Imperium Games was an American game company that produced

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s and game supplements.

History

Marc W. Miller Marc William Miller is a wargame and role-playing game designer and author. Early career After serving in the U.S. Army, Miller continued his studies at Illinois State University in 1972 under the G.I. Bill. There he joined the ISU Game Club, ...

partnered with Sweetpea Entertainment to license his science-fiction property ''

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'' in exchange for funding to get Imperium Games running in February 1996, as a new publisher solely dedicated to ''Traveller'' material, beginning with a new, fourth edition of the game titled ''Marc Miller's Traveller'', commonly abbreviated ''T4''. Sweetpea advanced Imperium Games seed money to launch in exchange for equity and media rights. Lester W. Smith and Timothy Brown, former employees of original ''Traveller'' publisher Game Designers' Workshop (GDW), came to work for Imperium Games.

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also designed role playing products for ''Traveller''.

Larry Elmore Larry Elmore (born August 5, 1948) is an American fantasy artist whose work includes creating illustrations for video games, comics, magazines, and fantasy books. His list of work includes illustrations for ''Dungeons & Dragons'', ''Dragonlance'', ...

created most of the black-and-white artwork for ''Marc Miller's Traveller''. Chris Foss created much of the color concept art for the new edition of ''Traveller'', produced 12 pages of artwork for the edition's first supplement, ''Starships'', and illustrated a number of covers for the line. When Sweetpea Entertainment bought out the stock of the many creators who had worked on ''T4'' and took over some of the day-to-day operations of the company, Timothy Brown took the helm of Imperium Games under Sweetpea's guidance, and was now the only official staff for Imperium, with others acting as freelancers.

References

{{reflist Role-playing game publishing companies