Evil Hat Next: 2010-Present
This is the fourth of my updates written for the (now completed) Kickstarter for the German edition of Designers & Dragons. Like the others, it expands one of my histories from the second edition...
View ArticleFantasy Flight Next: 2004-Present
This is the last of my five updates produced for the German edition of Designers & Dragons, which was crowdfunded by Feder & Schwert this fall. As it turned out, I did a lot of revision of...
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The Chaosium Connections v2.0
Some years ago, one of the earliest articles written for Designers & Dragons was a look at Chaosium’s connections in the roleplaying industry. What follows is an update of that classic article...
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The Target Connections
Chaosium has had an enormous effect on the gaming industry. As shown in The Chaosium Connections, there are approximately 75 companies who are closely connected to Chaosium’s roleplaying publications...
View ArticlePinnacle Entertainment Next: 2004-Present
In the early ’00s, Pinnacle Entertainment reinvented themselves as the publisher not just of Deadlands, but of Savage Worlds. They’ve continued that reinvention ever since, and today are a successful...
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TSR Connections: Licensees & Lawsuits
Every company interacts with the rest of the industry in a different way. For Chaosium it’s been more than 40 years of licensing, while Target Games created and defined roleplaying in its home country...
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TSR Connections: Miniatures & Miscellanea
Though TSR largely moved from licensing to lawsuits in the ’80s and ’90s within the roleplaying industry, they simultaneously kept up a steady stream of licensing with companies were weren’t producing...
View ArticleThe GDW Production Records, Part Two: A Traveller Overview
Some years ago I wrote an article on GDW’s Production Records, which overviewed the company’s print runs from 1973-1986 by looking at early wargame runs and the company’s overall RPG production in...
View ArticleThe GDW Production Records, Part Three: Supplements & Comparisons
The two previous articles in this series, An Overview and A Traveller Overview summarized the sales of Traveller during its classic era of release. This final article in the series looks at the...
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The Onyx Path Crowd Funding Records
Kickstarter was launched in 2009, but 2011 was the year it really took off in the roleplaying field. Bulldogs! (2011) raised $13,430 that year and that seemed like a big deal, but we didn’t yet know...
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