Lankhmar (board game)

Lankhmar is a fantasy board wargame published in 1976 by TSR, based on the Swords and Sorcery short stories of Fritz Leiber set in the fictional city of Lankhmar, and in turn based on an earlier board game that Leiber himself designed together with Harry Otto Fischer while the two were in college. The published version was revised for TSR by Gary Gygax, Robert J. Kuntz and Brad Stock, and two to four players take on the roles of rival heroes drawn from Leiber's tales, moving pieces across a large hexagonal map of the city printed at twenty-two by twenty-eight inches. Play uses more than two hundred cardboard counters along with Geas and Reward cards drawn from the source stories, and a player wins by capturing every rival's citadel on the city map, making the game as much a struggle over territory and fortified strongholds within Lankhmar as a battle between individual heroes.