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Frag (game)

A tabletop first-person shooter with frags, respawns, and power-ups.

Frag is a board game based on first-person shooters, released by Steve Jackson Games in 2001. Designed by Steve Jackson and Philip Reed with art by Alex Fernandez, it uses cards for weapons, gadgets, and specials. Players allocate points to health, speed, and accuracy, then move and shoot to score frags.

Quick Facts

Subject name
Frag
Players
2-6
Ages
12+
Setup time
20 minutes
Playing time
60–120 minutes
Random chance
medium-high
Skills
Some strategy

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Expansions and Spinoffs

Frag: Death Match, released in October 2001, adds team play rules, barrels, color-coded doors, water, and an extra board. Frag: Fire Zone introduces lava, rocket jumps, knockback effects, jump pads, and two extra boards. Frag PvP merges Frag with Scott Kurtz's comic PvP and requires the base game. Frag Deadlands combines Frag with the GURPS Deadlands setting as a standalone boxed edition with a new Hex card type. Dork Frag, a truncated standalone edition, was included in Dork Tower Issue #25 and the Dork Tower board game.

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