Gamma World is a science fantasy role-playing game, originally designed by James M. Ward and Gary Jaquet, and first published by TSR in 1978.

The war that destroyed civilization in Gamma World is only vaguely described in most editions of the game, and what details are provided change from version to version.

In many editions of the game technology is at best quasi-medieval ( in the first edition, the crossbow is described as " the ultimate weapon " for most Gamma World societies ).

Some, such as the 2010 edition, feature advanced, but rare, technology that is risky to use due to the average Gamma World character not knowing how to properly operate such devices.

The post-apocalyptic inhabitants of Earth now refer to their planet as " Gamma World " ( or " Gamma Terra " in later editions ).

Gamma World is a chaotic, dangerous environment that little resembles pre-apocalyptic Earth.

( Random tables of such improbable mutations are a hallmark of every edition of Gamma World.

Gamma World player characters include unmutated humans ( referred to as " Pure Strain Humans " in most editions ), mutated humans, sentient animals or plants, and androids.

A recurrent source of conflict on Gamma World is the rivalry among the " Cryptic Alliances ", semi-secret societies whose ideological agendas — usually verging on monomania — often bring them into conflict with the rest of the Gamma World.

Throughout the game's many editions, Gamma World has almost always remained strongly influenced by Dungeons & Dragons and other role-playing games of the time.

Four of those abilities ( Charisma, Constitution, Dexterity and Intelligence ) have the same name and functions in both games, and the Physical Strength and Mental Strength attributes in Gamma World closely parallel Strength and Wisdom in D & D.

All versions of Gamma World eschew a realistic portrayal of genetic mutation, instead giving characters fantastic abilities ( often resembling comic book superpowers ) such as electrical generation, infravision, quills, sonic attacks, multiple limbs, dual brains, total body carapaces, precognition, planar travel, weather manipulation, telepathy, and " life leeching ".

Characters in all versions of Gamma World earn experience points during their adventures, which cause the character's Rank ( in some editions, Level ) to increase.

Unlike D & D, however, the first two editions of Gamma World do not use a concept of character class, and increases in Rank do not affect the character's skills or combat abilities.

The game mechanics used for resolving character actions, on the other hand, greatly varied between Gamma World editions.

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Gamma World < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s fourth edition abandoned the Action Control Table in favor of mechanics derived from the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition rules, although some mechanics presage Alternity and the 3rd edition D & D rules.

The fifth and sixth versions of Gamma World take the game's tendency of mimicking other games to its logical end, adopting the rules systems of other games wholesale: The fifth edition of the game uses the Alternity rules, while the sixth edition uses the d20 Modern rules.

Both of those systems, not coincidentally, use game mechanics inspired by D & D, giving Gamma World characters six ability scores, and measuring character development through increases in character class level.

Despite these differences, it is possible to use characters and monsters from a D & D game in Gamma World and vice versa.

The Gamma and Delta stages are where the Hive organism takes total control over the host which becomes nothing more than a shell for the invading organism.

After the player discovers that most of Gamma Team has been ' absorbed ' by Nexus, it takes control of the remaining NASDA satellites and attempts to destroy the player.

It would turn out that Martok, Dr. Julian Bashir and others have been held captive at a prison camp in the Gamma Quadrant while shapeshifters took their place in the Alpha Quadrant.

As a part of their pledge ( although the frat leader who is dating Cynthia has no intentions of letting them join ), they must steal a cadaver from the university medical center and place it on the steps of the Phi Omega Gamma house.

The Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation was created in 1962 ensuring that the Fraternity's mission would live on into Alpha Gamma Delta's second century, allowing women of all ages to make positive differences on their campus and in their communities-leaving a legacy for generations of women to follow.

It took more than a day of " star-hopping " to find Canopus, as the sensor locked on to other stars instead: a stray light pattern from the near Earth, Alderamin, Regulus, Naos, and Gamma Velorum were acquired before Canopus.

Former members have gone on to found numerous bands, including Gamma Ray, Iron Savior, Masterplan and Unisonic. The band has sold more than 5 millions copies worldwide.

Though the vessels are mostly used for conventional trade ( legal and illegal ) around the Alpha and Gamma quadrants, some of the more powerful companies in the Ferengi Alliance use them to attack colonies or other ships, stealing technology or supplies which they can resell.

There are two double stars within the constellation which can be observed using a small telescope, Gamma Volantis and Epsilon Volantis, along with two galaxies which may be more difficult to see clearly, NGC 2442 and NGC 2434.

During this mission the crew aboard the Shuttle Atlantis deployed the Gamma Ray Observatory ( GRO ) for the purpose of exploring gamma ray sources throughout the universe, and conducted the first scheduled space walk in more than five and one-half years.

The two operational M-Geräte formed the Kurze Marine Kanone Batterie ( KMK ) No. 3 ; the 42 cm contingent contained four additional Gamma Geräte organized in two batteries, and one more Gamma became operational two weeks into the war as " half-battery ".

The announcer says before each fight " Heaven or Hell ", which could be a reference to the Black Sabbath album Heaven and Hell, or ( more likely ) to the songs by Gamma Ray and Circus of Power.

Alpha Sigma Phi expanded again in 1965 by five more chapters when it merged with Alpha Gamma Upsilon.

It had been banned by the Soviet linguistic reform of 1933 as being " non-Ukrainian " ( possibly because the Ukrainian letter followed more closely the model of the Gamma letter of the Greek Alphabet, by not adopting the very distinctive letterform of the Russian letter " Ghe " used in cursive and italic styles ).

: John Elwood Shepherd, referred to more commonly as Elwood, is a 13-year-old pickpocket who joins up with powder hunters Gamma and Smith in an effort to resurrect his dead sister Sheryl Ann Shepherd.

:- no more existing: Gamma 3 Padova won 2 times the championship and 1 the Coppa Italia.

It extends from the Alpha Sector to the Delta Sector, but only Alpha, Beta and Gamma ( more specifically, the area covered by the Federation and Empire map sections ) have been extensively explored by the major powers of the region.

* The planet Gamma Canaris N has been made more realistic looking.

* The planet Gamma Hydra IV has been made more realistic looking and given a barren appearance.

Gamma Knife radiosurgery is able to accurately focus many beams of high-intensity gamma radiation to converge on one or more tumors.

In the Sonic Adventure, there are five birds of the Flicky species, they are of a different variety than the other small animals collected for use in the Chao Gardens, although two are found inside robots in E-102 Gamma's story line ( one inside Gamma itself and one inside of E-101 MKII ) and one follows Amy Rose in her story line, and two more come to meet her rescued Flicky.

Gamma Phi Beta currently has 180, 000 initiated members, 174 chartered collegiate chapters and more than 175 alumnae groups across the United States and Canada.

Gamma Pegasi has a total luminosity of 5, 840 times that of the Sun, which is being radiated from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of more than 21, 000 K. At this temperature, the star glows with a blue-white hue.

Following Tropical Storm Gamma in Honduras, JTF-Bravo deployed nine helicopters and more than 40 personnel to assist with relief efforts.

Dr. Brown subsequently learned of the existence of another honor society in economics, Omicron Delta Gamma, founded in 1915 by John R. Commons, University of Wisconsin and Frank Taussig, Harvard University, which, while older and formally larger ( more chapters ) than Omicron Chi Epsilon, was less active than the younger OCE.

Though the Beta and Gamma chapters failed to survive more than a few years, the Delta chapter became the fraternity's oldest continuously active chapter ( Alpha was closed in 1874 but later re-established ) and contributed a great deal to the organization of the fraternity in its early years.

Some time later, the United States learns that a GLA general codenamed " Dr. Thrax " has been developing a more lethal variety of anthrax known as " Anthrax Gamma ".