Product code: Top Secret The Espionage Roleplaying Board Game popular by TSR 1987
The original version of Top Secret was designed by Merle M. Rasmussen,[2] and allows players and gamemasters to build their own espionage story settings. The original boxed set of the game included a 64-page rule book and a sample adventure, "Operation: Sprechenhaltestelle". The TSR Product Code for the original boxed set is TSR-7006.[3] The game was developed over a period of two years by Rasmussen and TSR editor Allen Hammack.[2] As part of the playtesting for the game, a note written on TSR stationery about a fictitious assassination plot brought the FBI to the popular offices of TSR Hobbies.[1] The Top Secret game is based exclusively on 10-sided dice. All character attributes and other statistics are percentiles; some scores are rolled, and some are derived from combinations of two or more other scores. Top Secret also features Areas of Knowledge, which function similarly to skills in more modern RPGs. Characters gain experience points and progress upward in level. LOOK AT PICS PLEASE.
The original version of Top Secret was designed by Merle M. Rasmussen,[2] and allows players and gamemasters to build their own espionage story settings. The original boxed set of the game included a 64-page rule book and a sample adventure, "Operation: Sprechenhaltestelle". The TSR Product Code for the original boxed set is TSR-7006.[3] The game was developed over a period of two years by Rasmussen and TSR editor Allen Hammack.[2] As part of the playtesting for the game, a note written on TSR stationery about a fictitious assassination plot brought the FBI to the popular offices of TSR Hobbies.[1] The Top Secret game is based exclusively on 10-sided dice. All character attributes and other statistics are percentiles; some scores are rolled, and some are derived from combinations of two or more other scores. Top Secret also features Areas of Knowledge, which function similarly to skills in more modern RPGs. Characters gain experience points and progress upward in level. LOOK AT PICS PLEASE.