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Martin</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Game_designer" class="mw-redirect" title="Game designer">Designers</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Joe F. Martin</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publishers</th><td class="infobox-data">Role Playing Games, Inc.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1982–1984</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data">Modern military</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Players</th><td class="infobox-data">4–10</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Chance</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dice_notation#Percentile_dice_(d%)" title="Dice notation">Percentile dice</a> (2d10)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Skills</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Military_strategy" title="Military strategy">Strategy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Military_tactics" title="Military tactics">Tactics</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Synonyms</th><td class="infobox-data">Recon RPG<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Recon</b></i> (appearing later as <i><b>RECON</b></i>) is a military <a href="/wiki/Role-playing_game" title="Role-playing game">role-playing game</a> where players assume the role of American soldiers during the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>. The first edition featured a wargame with role-playing elements, somewhat like <i><a href="/wiki/Behind_Enemy_Lines_(role_playing_game)" class="mw-redirect" title="Behind Enemy Lines (role playing game)">Behind Enemy Lines</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Twilight_2000" class="mw-redirect" title="Twilight 2000">Twilight 2000</a></i>, then gradually evolved into a full role-playing game. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Recon_(role-playing_game)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Recon</i> is a game set during American involvement in the Vietnam War, but can be moved to any modern war.<sup id="cite_ref-swan_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swan-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Character generation is relatively simple; each character only has three attributes (Strength, Agility, Alertness). The player chooses two military occupation specialties such as Demolitions or Heavy Weapons. These then determine secondary skills such as Forward Observer and Demolitions Disposal.<sup id="cite_ref-swan_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swan-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The rulebook includes weapons, recon teams, missions, recruiting and debriefing, and terrain generation.<sup id="cite_ref-swan_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swan-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The referee uses a Random Encounters table to generate terrain and villages, and to create groups of adversaries, obstacles to overcome, and problems to solve. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publication_history">Publication history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Recon_(role-playing_game)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Publication history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Original_Recon">Original <i>Recon</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Recon_(role-playing_game)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Original Recon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first edition of <i>Recon</i> was written by Joe F. Martin and published by RPG, Inc. in 1982 as a 44-page book covering rules for a miniatures wargame.<sup id="cite_ref-HW_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HW-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Role-playing rules were included in the 44-page digest-sized second edition released in 1983 with a <a href="/wiki/Gamemaster%27s_screen" title="Gamemaster's screen">gamemaster's screen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-HW_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HW-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This edition introduced the idea of easily created and disposable characters. </p><p>RPG, Inc. also released a number of supplements and adventures for the first and second editions: </p> <ul><li><i>San Succi</i> (1982) is a map pack that details a 16-block area in <a href="/wiki/1:72_scale" title="1:72 scale">1:72 scale</a> for use with 20mm or 25mm lead figures. It also contains a guide to the 40 buildings on the map, a <a href="/wiki/Non-player_character" title="Non-player character">non-player character</a> generating system, and a vehicular combat system called "Roadkill".</li> <li><i>The <a href="/wiki/Haiphong" title="Haiphong">Haiphong</a> <a href="/wiki/High-altitude_military_parachuting" title="High-altitude military parachuting">H.A.L.O.</a>: <a href="/wiki/Military_Assistance_Command,_Vietnam_%E2%80%93_Studies_and_Observations_Group" title="Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group">SOG</a> <a href="/wiki/Special_operations" title="Special operations">Operations</a> in <a href="/wiki/North_Vietnam" title="North Vietnam">North Vietnam</a></i> (1983) was the first adventure campaign, and involved missions behind enemy lines in North Vietnam. Expanded rules include <a href="/wiki/US_Army_Special_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="US Army Special Forces">Army Special Forces</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy_SEALs" title="United States Navy SEALs">Navy SEALs</a>, and <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps_Force_Reconnaissance" title="United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance">Marine Force Recon</a> commando characters, and detail real-world airborne, sea, and amphibious insertion techniques. Missions include reconnaissance, raiding, sabotage, assassination/ambush, prisoner snatching, and search and rescue.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hearts_and_Minds_(Vietnam_War)" title="Hearts and Minds (Vietnam War)">Hearts & Minds</a></i> (1983) was the second adventure campaign, and involves a Special Forces <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Special_Forces#Basic_Element_–_SF_Operational_Detachment-A_(SFODA)_composition" title="United States Army Special Forces">A-team</a> assigned to a cadre training mission in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. The team must train and equip a local Montagnard unit to be able to defend its community from raids by Viet Cong Main Force troops. Includes a random tunnel generation system.</li> <li><i>Mission Director's Screen</i> (1983) - a 3-panel <a href="/wiki/Gamemaster%27s_screen" title="Gamemaster's screen">gamemaster's screen</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Special_forces_of_Israel#Sayaret" title="Special forces of Israel">Sayaret</a>/<a href="/wiki/Tank_commander" class="mw-redirect" title="Tank commander">Track Commander</a></i> (1983) provides a setting during <a href="/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_conflict" title="Arab–Israeli conflict">Arab-Israeli Wars</a> (1967 to 1983). Players could generate Israeli soldier characters that could operate as a commando detachment or a tank crew. It allowed the Mission Director to run Israeli commando raids or tank battles. The additional rules could also conceivably be used to simulate other contemporary conflicts involving urban warfare or armored combat from World War Two to the present (1980s).</li></ul> <p>A final adventure campaign featuring mercenaries, <i>Headhunters Ltd.</i>, was advertised <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but was never released before RPG, Inc. went out of business. </p><p>The <i>Platoon 20</i> (P20 system) line of 20 mm (1:72 scale) metal miniatures were also produced by RPG, Inc. for use with the game. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Revised_RECON"><i>The Revised RECON</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Recon_(role-playing_game)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Revised RECON"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox"><caption class="infobox-title">The Revised RECON</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Revised_RECON_RPG_1986.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ed/Revised_RECON_RPG_1986.jpg/220px-Revised_RECON_RPG_1986.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="283" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Revised_RECON_RPG_1986.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="278" data-file-height="357" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Front cover of <i>The Revised RECON</i>,<br />illustrated by <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Siembieda" title="Kevin Siembieda">Kevin Siembieda</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Game_designer" class="mw-redirect" title="Game designer">Designers</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Erick_Wujcik" title="Erick Wujcik">Erick Wujcik</a>, Kevin Siembieda, Matthew Balent, Maryann Siembieda</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publishers</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Palladium_Books" title="Palladium Books">Palladium Books</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication</th><td class="infobox-data">June 1986<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1986-06</span>)</span> (1st edition)<br />April 1999<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1999-04</span>)</span> (Revised edition)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1986–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data">Modern military</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://palladiumbooks.com">palladiumbooks<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>After RPG, Inc. went out of business, <a href="/wiki/Palladium_Books" title="Palladium Books">Palladium Books</a> acquired the intellectual property and released <i>The Revised RECON</i>, designed by <a href="/wiki/Erick_Wujcik" title="Erick Wujcik">Erick Wujcik</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Siembieda" title="Kevin Siembieda">Kevin Siembieda</a>, Matthew Balent, and Maryann Siembieda in 1986 as a 152-page book.<sup id="cite_ref-HW_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HW-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The focus of the game was transformed from miniatures to a role-playing game.<sup id="cite_ref-designers_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-designers-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thanks to its origins as a miniatures game, <i>The Revised RECON</i> is the only game from Palladium, aside from <i><a href="/wiki/Valley_of_the_Pharaohs" class="mw-redirect" title="Valley of the Pharaohs">Valley of the Pharaohs</a></i> (1983), that does not use the company's house <a href="/wiki/Megaversal_system" title="Megaversal system">Megaversal system</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-designers_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-designers-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Palladium does provide conversion rules to bring play in line with the rest of their role-playing game series. </p><p>Whereas RPG Inc.'s version had only limited information regarding firearms, the Palladium edition has almost 40 pages of gun statistics as well as fully illustrated, detailed descriptions of aircraft, seacraft, and vehicles, rules for playing mercenaries, rules for small arms and heavy weapons, <a href="/wiki/Garrote" title="Garrote">garrote</a>, bayonet, knives, and hand-to-hand fighting.<sup id="cite_ref-swan_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swan-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This edition also includes several scenarios.<sup id="cite_ref-HW_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HW-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Advanced_RECON"><i>Advanced RECON</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Recon_(role-playing_game)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Advanced RECON"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Advanced RECON</i> was the only other book published for <i>The Revised RECON</i>, released February 1987.<sup id="cite_ref-designers_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-designers-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is an expansion of the rules allowing the creation of Special Operations characters and detailing a four-mission campaign set in 1960s Laos. There are also sections on American and North Vietnamese tactics and strategy, period electronic equipment, a primer on the game world in 1965, and briefings on the Kingdom of Laos and other military and government agencies. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Deluxe_Revised_RECON"><i>Deluxe Revised RECON</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Recon_(role-playing_game)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Deluxe Revised RECON"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Palladium published <i>Deluxe Revised RECON</i> in April 1999. This integrated and reprints the content from both <i>The Revised RECON</i> and <i>Advanced RECON</i> into one book. It also introduces new rules, focusing more on the characters' lives after the wars. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Recon_(role-playing_game)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Issue 70 of <i><a href="/wiki/Space_Gamer" class="mw-redirect" title="Space Gamer">Space Gamer</a></i>, Brian R. Train reviewed the original edition and commented "<i>Recon</i> is <i>the</i> game for the mercenary fan. It is a pleasure to play and a fine addition to the large inventory of roleplaying games." Train concluded with a positive recommendation, saying, "If you are at all interested in this historical period, <i>Recon</i> is well worth the money."<sup id="cite_ref-SG_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SG-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Robert Neville reviewed <i>The Revised RECON</i> for <i><a href="/wiki/White_Dwarf_(magazine)" title="White Dwarf (magazine)">White Dwarf</a></i> #83 (1986), and did not like the game, commenting, "Unluckily, some people may well realise that the sections on military hardware and equipment are probably the best in any contemporary roleplaying game. Luckily, I hope people have more sense than to touch this with a bargepole. Unluckily, I'm not so sure they have."<sup id="cite_ref-WD83_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WD83-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his 1990 book <i><a href="/wiki/The_Complete_Guide_to_Role-Playing_Games" title="The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games">The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games</a></i>, game critic <a href="/wiki/Rick_Swan" title="Rick Swan">Rick Swan</a> called the <i>Revised Recon</i> edition "a gem ... <i>Recon</i> does an impressive job of capturing the tension of jungle warfare fought under the most extreme conditions imaginable." Swan lauded the result, commenting, "It's all impressively researched, succinctly explained, and illustrated with detailed artwork." Swan's only issue was with the game's "narrow focus", which he felt "limits its appeal to mature players with an interest in the military." Swan concluded by giving this game an excellent rating of 3.5 out of 4, saying, "<i>Recon</i> is a prince of a game, easily the definitive treatment of its subject."<sup id="cite_ref-swan_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swan-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_reviews_and_commentary">Other reviews and commentary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Recon_(role-playing_game)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Other reviews and commentary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Different_Worlds" title="Different Worlds">Different Worlds</a></i> #26</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Different_Worlds" title="Different Worlds">Different Worlds</a></i> #46</li> <li><i>Sorcerer's Apprentice</i> #16<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Recon_(role-playing_game)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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