Frag (game)

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Frag
Frag is a "first-person shooter" on a tabletop.
Players	2-6
Age range	14 +
Setup time	20 minutes
Playing time	60–120 minutes
Random chance	Medium-High
Skills required	Some strategy

Frag is a first-person shooter-themed board game published by Steve Jackson Games in the summer of 2001. It was developed by Steve Jackson and Philip Reed, and illustrated by Alex Fernandez.

1 Gameplay
2 Expansions and Spinoffs
- 2.1 Fan Material
3 Awards
4 External links

[edit] Gameplay

The game comes with three decks: "Weapons", "Gadgets", and "Special". "Weapons" and "Gadgets" are cards that you can pick up by landing on a certain space of the board, while "Special" cards can only be obtained by "fragging" (killing) a player.

To start the game, all players must create their character by allocating a total of seven points to three attributes: health, speed, and accuracy. Points put into health make you resistant to damage, points put into speed allow you to move around the board faster, and a higher accuracy allows you to hit targets further away, while a very high accuracy can let you shoot two or even three times per turn.

At the start of your turn, you roll dice to see how many spaces you move. As you move, you can land into a variety of spaces, such as traps, water, or weapon spaces. After moving, you can attempt to shoot a player. The closer your opponent is, the higher chance you have of hitting him/her. If you successfully hit a player, both of you roll dice to see how much damage, if any, that player takes in. If that player has no more life left, he/she dies. In that case, you score one "frag", while that player respawns on his/her next turn.

The game can have several objectives, including:

Being the first player to score a specified number of "frags".
Being the last person to be eliminated.
Killing a certain player, with other members of that player's team protecting him. ("Guardian" mode)
Having your team capture the opposing team's flags a certain number of times.

[edit] Expansions and Spinoffs

Several expansions and spinoffs to the original Frag game have been made:

Frag: Death Match, the first expansion, released in October 2001, adds rules for team play, and new board features like barrels, color-coded doors, and water, and includes one extra board.
Frag: Fire Zone, the second expansion, adds lava, rocket jumps, knockback effects from weapons, and jump pads, and includes two extra boards.
Frag PvP merges Frag with Scott Kurtz's hit comic PvP.
Frag Deadlands merges Frag with the GURPS Deadlands campaign setting.
Dork Frag, only available in Dork Tower Issue #25, merges Frag with John Kovalic's hit comic Dork Tower.