Digest Group Publications

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Digest Group Publications
Industry Tabletop role-playing games
Founded1986 in Woodburn, Oregon, United States
Founders
OwnerRoger Sanger

Digest Group Publications was an American game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements.

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History

Editors Gary L. Thomas and Joe D. Fugate, Sr. founded Digest Group Publications (DGP) in 1986 as a business that they ran part-time while working at other jobs. [1] : 203  Marc W. Miller wrote a letter to DGP in 1987, asking them to help him make Traveller material more accessible. [1] : 205 MegaTraveller (1987–1992), often shortened to MT, was published by GDW but designed by DGP which published the popular Traveller's Digest (later the MegaTraveller Journal) Traveller support magazine. The game system used revised versions of the Classic Traveller mechanics with ideas first developed in the Traveller's Digest (and later also adapted to Traveller: 2300). [2] [3] DGP's final publication, The MegaTraveller Journal #4 (1993), featured a huge campaign for MegaTraveller set in the Gateway sector, authored by William H. Keith, Jr. [1] : 206 

Roger Sanger came to Fugate's door one morning late in 1994, looking to buy books from DGP; Sanger bought some of the remaining backstock at that time, as Fugate was still paying back creditors and holding onto the boxes of remaining DGP items that he owned. [1] : 206  Over the next nine months Sanger came to an agreement whereby he paid Fugate a few thousand dollars for the remaining assets of DGP, including copyrights and trademarks; Fugate would keep the larger debts, but Sanger would take care of the smaller debts. [1] Fugate agreed to this arrangement, and Sanger became owner of DGP. [1] Initially Sanger wanted to republish DGP material and support the fourth edition of Traveller (1996), published by Imperial Games, but Sanger was unable to come up with an agreement with Marc Miller. [1] : 206 

See also

List of Digest Group MegaTraveller publications

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References

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  2. ↑ Miller, Marc W. (1987). MegaTraveller Players' Manual. Game Designers' Workshop. ISBN   0-943580-38-2. OCLC   29757224.
  3. ↑ "Players' Guide to MegaTraveller" (PDF). Far Future Enterprises]. 2005. Retrieved 2020-11-29.
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