History TabletopGame / AlbedoTheRolePlayingGame

''Albedo: The Role-Playing Game'' is a TabletopGame originally released in 1988 (first edition) and 1993 (second edition) as a RPG adaptation of Creator/SteveGallacci's ''ComicBook/AlbedoErmaFelnaEDF'' [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] comic and originally published in the own author's Thoughts & Images' self-publishing brand, with Paul Kidd (Scriptwriter of ''VideoGame/{{Nightshade}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' lead designer for the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super NES]]) writing the script and Gallacci himself doing the art used in the game.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The ''Platinum Catalyst'' re-release: Not only the writers changed the characterization of all the sides of the conflict from GrayAndGreyMorality to ALighterShadeOfGray for the EDF's advantage, they turned the ILR to almost AlwaysChaoticEvil levels, by turning their Nazi tendences UpToEleven to PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny levels and turning also Enchawah Corp. into a somewhat shadier MegaCorp. On the other hand, the EDF is portrayed into somewhat more positive light, despite its flaws are also mentioned. This is one of the reasons why Gallacci considers especially this version as LooseCanon at worst.

* AllDeathsAreFinal: Since the RPG games are more established on reality than other fantasy-based games, if you got killed in the games, you're dead for good and there's no way for bring any dead character to life, other than [[spoiler:cloning]].

->''"As they looked to the heavens, [[DrivingQuestion they wondered, just what kind of people where they]]?"''

''Albedo: The Role Playing Game'' is a TabletopGame originally released in 1988 (first edition) and 1993 (second edition) as a RPG adaptation of Steven A.Gallacci's ''ComicBook/AlbedoErmaFelnaEDF'' [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] comic and originally published in the own author's Thoughts & Images' self-publishing brand, with Paul Kidd (Scriptwriter of ''VideoGame/{{Nightshade}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' lead designer for the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super NES]]) writing the script and Gallacci himself doing the art used in the game.

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''Albedo: The Role Playing Game'' is a TabletopGame originally released in 1988 as a RPG adaptation of Steven A.Gallacci's ''ComicBook/AlbedoErmaFelnaEDF'' [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] comic and originally published in the own author's Thoughts & Images' self-publishing brand, with Paul Kidd (Scriptwriter of ''VideoGame/{{Nightshade}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' lead designer for the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super NES]]) writing the script and Gallacci himself doing the art used in the game.

'''NOTE''': This page is only for tropes from either the original RPG and its UpdatedRerelease, and not from the miniature-based RPG ''Albedo Combat Patrol 164''.

* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: Despite the [=RPGs=] being made for American audiences in mind, the core book uses UsefulNotes/AustralianEnglish[[note]]Technically, it uses British spellings of some words, like "civilisation".[[/note]] because the co-writter of the book was Paul Kidd, a native Australian.

*** The first Special Weapon is basically an UZI with a more futuristic look.
*** The third Special Weapon (the one who looks like a sniper rifle) looks like a mix between a Dragunov rifle with a Mosin-Nagant rifle.

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''Albedo: The Role Playing Game'' is a TableTopGame originally released in 1988 as a RPG adaptation of Steven A.Gallacci's ''ComicBook/AlbedoErmaFelnaEDF'' [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] comic and originally published in the own author's Thoughts & Images' self-publishing brand, with Paul Kidd (Scriptwriter of ''VideoGame/{{Nightshade}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' lead designer for the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super NES]]) writing the script and Gallacci himself doing the art used in the game.

The premise of the game is more or less simple: You're basically playing as a member of either the Extraplanetary Defense Force (EDF), the Independent Lepine Republic (ILR), or Enchawah Corporation and you have to deal with the different types of military, political and social problems that exist in the ''Albedo'' universe, often with the help of canon characters and sometimes on your own. Unlike other RPG games, you don't need to play a warrior character, as you can be a soldier, a scientist, a policeman or even a prostitute if you want to. The most important part of this game is how sociable you can be and how your ability to communicate with others, rather than your fighting skills, can help you get out of any mess you find yourself in.

'''NOTE''': This page is only for tropes from either the original RPG game and its UpdatedRerelease, and not from the miniature-based RPG game ''Albedo Combat Patrol 164''.

* AKA47: Most of the weapons used in the RPG games are mashup versions of many RealLife weapons, albeit unlike the realistic counterparts, they're only named by descriptive names rather than specific brands. Also, both sides has different weapon designs:

* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: Despite the RPG games were made for American audiences in mind, the core book uses UsefulNotes/AustralianEnglish[[note]]Technically, it uses British spellings of some words, like "civilisation".[[/note]] because the co-writter of the book was Paul Kidd, a native Australian.

* ''Albedo: Platinum Catalyst'': An UpdatedRerelease published in 2004, with updated rules and it's own modules. It was published by Sanguine Publications and written by Pieter van Hiel and designed by Jason Holmgren and Michael Arbogast. It expands the backstory of all the sides of the conflict (EDF, ILR and Enchawah) and also includes a complete timeline of the previously unexplained events up to the year SD 195, before the Battle of Derzon, the very first battle of the comic. The name ''Platinum Catalyst'' was given due to the MilestoneCelebration of the comic, who turned then twenty years in that time.

'''NOTE''': This page is only for tropes from either the original RPG game and its UpdatedRerelease, and not from the upcoming miniature-based RPG game ''Albedo Combat Patrol 164'', which will have its own page, assuming the game gets funded in Website/{{Kickstarter}}.

'''NOTE''': This page is only for tropes from either the original RPG game and its UpdatedRerelease, and not from the upcoming miniature-based RPG game ''Albedo Combat Patrol 164'', which will had its own page, assuming the game gets funded in Website/{{Kickstarter}}.

** ''The Drift'': Deals with a EDF ship drifting in space after being seriously damaged in a battle, while the crew tries to survive waiting to be rescued, but not before lots of internal strife happens inside the ship.
** ''Zho Chaka'': Deals with a revolution in a EDF's [[BananaRepublic banana planet of the same name]], while some members are trying to stop the revolution or participating on it.

** ''Structural Integrity'': More than a module it's also an addendum who updates the story up to [[spoiler:end of the first StoryArc after the ILR attack on Dornthant, being also the only module whose plot takes place during the second arc]]. It also explains in a very ''heavy-handed way'' what you ''cannot'' do in the ''Albedo'' universe, in the case you didn't already know.