#Ares magazine

[oldschoolfrp]

Space merchants, or pirates, depending on what's in the cargo hold today (Tim Truman, from the game Star Trader included in Ares magazine #12, SPI, January 1982)

[70sscifiart]

Ares magazine #17

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[consimworld]

Here's a sneak peek at ARES issue #2 coming soon from One Small Step Games

[theactioneer]

Ad for Ares Magazine (1980)

[train2game-news]

Train2Game News GirlsGotGame Design contest

One Small Step Games and Ares Magazine are holding a GirlsGotGame Design Contest, a competition that focuses on game designs by women.

“Since we launched the contest last month, we’ve received a lot of support and encouragement from people in the industry,” says OSS Games owner Michael Anderson, who decided to increase the grand prize to $200 and extend the contest through the holidays and to…

[windsorblue17]

So, one of my regular freelance employers has a new project that's gone to Kickstarter...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1488075951/ares-magazine

Ares Magazine will be devoted to science fiction and feature a playable board game in every issue. Our goal is to do six issues a year, and the first issue will feature a game by game designer Bill Banks based on HG Wells' War of the Worlds. I'm really excited about this - please go check it out!

[oldschoolfrp]

Star Trader, the game of interstellar exploitation and piracy -- Tim Truman cover art for Ares 12, SPI, January 1982, which included the complete sci-fi board game designed by Nick Karp. David J Ritchie contributed the article "Adventures in Albion, Role-Playing in the Land of Faerie," exploring how to build an RPG campaign for DragonQuest in the setting of his board game Albion from the previous issue.

[70sscifiart]

Ares magazine, Jan 1981. Cover art by John H. Butterfield

[oldschoolfrp]

Jim Roslof's depiction of English knights going to war against the spacefaring Wersgorix, far from Earth of the 14th century, inspired by Poul Anderson's novel The High Crusade (Ares Magazine No. 16, featuring the board wargame The High Crusade by David Cook and the Poul Anderson short story "Quest," Winter 1983, by TSR/Dragon Publishing under the SPI name)

[oldschoolfrp]

It always was exciting when a new issue of Ares arrived, with a complete game inside -- rules, fold-out paper map, and die-cut cardboard counters exactly like in a boxed game. Issue 9 (July 1981) printed the DeltaVee space combat rules separately instead of bound in the center pages of the magazine, for the convenience of subscribers who would only need to buy the basic set of SPI's sci-fi RPG Universe to have all the regular components and no duplications. The split cover features John W Pierard's cover art for DeltaVee below the dragon Vermithrax Pejorative from the film Dragonslayer, which SPI adapted as a board game that same year.

[70sscifiart]

Ares magazine #14

[oldschoolfrp]

Starblazer 1 collecting cobwebs (uncredited, Ares No 1, SPI, March 1980)  The accompanying article, Dr John Boardman’s “No, You’re Not Going to the Stars,” reviews the history of interstellar travel in science fiction then explains with detailed tables and formulae why it can’t happen.  The rest of the issue is devoted to fiction, a complete game, and reviews of games, books, and films that mostly begin with the premise that it can.

[oldschoolfrp]

Ares No 1, with Howard Chaykin’s cover featuring the included board game WorldKiller, SPI, March 1980

[oldschoolfrp]

Nightmare House, Jeff Easley art for gothic horror boardgame in Ares 15, TSR/SPI, Fall 1983 (original B&W interior art, given a ghastly recolor on the cover of this issue)

[oldschoolfrp]

Ornamental iron gargoyles guard the doors in the Gothically overstated hotel lobby (Harry Quinn, Ares 15, TSR/SPI, Fall 1983)