">Campaign settings</h2> <p>Below you'll find summary information for the published worldbooks. </p> <i>Bughunters</i> A near <a href="/facts/Future/c48DtBvI">future</a> worldbook where the players are <a href="/facts/Clone_(genetics)/Te56373e">clones</a> forced to fight the <a href="/facts/Extraterrestrial_life/arxCPFTQ">aliens</a>. Recycled for <i><a href="/facts/D20_Future/xBX5vlQJ">d20 Future</a></i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> <i><a href="/facts/For_Faerie%2c_Queen_%2526_Country/VnbnrIFH">For Faerie, Queen & Country</a></i> Magical <a href="/facts/Victorian_England/HQxGp7wh">Victorian England</a> with a twist. <a href="/facts/Magic_(paranormal)/ttcCLh3A">Magic</a> and <a href="/facts/Faerie/ocDWqCFQ">Faeries</a> are real. Includes poster map.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> <i>The Galactos Barrier</i> Space opera a la <i><a href="/facts/Star_Wars/9Y5j3IPP">Star Wars</a></i> (except that instead of "<a href="/facts/The_Force/Sgm5LjcW">the Force</a>" it is called music).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> <i>Kromosome</i> <a href="/facts/Biopunk/QTeMRXAD">Biopunk</a> using both traditional <a href="/facts/Cyberware/I4LlK5po">cyberware</a> and genetic materials from animals.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> <i><a href="/facts/Magitech_(Amazing_Engine)/TAg9YssM">Magitech</a></i> <i>Dungeons & Dragons</i> meets <a href="/facts/Earth/HLLmDfj0">Earth</a>. <a href="/facts/Fantasy/gkujmhJg">Fantasy</a> mixed with the <a href="/facts/Modern_era/uB3yXt4H">contemporary</a> world. Basically, how the world would be different if magic were real and <a href="/facts/Elves/7GB9V6qp">elves</a>, <a href="/facts/Dwarf_(Dungeons_%2526_Dragons)/tCNnbKXP">dwarves</a>, etc. were around.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> <i>Metamorphosis Alpha to Omega</i> Post-apocalyptic science fiction with high technology and mutants - based on <a href="/facts/Metamorphosis_Alpha/epSAmX5D">Metamorphosis Alpha</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> <i>Once and Future King</i> <a href="/facts/King_Arthur/JDyRQ8gx">King Arthur</a> lives in 4485 AD. <a href="/facts/Space_flight/zPrnATzo">Space flight</a>, combat <a href="/facts/Armor/jTpqE3du">armor</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> <i>Tabloid!</i> A spoof comedy world where you are reporters for a sensationalist newspaper like the ones referenced in the film 'Men In Black'. Also like the film, it's all true. The Loch Ness monster is an alien, Elvis is alive and well etc.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> <h2 id="reviews">Reviews</h2> <ul><li><i><a href="/facts/Casus_Belli_(magazine)/W6RwDrDE">Casus Belli</a></i> #76 (in French)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Cook, David (1993), Amazing Engine System Guide, Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, ISBN 1-56076-590-9 <a href="1-56076-590-9" target="_blank">1-56076-590-9</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7. <a href="978-1-907702-58-7" target="_blank">978-1-907702-58-7</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7. <a href="978-1-907702-58-7" target="_blank">978-1-907702-58-7</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7. <a href="978-1-907702-58-7" target="_blank">978-1-907702-58-7</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7. <a href="978-1-907702-58-7" target="_blank">978-1-907702-58-7</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Smith, Lester (1993), Bughunters, T S R, Incorporated, ISBN 1-56076-623-9 <a href="1-56076-623-9" target="_blank">1-56076-623-9</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>David Cook, Carl Sargent, Karen Boomgarden, For Faerie, Queen, & Country, 1993, ISBN 1-56076-591-7 <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>McComb, Colin (1993), The Galactos Barrier, Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, Inc., ISBN 1-56076-690-5 <a href="1-56076-690-5" target="_blank">1-56076-690-5</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Baur, Wolfgang (1994), Kromosome, Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, ISBN 1-56076-881-9 <a href="1-56076-881-9" target="_blank">1-56076-881-9</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Beach, Tim (1993), Magitech, T S R, Incorporated, ISBN 1-56076-661-1 <a href="1-56076-661-1" target="_blank">1-56076-661-1</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Henson, Slade (1994), Metamorphosis Alpha to Omega, T S R, Incorporated, ISBN 1-56076-851-7 <a href="1-56076-851-7" target="_blank">1-56076-851-7</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Barker, Jack (1994), Once and Future King, Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, Inc., ISBN 1-56076-823-1 <a href="1-56076-823-1" target="_blank">1-56076-823-1</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Cook, David (1994), Tabloid!, Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, ISBN 1-56076-912-2 <a href="1-56076-912-2" target="_blank">1-56076-912-2</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>"Casus Belli #076". 1993. <a href="https://archive.org/details/casus-belli-076/page/n19/mode/2up" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/casus-belli-076/page/n19/mode/2up</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>