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Space: 1889

Space: 1889 is a tabletop role-playing game of Victorian-era space-faring, created by Frank Chadwick and originally published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) from 1989 to 1990. It was the first roleplaying game to feature space colonization using steam technology in the style of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Arthur Conan Doyle in what would later be…

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Designers
Frank Chadwick
Genres
Steampunk · Victorian era · science fantasy
Publication
1988, 2001, 2014
Publishers
Game Designers' Workshop · Heliograph, Inc. · Clockwork Publishing · Ulisses North America
Systems
GDW Task system, Ubiquity

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Space: 1889

Nodes106
Edges105
Triples179
Avg. degree1.98
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Space: 1889

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related to Uhrwerk Verlag/Clockwork Publishing (2012–2018) · 68
Space: 1889 → An English, Angahiaa, August, Canals Priests, Center, Challenge Magazine, Chronicle City, City, Clockwork Publishing, Dampf, Das Erbe, Der, Earth, Ether, Ether Express, Fallen Down, GDW, GDW's Magazine Challenge, German, Gods
related to GDW (1989–1990) · 57
Space: 1889 → Adventure, An, Atlantis, Beastmen, Blaine Pardoe, Boxed, Brown, Campaign, Canal Priests, Caravans, Challenge, Cloud Captains, Cloudships, Conklin's Atlas, Earth, Earth's, Ed Andrews, Ether, Ether Flyers, Five
related to eBooks · 21
Space: 1889 → Andy Frankham-Allen, August, Beyond, Called Space, Conspiracy, Deceit Book, Earth, Ether, February, Frank Chadwick's, Horizons, In, July, Only, Silence, Space, Tales, The, The Forever Engine, Untreed Reads
related to history · 12
Space: 1889 → Along, Ares Magazine, Chadwick, Feedback, GDW, Heliograph, Inc, On, Paragon, RPG, Space, The
related to Reception · 8
Space: 1889 → All, But, Games International, Not, Paul Mason, Smith, Space, Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer No
Publishers · 4
Space: 1889 → Clockwork Publishing, Game Designers' Workshop, Heliograph, Inc., Ulisses North America
Genres · 3
Space: 1889 → science fantasy, Steampunk, Victorian era
Designers · 1
Space: 1889 → Frank Chadwick
ISBN · 1
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Publication · 1
Space: 1889 → 1988, 2001, 2014

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mars 1889 space game 1989 published frank chadwick setting publishing rules pages venus clockwork gdw first miniatures released heliograph ubiquity

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Space: 1889DesignersFrank Chadwick1.00infobox
Space: 1889GenresSteampunk1.00infobox
Space: 1889GenresVictorian era1.00infobox
Space: 1889Genresscience fantasy1.00infobox
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Space: 1889Publication1988, 2001, 20141.00infobox
Space: 1889PublishersGame Designers' Workshop1.00infobox
Space: 1889PublishersHeliograph, Inc.1.00infobox
Space: 1889PublishersClockwork Publishing1.00infobox
Space: 1889PublishersUlisses North America1.00infobox
Space: 1889SystemsGDW Task system, Ubiquity1.00infobox
Space: 1889is atabletop role-playing game of Victorian-era space-faring0.90text

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