Compared to the current Necromunda, Confrontation had a more complex system for resolving combat, particularly firing — portions of which were similar in style to Laserburn, a miniatures game which had influenced Warhammer 40, 000.

Necromunda, an off-shoot game set in the Warhammer 40, 000 universe, involves conflict between rival gangs on the hive world of Necromunda.

For those who play Warhammer 40K, Mordheim is often cited as the Necromunda equivalent for the Warhammer Fantasy Universe.

However, the warriors in Mordheim tend to have far more protections than those in Necromunda, therefore granting Mordheimers a much higher survival rate.

In Necromunda, players control rival gangs battling each other in the Underhive, a place of anarchy and violence in the depths below the Hive City.

Unlike Warhammer 40, 000, Necromunda also allows players to develop their gangs between battles, gaining experience, adding new members or equipment, according to a set of rules.

Rules-wise, the game draws heavily from the second edition of Warhammer 40, 000, and the ruleset is commonly considered to be better-suited for the type of skirmish games Necromunda encourages.

Necromunda also stands out from most other games by Games Workshop by having a more 3 dimensional table layout, with buildings generally having multiple floors, interconnecting walkways and bridges.

The terrain is constructed to simulate a hive city on the planet Necromunda, a dystopian futuristic city resembling a termite mound many miles high.

The Enforcers are the chief source of law enforcement in the underhive of Necromunda.

Necromunda was spun off from a previous attempt of Games Workshop to popularize a set of rules for low-key skirmish battles in a hive world setting.

It was set on the hive world of Necromunda but made no reference to houses and such, instead concentrating itself on the various types of gangs: clan warriors from the spires, brat ' poseurs ' from the upper levels which went ' down ' to experience the thrills of lowlife, undercity mutants, diseased scavengers from the toxic wastes and the Adeptus Arbites ever-ready to deal swift and summary " Judge Dredd "- like justice.

The game background also included some elements later re-used in Necromunda, such as the ' spook ' psychic drug, and some which were disregarded, such as the ' caryatids ', largely unexplained blue skinned cherubs which were presented as unique and integral to Necromundan life.

*-Official Games Workshop Necromunda Website.

* Deadlands 3000-A Retro style MMORPG set in a Post Apocalyptic wasteland, as close as you will get to Necromunda in a browser game.

The gameplay is similar to Necromunda, which also revolves around small gangs.

The most well known examples are ; Earth ( Mars ), Cadia, Armageddon, Macragge, Ryza, Stygies VII, Necromunda, Ophelia VII, Kar Duniash, Hydraphur and Bakka.

Set on the Hive World of Necromunda, The Redeemer chronicles the battles of a small band of Redemptionists, fanatical and homicidal cultists of the Emperor, led by their supreme leader and arch-maniac, Klovis the Redeemer, as they fight to stop the Caller, a deadly and extremely powerful Ratskin Shaman, who is leading a horde of Ratskins, Scalies, Plague Zombies and other Underhive Scum in a revolution against the nobles of the Spire.

After fighting him off, and discovering that the Bloodmare Stone ( An eye from one of the-if not the-last of the Giant Necromunda Spiders ) is the source of his great power, Klovis and his band set out deeper into the Underhive to purge the Caller.

Thank you for the illustrated editorial `` Confrontation ''.

I feel that N.C. hit the very core of our existence in the editorial `` Confrontation ''.

`` Confrontation '' should fortify us all, whether in Southeast Asia or the U.S..

The editorial `` Confrontation '' was certainly direct in its appeal to those of us living here in America.

N.C.'s editorial `` Confrontation '' is a stunning piece of writing.

Editor's note: Reprints of `` Confrontation '' will be included among the material to be distributed to members of the Peace Corps.

Farmer Power: The Continuing Confrontation between Subsistence Farmers and Development Bureaucrats by Tony Waters at Ethnography. com

* 1948 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: " Confrontation Day " between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.

A Tentative Description of Post-Formal Thinking: The Critical Confrontation with Cognitive Thinking.

Liberalism Against Populism: A Confrontation Between the Theory of Democracy and the Theory of Social Choice.

The presence of British and other Commonwealth troops were crucial to Malaysia's security during the Malayan Emergency ( 1948 – 1960 ) and the Indonesian Confrontation ( 1962 – 1966 ), which was sparked by Malaya's merger with the British colonies of Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo to form Malaysia in 1963.

What had been a three volume set in the 1990 Del Rey edition was re-released by Stone Bridge Press as one single volume of 476 pages ( with a vastly improved cover design ), titled Mobile Suit Gundam: Awakening, Escalation, Confrontation.

The Confrontation Clause relates to the common law rule preventing the admission of hearsay, that is to say, testimony by one witness as to the statements and observations of another person to prove that the statement or observation was accurate.

Nevertheless, in California v. Green,, the Supreme Court has held that the hearsay rule is not the same as the Confrontation Clause.

However, in Crawford v. Washington,, the Supreme Court increased the scope of the Confrontation Clause by ruling that " testimonial " out-of-court statements are inadmissible if the accused did not have the opportunity to cross-examine that accuser and that accuser is unavailable at trial.

In Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U. S. ___ ( 2009 ), and Bullcoming v. New Mexico, 564 U. S. ___ ( 2011 ), the Court ruled that admitting a lab chemist's analysis in to evidence, without having him testify, violated the Confrontation Clause.

If the " primary purpose " was for dealing with an " ongoing emergency ", then any such statement was not testimonial and so the Confrontation Clause would not require the person making that statement to testify in order for that statement to be admitted into evidence.

* Phage Press was the original publisher for the Amber RPG.

It has a strong focus on RPG related sites.

Although game reports and social reactions are common parts of many A & E contributions, it has also, over the years, become a testing ground for new ideas on the development of the RPG as a genre and an art form.

The idea that role-playing games are an art form took strong root in this zine, and left a lasting impression on many of the RPG professionals who contributed.

As a result of this, the main battle tank ( MBT ) conceived in the Cold War era can survive multiple RPG strikes with minimal effect on the crew or the operation of the vehicle.

* In the RPG Shadowrun, a number of hyperstructures such as the " Renraku Arcology " exist by 2050, most of which are mega-corporate controlled.

* In the RPG Trinity, a number of hyperstructures exist, with the largest being that of the New New York Arcology run by the Psi-Order Orgotek.

* In the Rifts RPG, the capital of the Coalition States is the city of Chi-Town.

* The tongue-in-cheek RPG Paranoia primarily takes place in the futuristic and mostly computer controlled arcology Alpha Complex.

* In WildFire's CthulhuTech RPG, humanity has been forced to live in fortified arcologies due to attacks from the Old Ones and the Migou.

* Arcologies appear in the Buck Rogers XXVC RPG, particularly on ravaged Earth where they have replaced many former metropolitan centers.

* Army of Darkness RPG from Eden Studios.

BRP was conceived of as a genre-generic engine around which any sort of RPG could be played, much like GURPS and the d20 system have become today.

Bunnies & Burrows ( B & B ) is a role-playing game ( RPG ) inspired by the novel Watership Down.

* 2003, GamingReport. com readers voted it as Number One Gothic / Horror RPG

For those grounded in the RPG tradition, the very first release of Call of Cthulhu created a brand new framework for table-top gaming.

Shadows of Yog-Sothoth is important not only because it represents the first published addition to the boxed first edition of Call of Cthulhu, but because its format defined a new way of approaching a campaign of linked RPG scenarios involving actual clues for the would-be detectives amongst the players to follow and link in order to uncover the dastardly plots afoot.

In April 2011, Chaosium and new developer Red Wasp Design announced a joint project to produce a mobile video game based on the Call of Cthulhu RPG entitled Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land.

Chaosium and Greg Stafford are also responsible for Pendragon, an Arthurian RPG now published by White Wolf, Inc .' s ArtHaus imprint after a spell with Green Knight Publishing.

Several notable RPG authors have written material for Chaosium, including Steve Perrin, Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis, Keith Herber, David Conyers, Ken St. Andre, and Arduin creator David A. Hargrave.

Dungeons & Dragons ( abbreviated as D & D or DnD ) is a fantasy role-playing game ( RPG ) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. ( TSR ).

Having partnered previously with Gygax on Don't Give Up the Ship !, Arneson introduced Gygax to his Blackmoor game and the two then collaborated on developing " The Fantasy Game ", the role-playing game ( RPG ) that became Dungeons & Dragons, with the final writing and preparation of the text being done by Gygax.

There are a total of 63 Japanese-only video games ranging from platformer games to RPG games, that began with the Emerson's Arcadia 2001 system.