Challenge (magazine)

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Challenge was a roleplaying-game magazine published by Game Designers' Workshop between 1986 and 1996. It contained multiple adventures for West End Games' Star Wars D6 system. It is unclear whether those adventures were licensed by West End Games and Lucasfilm, and therefore their canonicity is ambiguous. However, some elements, such as the Kyrouac system,^[3] have been referenced in canon sources such as The Essential Atlas.

Development

Announced in Journal of the Travellers Aid Society (JTAS) No. 22, the new magazine was going to expand JTAS to a larger format and would expand coverage to Game Designers' Workshop's new game Twilight 2000 and other games. The larger size was to allow printing things like deck plans or sector maps, which would not fit in the smaller JTAS format.

To maintain continuity for Traveller fans (and JTAS subscribers), the first issue was numbered 25. Also to maintain continuity, Challenge featured a separate section labeled "Journal of the Travellers' Aid," which lasted through issue 28. Traveller articles continued to appear in Challenge, but issues were frequently dominated by articles of other gaming systems, including Twilight 2000, 2300AD, Space 1889, and—starting with the expansion to 64 pages in issue 30—games not published by Game Designers' Workshop.

Challenge ran for 53 issues (through number 77), until the 1996 closure of Game Designers' Workshop.

Media

Issues

Challenge 32 - Alone Against the Empire
Challenge 35 - Team Recovery and The H-Wing Strike Fighter
Challenge 37 - Wookiees Amok
Challenge 38 - Starfighters Down
Challenge 40 - Blaster Weapons of the Rebel Alliance
Challenge 41 - Paid in Full
Challenge 43 - On the Dark Side and The Nuns of G'aav'aar'oon
Challenge 44 - Jet Packs
Challenge 46 - Imperial Research Station 13
Challenge 47 - The Rebel Air Force: Combat Airspeeders
Challenge 49 - Dandrian's Ring (article)
Challenge 56 - Power Suits!
Challenge 57 - Green Squad 3 (article)
Challenge 58 - Battle for Mandalore
Challenge 60 - Character Templates
Challenge 61 - Rogue Metal
Challenge 62 - Encumbrance: An Optional Rules System
Challenge 63 - Talents: An Optional Rules System
Challenge 64 - Limping Lady (article)
Challenge 65 - Shadow of the Dark Side
Challenge 66 - Disturbance in the Force
Challenge 67 - Buried Treasure
Challenge 68 - Parts is Parts
Challenge 70 - Bantha Cannon
Challenge 72 - Ananuru Express
Challenge 73 - New Character Templates: A Supplement to Star Wars' Mos Eisley Galaxy Guide
Challenge 74 - HoloNet Waystation (article)
Challenge 76 - Death by Triflexia
Challenge 77 - Pandora's Box
Challenge 78 (Compiled but unpublished)

Articles referenced by official sources

Alone Against the Empire — Challenge 32 (see: Kyrouac system)
"Limping Lady" — Challenge 64 (see: Felin system)

Notes and references

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Challenge 25
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Challenge 77
↑ Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)

External links

Challenge (game magazine) on Wikipedia

In other languages

Deutsch

[C25-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Challenge 25

[C77-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Challenge 77

[EAOC-3] Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)

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