Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) is a publisher of family

board game A board game is a type of tabletop game that involves small objects () that are placed and moved in particular ways on a specially designed patterned game board, potentially including other components, e.g. dice. The earliest known uses of the ...

products. AEG was formed by Jolly Blackburn in 1993. Blackburn left the company in 1995 and the majority of the company is now owned by President & CEO John Zinser. The company is virtual and does not have a physical headquarters but it is legally domiciled in the city of

Henderson, Nevada Henderson is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, about southeast of downtown Las Vegas. It is the List of cities in Nevada, 2nd most populous city in Nevada, after Las Vegas, with 317,610 residents. The city is part of the Las Vegas V ...

. AEG's first product was ''

Shadis ''Shadis'' is an independent gaming magazine that was published in 1990–1998 by Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG). It initially focused on role-playing games. Publication history Shadis was conceived and started by Jolly Blackburn as an inde ...

'' Magazine (winner of the 1994, 1995, and 1996

Origins Award The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the gaming industry. They are presented by the Game Manufacturers Association (GAMA) at the Origins Game Fair on an annual basis for games released in the preceding year. For example, t ...

s for ''Best Professional Gaming Magazine''). In 1994 the company began working on the development of the

Legend of the Five Rings Legend of the Five Rings (often abbreviated ''L5R'') is a fictional setting created by John Zinser, Dave Seay, Ryan Dancey, Dave Williams, DJ Trindle, Matt Wilson (artist), Matt Wilson and John Wick (role-playing game designer), John Wick and ...

Collectible Card Game A collectible card game (CCG), also called a trading card game (TCG) among other names, is a type of card game that mixes strategy game, strategic deck building elements with features of trading cards. The genre was introduced with ''Magic: The G ...

; that game was published in 1995. Throughout the 1990s AEG expanded its CCG offerings and began designing and publishing

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and Miniatures Wargame Game products as well. The company has exited the CCG, RPG and Miniatures Wargame categories and now exclusively publishes family board games. Including the three for ''Shadis'' mentioned above, AEG products have garnered twenty Origins Awards (see the individual articles noted below for more details). In 2014,

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was on the recommended list published by the

Spiel des Jahres The Spiel des Jahres (, 'Game of the Year') is an award for board and card games, created in 1978 with the purpose of rewarding family-friendly game design, and promoting excellent games in the German market. It is thought that the existence an ...

judges committee. In 2022, Cascadia, which AEG co-publishes with Flatout Games won the

Game of the Year award. AEG & Flatout licensed the game to Kosmos for the award-winning German language edition.

Current products

Best-selling and award-winning board games

* ''

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'' * '' Cascadia - co-published with Flatout Games'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * ''

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'' * ''

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Discontinued products

Games sold to other publishers

* ''

7th Sea Collectible Card Game ''7th Sea'' is an out-of-print collectible card game (CCG) first designed by Dan Verssen and published by Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) from 1999 to 2002. Its theme is swashbuckling nautical adventure found in classic stories like Treas ...

'' (Multiple Origins Award winner) * ''

Doomtown Collectible Card Game Doomtown (originally ''Deadlands: Doomtown'', later rereleased as ''Doomtown: Reloaded'') is an expandable card game based on the ''Deadlands'' role-playing game. It was originally a collectible card game (''Deadlands: Doomtown'') that ran from ...

'' (Multiple Origins Award winner) * ''

Legend of the Burning Sands ''Legend of the Burning Sands'' (''LBS'') is an out-of-print collectible card game (CCG) published by Five Rings Publishing Group (FRPG, then a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast) in July 1998. It was a spin-off from the earlier CCG ''Legend of ...

'' * ''

Spycraft Spycraft is a d20 and OGL-based role-playing game dealing with superspies and modern action. Originally published by the Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG), it is currently published under licence by Crafty Games. History Originally envisi ...

Collectible card games

* '' City of Heroes Collectible Card Game'' * ''HumAliens'' * ''Initial D'' * ''Romance of the Nine Empires'' * '' Warlord: Saga of the Storm''

Role-playing games

* many ''

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'' Sourcebooks such as ** ''Evil'' ** ''Dungeons: A Guide to Survival in the Realms Below'' **''Sundered Faith'' * ''

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'' * '' Farscape Roleplaying Game'' * '' Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game'' (Origins Award winner) * ''Shadowforce Archer'' * ''

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'' * '' Swashbuckling Adventures'' (previously '' 7th Sea'' which won an Origins Award) * ''Ultimate Toolbox'' * ''Warlords of the Accordlands'' * '' World's Largest Dungeon'' * ''World's Largest City''

Miniatures

*'' Clan War'' (''Legend of the Five Rings Miniature Combat'')

References

External links

AEG's official site
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Current products

Best-selling and award-winning board games

Discontinued products

Games sold to other publishers

Collectible card games

Role-playing games

Miniatures

See also

References

External links