Gaming Companies & Retailers
- Aetherco
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“Continuum”, a time-travel game, and Chi-Chian (Freaks Arise!) as well as the “Yamara” comic strip.
- Alderac Entertainment Group
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One-time publishers of the Shadis rpg magazine and current publishers of a swashbuckling RPG called “7th Seal”.
- Basement Games
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Publishers of the role-playing game “Forge” and the “World of Juravia”. I’m not sure they’re still around—the links on the bottom of the page don’t work.
- Blacksburg Tactical Research Center
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These are the people behind CORPS and Macho Women with Guns, among other “spectabulous” games.
- Chessex
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Mostly dice. Speckled dice with pictures. No previews. Also, vinyl mats and other gaming accessories.
- Cult of Cthulhu
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The Cult of Cthulhu is the home of the Empire of Satanis role-playing game, as well as some interesting cult figures.
- Deep 7
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You can buy their one-page RPGs directly on-line, and get them as Adobe Acrobat. I’m assuming that one page does not include the cover… includes “Blood Island”, “Shriek”, and others. (I think it is just the rules that are one page, not the background. At least, I hope this is the case.)
- Dragon Tree Press
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The publishers of the Arduin Grimoires and other old-school aids in the style of the original Dungeons & Dragons books are back.
- The Escapist
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Part of (or all of?) The Committee for the Advancement of Role-Playing Games. You can’t join by paying money, only by doing something useful. Also includes one of the best collection of RPG advocacy links on the net.
- Flying Buffalo, Inc.
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The home of Tunnels and Trolls, aging fanboys! Nowadays, however, their primary business is Play-By-Mail. They’ve kept both Tunnels and Trolls, and Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes in print, and you can order them here.
- Game Manufacturers Association
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Serving the adventure games industry. Also info about Origins and game design awards.
- Gamer’s Realm
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They’ll get anything they can, and ship it anywhere. Includes an on-line catalog. Looks like a nice local resource for West Windsor, New Jersey as well.
- GeoffQuest Homepage
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Swords and Magic, Techies and Androids. Gaming in the past and the future.
- Gold Rush Games
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Usagi Yojimbo, Bushido, San Angelo. You can order them direct or from the listed distributors. Um… except that their provider died, taking their databases with them.
- Guildhall Press
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Includes “B-Movie: The Game of Schlock”, “Guilds of Strinrath”, and possibly a new version of Tunnels and Trolls, co-produced with Flying Buffalo! A demo version of their “B-Movie” game is on-line.
- Hero Games
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Most of the Hero stuff is available here, except for graph paper.
- Hubris Games Artifacts
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Hubris Games is gone, but T. Kurt Bond has archived some of their material.
- Imagine Games and Hobbies
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Winnipeg games store, with forums for Winnipeg gamers.
- Infinite Horizons
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Home of Infinite Horizons, a generic gaming system, with add-ons for fantasy, horror, cyberpunk, and space opera.
- Iron Crown Enterprises
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You know, I remember these folks from “The Iron Wind”, an absolutely useless game aid that I loved and still read occasionally. Never could figure out that map. Anyway, they now do Rolemaster and a few other things.
- Irony Games
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Including an on-line dice roller? Hm… Also, retails RPG and fiction. And a kind of neat Java-based mapmaker. Seems that everything except the dice roller is gone. The site apparently has been taken over by a satire magazine, but they forgot to remove the previous tenant’s files.
- Judges Guild
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No friggin’ way! Judges’ Guild is back! Rat on a Stick! Pegasus adventures for download!
- Kenzer and Company
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“Grab your coconuts and let’s play”??? What kind of perverted wackos are these guys? Among other things, they’re the perverted wackos who come up with “Knights of the Dinner Table” each month for Dragon Magazine! Also includes some gaming aids.
- Koplow Games
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While they don’t have the variety of dice that Chessex has, they do offer an assorted 10-pack that comes with exactly the dice you need for a Gods & Monsters game.
- Lejendary Adventure
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“Lejendary Adventure is a multi-genre roleplaying game created by Gary Gygax that is easy for the beginner to learn, yet complex enough to keep even the most experienced gamer satisfied. Gary Gygax intentionally created the system to allow maximum flexibility for the game master during play—that means fewer, if any, breaks in the game session to look up complex combat rules or strange situational modifiers. The result is a game session with a lot more role-playing and excitement!”
- Magic Frontiers
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Ad for a magazine regarding the “Magic Frontiers” science fiction rpg.
- Panurge Resources
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Imazine Magazine and Outlaws of the Water Margin. Includes PDFs of the magazine.
- Pegasus Press
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The German publisher of GURPS, INWO, Mythos, Kings & Things, the German role-playing games ‘Midgard’ and ‘Midgard 1880’ plus a few RPG magazines.
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- R. Talsorian Games
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Cyberpunk 2020, of course, and other odd items such as Bubblegum Crisis. And Teenagers From Outer Space!
- SSDC
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Some interesting-looking Battle Lords stuff here. Also, “Blood Dawn”.
- Steve Jackson Games
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Includes the GURPS FAQ among a multitude of other SJG gaming info pages. Look for far more than GURPS stuff on these pages. Look too deep and you might never come back. “When you gaze into the warehouse, the warehouse gazes back.”
- Stuperpowers
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“The First Class Role-Playing Game for Third-Rate Heroes.” You can read the basic rules on-line or order the book from them.
- Talislanta
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“Ten years later, still no elves.” One of the most detailed worlds in role-playing.
- Tri Tac Games
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Makers of fringe rpg weirdness such as Bureau 13, Fringeworthy. Approved by the Federal Bureau of Investigation!
- Uncle Bear Games
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Collection of old gaming stuff, including a few games and spam.
- UNIgames
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Living Legends (from Jeff Dee) and other games.
- Wasteland Games
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Once a gaming company, “based in Northern Ireland”, they published a bunch of games, including a “hong-kong action” style rpg, and “A horror game where the characters are lunatics trapped in their own subjective realities”. When they went out of business, they posted each of the games on-line. Very good form.
- Wizards of the Coast
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Home of TSR and the Dungeons and Dragons line.
