Ed Cha is an American
role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, 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 these roles within ...
s author.
Career
In 2004, Ed Cha co-founded
Indie Press Revolution
Indie Press Revolution (also referred to as "IPR") is a sales network that acts as a fulfillment house for publishers of indie role-playing games. It was founded in 2004 by Ed Cha of Open World Press and Brennan Taylor of Galileo Games. IPR r ...
with
Brennan Taylor
Brennan Taylor is an American role-playing games author and publisher.
Career
Brennan Taylor co-founded Indie Press Revolution with Ed Cha of Open World Press in 2004 and was its first CEO. When Taylor hired Fred Hicks of Evil Hat Games as a p ...
of
Galileo Games
Galileo Games is a role-playing games publisher, best known for its games ''Bulldogs!'', ''Mortal Coil'', and ''How We Came To Live Here''. It is the publishing imprint of Brennan Taylor, who is also the CEO of Indie Press Revolution.
See also
*In ...
.
Previously, Cha had founded
Open World Press
Open World Press is a publisher of role-playing games, founded in 2001 by Ed Cha, best known for its "World of Whitethorn" series of adventure settings. It is a member of Indie Press Revolution, a fulfillment house for publishers of indie role-pla ...
, publisher of the "World of Whitethorn" series of adventure settings for the
d20 system.
In 2010,
Hero Games
Hero Games (''DOJ, Inc dba Hero Games'') is the publisher of the Hero System, a generic roleplaying rules set that can be used to simulate many different genres, and was the co-developer of the ''Fuzion'' system.
History
In 1981, George MacDo ...
purchased Indie Press Revolution from Taylor and Cha.
"World of Whitethorn 1B: The Village of Oester" was nominated for an
ENnie
The ENNIE Awards (previously stylized as ENnie Awards) are awards for role-playing game (RPG) products (including game-related accessories, publications, and art) and their creators. The awards were created in 2001 by Russ Morrissey of EN World ...
for "Best Adventure of the Year" in 2005. He stepped down as chairman of Indie Press Revolution in 2006.
References
Living people
Role-playing game writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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