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Poseidon (Justifiers)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ140606197 ↗
Source-derived summary

Poseidon is a 1989 role-playing game adventure published by StarChilde for Justifiers.

Plot summary

Poseidon is an adventure in which the player characters explore a water-world on behalf of their corporation. During their mission, they encounter rivals and indigenous mer-people. The scenario introduces new types of beta-humanoid, including alligator, frog, hellbender, sea snake, and snapping turtle.

Publication history

Poseidon was written by Jim Adams with illustrations by Tim Dzon and published by StarChilde in 1989 as a 64-page digest-sized book.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Poseidon, Justifiers and Open-knowledge.
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This entry incorporates text from “Poseidon (Justifiers)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.