Gamma World Bibliography

[Burrito Boy]

Being a Gamma World junkie, I've compiled a list of all the Gamma World books and articles I could find as a first step toward converting all things Gamma to Hero. I started with Wikipedia then went through my collection of Dragon magazines and ended with a few indexes on the internet. None of my sources were complete so I'm missing a few authors and probably more than a few articles. (If you can fill in some of the blanks, let me know. I'd appreciate the help.) At any rate here it is, some of it behind spoilers to save space, for anyone who's interested.



Metamorphosis Alpha
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Metamorphosis Alpha by James M. Ward
Metamorphosis Alpha to Omega by Slade Henson
Metamorphosis Alpha: 25th Anniversary Edition James M. Ward
Metamorphosis Alpha 4th Edition by Jim Ward and Craig Brain

http://www.metamorphosisalpha.net/index.html
http://www.metamorphosisalpha.com/

MA articles in Dragon http://www.metamorphosisalpha.com/dragon_idx.html
#4 Notes on the Androids on the Starship Warden by James M. Ward
#5 Some Ideas Missed in Metamorphosis Alpha by James M. Ward
#5 Tribal Society and Hierarchy On Board the Starship Warden by James M. Ward
#5 How Green Was My Mutant (The Appearance of Humanoids in Metamorphosis Alpha) by Gary Gygax
#6 Further Rules, Modifications, and Clarifications for Metamorphosis Alpha by James M. Ward
#6 An Alternate Beginning Sequence for Metamorphosis Alpha by Guy W. McLimore Jr.
#8 Still More Additions to MA by James M. Ward
#13 The Bionic Supplement by Brian Blume
#14 Robots as Players in Metamorphosis Alpha by Barton Stano & James M. Ward
#14 The Total Person in Metamorphosis Alpha by James M. Ward
#16 Metamorphosis Alpha Modifications by A. Mark Ratner
#17 Faceless Men and Clockwork Monsters (A Dungeon & Dragon Adventure Aboard the Starship Warden) by Gary Gygax
#18 Guidelines for Mixing Campaigns (Androids, Wizards, Several Mutants, and Liberal Doses of Imagination, Well Blended) by James M. Ward
#19 Footsteps in the Sky by James M. Ward [short story]
#21 The Adventures of Monty Haul (Monty Strikes Back) by James M. Ward
#23 Water Adventure on the Starship Warden by Carl Hursh

(All these article can be found on metamorphosisalpha.com. Some of them in much better looking pdf form are on metamorphasisalpha.net)

MA articles in White Dwarf http://www.metamorphosisalpha.com/whitedwarf_idx.html
#1 Metamorphosis Alpha (Suggestions for the New SF role-playing game) by Ian Livingstone
#5 Food and Water on the Starship Warden by Richard Edwards
#16 Paths of the Lil by James M. Ward

Other Articles
The Dungeoneer #7 Notes on Metamorphosis Alpha by the Designer by James M. Ward http://www.metamorphosisalpha.net/No...y_Designer.pdf
The Space Gamer #42 Metamorphosis Alpha Notebook by W.G. Armintrout
http://www.metamorphosisalpha.net/MA_Notebook.pdf

Gamma World

First Edition (1978)
Gamma World (boxed set) by James M. Ward and Gary Jaquet
GW1 Legion of Gold by Gary Gygax, Luke Gygax, and Paul Reiche III
GW2 Famine in Far-Go by Michael Price
Gamma World Referee's Screen

Second Edition (1983)
Gamma World (boxed set) by Ward, Jaquet, and David James Ritchie
GW3 The Cleansing War of Garik Blackhand by Michael Price & Garry Spiegle
GW4 The Mind Masters by Phil Taterczynski
GWAC1 Gamma World Referee's Screen and Mini Module
GWAC2 Gamma World Character Sheets

Third Edition (1985)
Gamma World (boxed set) by James M. Ward
Gamma World Rules Supplement
GW6 Alpha Factor by Kim Eastland
GW7 Beta Principle by Bruce Nesmith
GW8 Gamma Base by Kim Eastland
GW9 Delta Fragment by Kim Eastland
GW10 Epsilon Cyborgs by Kim Eastland

Fourth Edition (1992)
Gamma World (softcover book) by Bruce Nesmith and James M. Ward
GWA1 Treasures of the Ancients by Dale "Slade" Henson
GWA2 The Overlord of Bonparr by Jack A. Barker
GWQ1 Mutant Master by Bruce Nesmith
GWQ2 All Animals Are Equal by Dale "Slade" Henson
GWQ3 Home Before the Sky Falls by Tim Beach, Paul Riegel, Drew Bittner, and Kim Eastland

Fifth edition (2000)
Alternity Gamma World Campaign Setting (softcover book) by Andy Collins and Jeff Grub

Omega World (2002)
Omega World a d20 System mini-game based on Gamma World by Jonathan Tweet was published in Dungeon 94/Polyhedron 153

Sixth Edition (2003)
Gamma World Player's Handbook by Bruce Baugh, Ian Eller, Mikko Rautalahti, and Geoff Skellams
Gamma World Game Master's Guide by Bruce Baugh, Werner Hagen, Lizard, and Doug Oglesby
Gamma World Mutants and Machines by David Bolack, Gareth Hanrahan, Patrick O'Duffy, and Chuck Wendig
Gamma World Beyond the Horizon by Ellen Kiley
Gamma World Cryptic Alliances and Unknown Enemies by Owen K. C. Stephens, Alejandro Melchor, and Geoff Skellams
Gamma World Out of the Vaults by James Maliszewski, John R. Snead, and Ellen P. Kiley
Midnight in the Mystery Garden by Rick Jones (pdf)
http://www.swordsorcery.com/gammawor...adventure.html

Dragon Articles
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#8 Introduction to Gamma World by Anonymous
#18 Gamma World First Report: Setting Up the Campaign by James Ward and Gary Jaquet
#19 More Excerpts from the Journals of Hald Sevrin by Gary Jaquet
#19 Gamma World: A New List of Treasures to be Found by Gary Gygax
#25 Gamma World Artifact Use Chart by Gary Jacquet
#25 Judging And You! by James M. Ward
#25 A Part Of Gamma World Revisited by James Ward
#52 Cavern of the Sub-Train by Gary Jaquet
#75 Mutants, Men (?), and Machines by Roger E. Moore
#85 Gamma Hazards: New mutants for the Gamma World Game by John M. Maxstadt
#86 A World Gone Mad: The Moon of the Gamma World Game by James M. Ward
#86 Starquestions by James M. Ward
#87 A Field Guide To Lunar Mutants by James M. Ward
#88 Before the Dark Years: The Timeline of the Gamma World Universe by James M. Ward and Roger E. Moore
#89 Of Grizzly Bears and Chimpanzees: Mutant animal characters in the Gamma World game by John M. Maxstadt
#90 StarQuestions by Penny Petticord
#91 Don't leave home without 'em!: New equipment for Gamma World gaming by Scott Hutcheon
#92 The Six-Million Dollar Mutant: Cyborgs in the Gamma World game by Bruce Humphrey
#93 New Brotherhoods: Minor Cryptic Alliances in Gamma World gaming by Peter C. Zelinski
#95 StarQuestions by Penny Petticord
#96 Why is the Mutant Smiling?: New body parts in Gamma World gaming by John M. Maxstadt
#97 New Tools of the Trade: More artifacts for Gamma World adventuring by Peter Giannacopoulos
#98 Mutant Manual: An ARES Section Special by Various
#99 Ares Log by Roger E. Moore
#99 Danger on a Budget: The unexpected and the unknown in Gamma World adventuring by Bruce Humphrey
#101 Empire of the Sun by Roger E. Moore
#101 Out of the Sun...The Man-Machines of Gamma World gaming by James M. Ward and Roger Raupp
#102 Sticks & Stones & Death Machines by John M. Maxstadt
#103 StarQuestions by Penny Petticord
#104 The Exterminator: A special Gamma World encounter by John Mau and Brian Shuler
#105 Gamma III: Campaign conversions for the third-edition Gamma World game by James M. Ward and Harold Johnson
#105 Rites of Passage: Initiations for the Gamma World Cryptic Alliances by Danny Kretzer
#106 The New Humans: Pure Strain Humans in the Gamma World Game by David Wainwright
#107 Mutant Fever by John M. Maxstadt [Gamma World disease]
#108 More Mutant Fever by John M. Maxstadt
#108 Mutant Manual II by Various
#109 A Change of Diet: A new mutational defect for Gamma World gaming by Tom Adams
#110 Knowledge is Power!: A skills system for Gamma World characters by John M. Maxstadt
#113 Cold Steel by Scott A. Hutcheon [robots: Hunter class]
#119 Politics Amid the Rubble: More Minor Cryptic Alliances for Gamma World games by Douglas Lent
#120 Born in the Ruins: Social class and Gamma World game characters by Dan Salas
#126 The Dragon's Bestiary by John M. Maxstadt [mutants]
#128 A Mutant By Any Other Name: A Gamma World game lexicon for mutant adventurers by Kim Eastland
#130 The Dragon's Bestiary by John M. Maxstadt [plants]
#131 Mutations Unlimited: New powers for the third-edition Gamma World game by Kim Eastland
#132 Cash & Carry, Gamma Style: Economic wheels still turn in Gamma World games by Dan Kretzer
#134 Catching Some Rays: Radiation damage and the Gamma World game by Daniel Salas
#136 Gamma Life in the Big City: Cities and societies in the Gamma World game by Dan Kretzer
#137 Up and Running in the Land of Mutants: Uprating your Gamma World game characters by Kim Eastland
#142 This Means War! by Dan Kretzer [mass combat]
#146 Dangerous Terrain by Dan Salas
#149 Advice For All Mutants by Skip Williams
#183 Magic & Technology Meet At Last! by Bruce Nesmith
#194 Gamma Terra Revisited by Kim Eastland
#203 More Gamma Goodies: New Equipment for the Gamma World game by Kim Eastland
#209 You Wanna Be a What? by Kerry Jordan [animal stocks]
#272 Gamma Squirrels & Mutant Moose: Mutant Animals for the Gamma World game by Andy Collins [Alternity]

Polyhedron Articles
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#6 The Weapons of the Ancients by James M. Ward
#8 Introduction to: Gamma World by ?
#14 The Lone Wolf by James M. Ward
#15 Mas Day In New Hope by James M. Ward [scenario]
#16 Followers of the Voice by James M. Ward [cryptic alliance]
#17 Knights of Genetic Purity by James M. Ward [cryptic alliance]
#18 The Iron Society by James M. Ward [ cryptic alliance]
#26 Gamma Mars by Roger E. Moore
#27 Gamma Mars: The Attack by James M. Ward
#29 Gods of the Gamma World Game by James M. Ward
#30 New and Old by James M. Ward [Intro to 3rd Edition Gamma World]
#44 The Companions by Kim Eastland [Gamma World New Rouges Gallery]
#47 The Mutant's Armory Part 1: Hand-Held Weapons by Kim Eastland
#48 The Mutant's Armory Part 2: Grenades and Explosives by Kim Eastland
#49 The Mutant's Armory Part 3: Armor by Kim Eastland (Gamma World)
#49 Mutant Materials by ? [Gamma World minerals]
#53 American Steel by ? (The Dreadbot in Gamma World)
#57 Mutations by ?
#58 Katrina and Falbis by ? [Gamma World New Rouges Gallery]
#64 The Gamma World Game Lives by ? [Fourth Edition]
#69 Gamma World Game Loot by Bruce Nesmith
#78 The Third Degree by ? [Review of Gamma World 4th Edition]
#79 Evansburg by John Reynolds and Lesia Head [Gamma World module]
#79 Perilous Plants by ?
#101 War Machines by Slade

Other Articles

Different Worlds #5 To Be or Not To Be a Pure Strain Human, That is the Question! by James M. Ward
Different Worlds #7 Better Game Mastering: Power Groups and Player Characters in RPGs by James M. Ward
Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer #88 Plague on Umbil River by Robert Egan

Board Games

Gamma Knights (boxed set) by Dale "Slade" Henson
Gammarauders: Game of Creatures and Chaos (boxed set) by Allen Varney
Revenge of the Factoids (Gammarauders Expansion Set No. 1) (hardcover) by Douglas Niles

Comics
Gammarauders (DC Comics) #s 1-10 by Peter B. Gillis

Endless Quest Books
Light on Quests Mountain by Mary L. Kirchoff and James M. Ward
Mystery of the Ancients by Morris Simon
American Knights by Nick Pollotta
The 24-Hour War by Nick Pollotta

Fan Projects
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GW5 Rapture of the Deep [From Wikipedia: TSR started production on a third adventure module, which was to be assigned the identification code GW5. This module was not published. However, in 2007 a very professional fan produced work of GW5 was published on the internet. It was based around the only information available for the never released TSR module - that of the working title "Rapture of the Deep".]
GW11 Omega Project [From Wikipedia: TSR dropped the 3rd edition of Gamma World from its product line before the multi-module storyline could be completed. A clever fan of the game published an acclaimed conclusion to the module series (by closely following Kim Eastland's original storyline) under the title "GW11 Omega Project" in 2003.]
Both of these modules can be found at: http://www.waynesbooks.com/GammaWorldDownloads.html

The Apocalyptic Post: An Unofficial Gamma World Online Bi-Monthly
A fanzine full of mutants, mutations, artifacts, and adventures that apparently lasted only five issues. You can find issues 1, 2, 4, and 5 on scribd. Here's a link to the first one to get you started:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13037330/T...icPost-issue-1

[Nolgroth]

Impressive. Have some rep.

[Lord Liaden]

Would you be interested in viewing some previous HERO fan conversions from Gamma World? There's quite a bit available on the web.

[Burrito Boy]

I'm interested in anything Gamma World.

I know QuestionMan has posted a few links to Gamma World conversions but I haven't checked them out yet. If you know of any others, please post them here so I can go look.

Now that I think about it, I should add a section for general Gamma World websites to this thread.

[Lord Liaden]

All right, BB, here's everything that I'm aware of.

The following five links are to a complete world sourcebook (using 4E HERO).

Introduction and Conversion Guidelines:
http://www.geocities.com/heartland/p...40/player.html

Weapons and Armor:
http://www.geocities.com/heartland/p...0/weaparm.html

Setting Details:
http://www.geocities.com/heartland/p...0/settout.html

Combat and Adventuring:
http://www.geocities.com/heartland/p...0/gmguide.html

Bestiary:
http://www.geocities.com/heartland/p.../whbeasts.html

The bottom of this page has links to NPCs, adventures and adventure seeds for GW:
http://www.geocities.com/heartland/park/3440/rpgs.html

Website with 5E HERO writeups for a number of Gamma World setting elements, and direct conversions of character stats and basic concepts from several editions of GW:
http://www.hierax.com/hero/star/gamma/
[I recommend navigating from the links on the menu to the left of the homepage.]

This website has illustrated character sheets for several GW creatures (in 4E HERO), notes on running Cryptic Alliances, and several detailed hex-grid maps of "Meriga":
http://www.tigerseyemedia.com/tiger/gamhero.html

This website has 5E Package Deals for races and creatures from GAMMA WORLD, among several other games:
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/math....html#packages
[center column, "Racial Packages"]

(NOTE: The links on the webpage above are sometimes cranky and may take you to the author's homepage instead. Just go Back and try the link again.)

[Burrito Boy]

Amazing! Thanks Lord Liaden.



You must spread rep...

[Burrito Boy]

I've updated the list, filling in the missing names and adding Board Games, Comics, and Endless Quest Books. Watch for the list of GW websites - to add to the ones posted by Lord Liaden - coming soon.

[Narf the Mouse]

Burrito Boy hired me to figure out how to get more posts.

Post and I won't have to bump the thread!

(Kidding, kidding...Actually, I offered to help with a dead thread, but I know nothing about Gamma World, so...)

[Killer Shrike]

I'm certainly interested in seeing Gamma World to HERO conversions. I don't have anything material to contribute however. Start posting stuff and I'll skim it, offering any relevant suggestions.

[Burrito Boy]

I'm going to start with 1st Edition Gamma World and post it in the other genres section when I have something to show for myself. A lot of it is easy because some mutations are just talents and basic powers in Hero. The rest are going to be a challenge since I'm new so I appreciate your offer to look things over.

P.S. Thanks for the help, Narf.

[CorPse]

I also know of a couple of professional looking fan creations...

GW5 Rapture of the Deep
GW11 Omega Project

Ever seen them?

[director13]

Yikes. Two links to my campaign page in one sitting feels a bit like shameless self promotion, but I suppose I'll risk it...
http://www.goblinnet.org/director/gw/gw.html


("Gamma Wastelands" Dark Champions Setting)

[Burrito Boy]

I also know of a couple of professional looking fan creations...

GW5 Rapture of the Deep
GW11 Omega Project

Ever seen them?

They're on the list under Fan Projects. With links!

[Cybertooth]

Thanks for the links and stuff. I loved Gamma World back in the day (1978).
I think I've just "aged" myself.