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White Bear And Red MoonWhite Bear and Red Moon (WBRM) is a boardgame set in the peculiar fantasy world of Glorantha, invented by Greg Stafford and published in 1975. Greg set up the successful Chaosium game publishing company purely to produce and market this game, although Chaosium eventually evolved into a successful company in its own right. It depicts the wars between the mighty Lunar Empire and their barbarian neighbours, led by Prince Argrath. The game is a board wargame and shares a number of similarities with other games of that genre, such as a hex map, a large number of cardstock unit counters, and a number of rules themes. Indeed, from the combat rules alone, one would be hard pressed to differentiate this game from, say a World War 2 based game. What makes White Bear and Red Moon really stand out are its "exotic" units, each one of which comes with a host of bizarre special rules specifically intended to subvert normal gameplay in some way. These are brilliantly realised and add a great deal of theme and flavour as well as some interesting tactical choices to the game. However, they burden an already complex game with further rules: White Bear and Red Moon has a very steep learning curve. White Bear and Red Moon was eventually republished under the name Dragon Pass. The main differences in the reprint are a few streamlined rules and a notable improvement in the quality of the components. In particular the paper map was replaced by a full-colour game board. Both editions are now out of print, and moderately valuable to a collector. External link
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