Adventure Games

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Adventure Games was an American game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements.

History[]

In the early 1980s Dave Arneson established his own game company, Adventure Games – staffed largely by Arneson's friends, most of whom were also members of a Civil War reenactment group – that produced the miniatures games Harpoon (1981) and Johnny Reb (1983), as well as a new edition of his own Adventures in Fantasy role-playing game (1981).[1]: 39 [2] The company also put out about a half-dozen Tékumel related books, due to Arneson's friendship with M. A. R. Barker.[1]: 39  Adventure Games was profitable, but Arneson found the workload to be excessive and finally sold the company to Flying Buffalo.[3] Flying Buffalo picked up the rights to Adventure Games in 1985; because Arneson owned a portion of Flying Buffalo, he let them take care of the rest of the company's stock and IP when he shut the company down.[1]: 39 

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  2. ^ Varney, Allen (July 1998). "Profiles: Dave Arneson". Dragon. Renton, Washington: Wizards of the Coast (#249): 120.
  3. ^ Sacco, Ciro Allessandro. "An Interview with Dave Arneson". Archived from the original on July 7, 2004. Retrieved June 3, 2009. (Alternative URL: [1].)
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