Fifth Cycle is a role-playing game published by Shield Games in 1990.
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Description
Fifth Cycle is a fantasy game, a fairly simple skill-based system. Player characters choose professions, each of which has a group of skills associated with it; the player assigns starting points to the skills as desired. The player characters are the usual fantasy races, with the addition of a winged, flying race. Magic is a spell-point system, and quite a few spells are described. The background of the world of Dolphinis is briefly covered.
Publication history
Fifth Cycle was designed by Robert Bartels and published by Shield Games in 1990 as a 198-page book.
Reception
Fifth Cycle is one of a dozen role-playing games termed by Ron Edwards in 2002 as "fantasy heartbreakers" - fantasy RPG games that were designed by people who seemed to know nothing about the advancement of game design since the original productions of Dungeons & Dragons.