Melee & Wizard

Melee and Wizard are part of the Fantasy Trip game system from Steve Jackson Games. For those that don’t know SJG, they started in the ’80s, made a lot of the games I grew up with, everything from Car Wars to Ogre to Awful Green Things From Outer Space to Dork Tower.

If you hung out in game shops in the ’80s, chances are you’ve played games from SJG.

And while I loved throwing Zgwartz at the awful green things for one die fragments, Melee, and to a lesser extent, Wizard, got the most play time.

Melee is a super simple arena combat system. Character creation takes minutes and the battles are fun and challenging whether you opt for the squishy, but mobile halfling slinger, or a brawnier, slower sort for hand-to-hand combat.

Wizard is both a stand alone game, and also an add-on Magic system that brings spells, summoned monsters and a whole lot of new ways to kill or be killed into the game. Both games are included in the Fantasy Trip set linked below.

Best of all, with both games, you’re ready to create your own roll playing adventures!

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