Different Worlds Publications is an American game company that produces

role-playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out ...

s and game supplements.

History

Tadashi Ehara Tadashi Ehara is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Tadashi Ehara worked as the buyer for the Gambit game store in San Francisco when he became the second employee of Chaosium. ''Different Worlds'' magazine wa ...

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Different Worlds ''Different Worlds'' was an American role-playing games magazine published from 1979 to 1987. Scope ''Different Worlds'' published support articles, scenarios, and variants for various role-playing games including ''Dungeons & Dragons'', ''Rune ...

'' as the basis of a new company, Different Worlds Publications, although he only put out one more issue of ''Different Worlds'', #47 (Fall 1987). From 1987-1989, Ehara also published a reprint of ''

Empire of the Petal Throne ''Empire of the Petal Throne'' is a fantasy role-playing game designed by M. A. R. Barker, based on his Tékumel fictional universe. It was self-published in 1974, then published by TSR, Inc. in 1975. It was one of the first tabletop role-pla ...

'' (1987), and a reprint of part of

Gamescience Gamescience is an American game company that produces role-playing games and game supplements. History Gamescience Corp. was started by Phillip E. Orbanes in 1965. In that year, the company published the wargame Vietnam which was reviewed in is ...

's ''

Swords & Glory A sword is an edged and bladed weapons, edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting. Its blade, longer than a knife or dagger, is attached to a hilt and can be straight or curved. A thrusting sword tends to have a straighter ...

'' (1987-1988), the second Tékumel RPG. Different Worlds Publications published Robert J. Kuntz's ''The Eight Kings'' (2004), the final book in the four-book adventure series after it was abandoned by Necromancer Games.

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