Phoenix Games (I)
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Phoenix Games (I)

Phoenix Games began as a partnership between Dan Bress and Phil Edgren, and was a successor to the company Little Soldier Games, to which Bress and Edgren had both contributed before that company closed.  Ed Konstant of Little Soldier Games designed some products for Phoenix Games, such as The Book of Fantasy Miniatures (1978) and Elementary Watson (1978), which were financed by Gamescience in exchange for rights to…

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the back catalog for Little Soldier Games. A few transitional supplements were published between the companies, such as The Book of Shamans by Ed Lipsett (1978), using the Little Soldier Games label as a division of Phoenix Games. Phoenix Games continued publishing the fantasy role-playing game supplements that Little Soldier Games had started, and expanded into science-fiction role-playing game supplements. Phoenix Games published the first role-playing game work by Kerry Lloyd, the fantasy adventure The Mines of Keridav (1979). Phoenix Games also published The Book of Treasure by Phil Edgren in 1978, and the fantasy adventure The Lost Abbey of Calthonwey by R. Norman Carter in 1979, as well as Ed Lipsett's series of science-fiction role-playing game supplements: Spacefarers Guide to Planets: Sector One (1978), Spacefarers Guide to Planets: Sector Two (1979), Spacefarers Guide to Alien Monsters (1979), and Spacefarers Guide to Alien Races (1979). These supplements by Lipsett led to his Star Quest (1984) game. The second edition of the role-playing game Bushido was published by Phoenix Games in 1980; Phoenix Games was also preparing to publish Paul Hume and Bob Charrette's Aftermath! (1981), but as the company went defunct, Fantasy Games Unlimited reprinted Bushido in 1981, and stickered their logo over the Phoenix Games logo on the boxes for Aftermath!. Adapted from Wikipedia, "Phoenix Games (American company)," available under the CC-BY-SA License.

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Streets of Stalingrad 1979 0
Elementary Watson 1978 0