Tadashi Ehara is a

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who has worked primarily on

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Career

Tadashi Ehara, the buyer for the San Francisco game store Gambit, became the second employee of

Chaosium Chaosium Inc. is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include ''Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game), Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fiction stories of H. P. Lovecraft'', R ...

. ''

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'', '' Ru ...

'' magazine was launched in 1979 by Ehara and

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of Chaosium as a general-interest role-playing magazine. Tadashi Ehara, ''Origins of Different Worlds Magazine''
/ref> Ehara became the first editor of ''Different Worlds'', and remained editor-in-chief throughout the magazine's run. Ehara left Chaosium in 1985 and took ''Different Worlds'' with him, due to financial difficulties the company was having, and publishing resumed with ''Different Worlds'' #39 (May/June 1985) through Ehara's new partner,

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; only eight issues were published by Sleuth over a two-year period, ending with ''Different Worlds'' #46 (May/June 1987). Much of the

Judges Guild Judges Guild is a game publisher that has been active since 1976. The company created and sold many role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related materials, but became best known during the late 1970s and early 1980s as one of the leadi ...

inventory was sold to Ehara.

Gamelords Gamelords was an American game company that produced tabletop role-playing games and game supplements. History Kerry Lloyd founded the company, with three friends - Richard Meyer, Janet Trautvetter, and Michael Watkins in 1980. Gamelords was ce ...

was sold to Ehara in 1986, and he received 10,000 pounds of backstock in 344 cartons on December 1, 1986. Ehara's last big acquisition while at Sleuth was a license to publish the original ''

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 ...

'' game. Ehara withdrew from Sleuth, taking with him all the RPG products and properties he had acquired over the previous two years. Ehara then used ''Different Worlds'' as the basis of a new company,

Different Worlds Publications Different Worlds Publications is an American game company that produces role-playing games and game supplements. History Tadashi Ehara used ''Different Worlds'' as the basis of a new company, Different Worlds Publications, although he only put out ...

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

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's ''

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'' (1987-1988), the second

Tékumel ''Tékumel'' is a fantasy world created by American linguist and writer M. A. R. Barker over the course of several decades from around 1940. In this imaginary world, huge, tradition-bound empires with medieval levels of technology vie for control ...

RPG.

References

External links

Tadashi Ehara :: Pen & Paper RPG Databasearchive
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