Tadashi Ehara
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer

Tadashi Ehara is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career

Tadashi Ehara, the buyer for the San Francisco game store Gambit, became the second employee of Chaosium.[1]: 83  Different Worlds magazine was launched in 1979 by Ehara and Greg Stafford of Chaosium as a general-interest role-playing magazine.[2] Ehara became the first editor of Different Worlds, and remained editor-in-chief throughout the magazine's run.[1]: 84  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, Sleuth Publications; only eight issues were published by Sleuth over a two-year period, ending with Different Worlds #46 (May/June 1987).[1]: 84  Much of the Judges Guild inventory was sold to Ehara.[1]: 69  Gamelords was sold to Ehara in 1986, and he received 10,000 pounds of backstock in 344 cartons on December 1, 1986.[1]: 131–132  Ehara's last big acquisition while at Sleuth was a license to publish the original Empire of the Petal Throne game.[1]: 89  Ehara withdrew from Sleuth, taking with him all the RPG products and properties he had acquired over the previous two years.[1]: 89  Ehara then used Different Worlds as the basis of a new company, Different Worlds Publications, although he only put out one more issue of Different Worlds, #47 (Fall 1987).[1]: 84  From 1987-1989, Ehara also published a reprint of Empire of the Petal Throne (1987), and a reprint of part of Gamescience's Swords & Glory (1987-1988), the second Tékumel RPG.[1]: 89 

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  2. ↑ Tadashi Ehara, Origins of Different Worlds Magazine
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