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Brian Blume

14 games Designed 10 games Art for 4 games

Brian J. Blume (January 12, 1950 - March 27, 2020) was an Oak Park, Illinois-born game designer and cartographer who was instrumental in helping to start the game company Tactical Studies Rules (TSR). Tactical Studies Rules was formed in 1973 as a partnership between Gary Gygax and Don Kaye. Brian Blume and Dave Arneson soon joined them. When Don Kaye died of a stroke in 1975, the partnership was dissolved, and…

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Brian Blume and Gary Gygax incorporated the new company as TSR Hobbies, Inc. with Blume and his father having the larger share. With the Blume family controlling the larger share, Gygax became a figurehead with Brian Blume as the president of creative affairs. He attended Wabash College" In the mid-1980s, he sold his share of the company just before Gygax sold his remaining stock and left TSR in 1985. He passed away on Friday, March 27, 2020, at a nursing home in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, of Lewy Body Dementia and Parkinson's disease. Articles Games listing at Pen-paper.net

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Designed 10 games

Boot Hill	1975	0
Ringside	1980	0
Horsepower: 5000 Expansion Set 1 – World Rails	1996	0
Rails to the South Pole	1995	0
Horsepower: 5000 Deluxe Set 1 – Northern Iron	1995	0
The Best of Dragon Magazine Games	1990	0
Championship Sumo Wrestling	1982	0
Star Empires	1977	0
Panzer Warfare	1975	0
Warriors of Mars	1974	0

Art for 4 games

Nippon Rails · 1992

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LA Lawless	1993	0
Warlocks & Warriors	1977	0
Little Big Horn: Custer's Last Stand	1976	0