2008: The Year in Roleplaying
appelcline D&D 4E, Mongoose Traveller, and the end of GW Roleplaying in 2008.
Genres: Super Heroes
An introductory look at the genre of superheroes, from their origin to the present day.
Holistic Design: 1996-2003
Holistic Design is best known for bringing the White Wolf tropes to science fiction, with their Fading Suns RPG.
Atlas Games: 1990-Present
Atlas Games spun off of Lion Rampant by way of a photocopier and published many early indie games in the '90s and beyond.
White Wolf: 1986-Present
After TSR, White Wolf was probably the most important roleplaying company of the 20th century, for their creation of a World of Darkness.
Lion Rampant: 1987-1990
A small company in Minnesota, founded with a MacPlus bought with an inheritance, would be one of th emost important in gaming.
ICE: 1980-Present
One of the industry's oldest companies, publisher of Rolemaster and MERP, only continues today in a new incarnation.
The Chaosium Connections
This article is part of a semi-monthly column on the history of roleplaying, one game company at a time. However, just looking at singular companies doesn’t always give the whole…
Pagan Publishing: 1990-Present
Though a licensee of Chaosium, Pagan may have been the most notable publisher for Call of Cthulhu in the 90s.
Green Knight: 1998-2002
Green Knight inherited Pendragon from Chaosium, but their publication was short-lived.