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Dune is an out-of-print collectible card game produced by Last Unicorn Games and Five Rings Publishing Group, and later Wizards of the Coast.Set in the Dune universe based on the books written by Frank Herbert, [1] the game pits two or more players against each other, each in control of a minor house vying for entry in the Landsraad.
Dune (1997): Collectible card game produced by Five Rings Publishing Group/Last Unicorn Games and later Wizards of the Coast. [1] Each player leads a planetary house, "battling, conniving, and bribing its way to greatness ... players bid for powerful characters, search for the life-prolonging spice melange, avoid sandworms, engage in interstellar commerce, and, naturally, try to kill each other".
Dune: House Atreides is a 1999 science fiction novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, set in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.It is the first book in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy, which takes place before the events of Frank Herbert's celebrated 1965 novel Dune. [1]
Starting with 1999's Dune: House Atreides, the duo have published 15 Dune prequel novels to date. Dune itself is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history, [2] [3] and won the 1966 Hugo Award [4] and the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel. [5] Herbert wrote five sequels before he died in 1986. [6]
The fact that the Atreides-Harkonnen feud has persisted from the time of Dune: Prophecy to Dune suggests that the rivalry is essential to Herbert's universe. Yet the origins of the rift go largely ...
Keiran Atreides, portrayed by Chris Mason, is the new Swordmaster of House Corrino. [17] He has a strong sense of right and wrong, and struggles with the corruption of the royal court and his own family's legacy. [12] In "The Hidden Hand", Keiran has been tasked with training the future Empress, Princess Ynez, in swordplay.
In Dune, Piter is the architect of the plan to destroy House Atreides, longtime enemy of the Harkonnens, while restoring the Baron's stewardship over the planet Arrakis. Though the personal physician of Duke Leto Atreides, Wellington Yueh, has undergone Suk conditioning which renders him incapable of inflicting harm on his patients, Piter ...
House Harkonnen When the Harkonnen player buys a treachery card, they receive a second one free, without having to show it to the Atreides player. They can hold twice as many treachery cards as other players, to a maximum of eight. Where the other players must choose one traitor out of four, the Harkonnen player can keep all four.