Tadashi Ehara

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Tadashi Ehara
Nationality American
Occupation Game designer

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

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Tadashi Ehara worked as the buyer for the Gambit game store in San Francisco when he 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 stayed on as the editor-in-chief for the entire run of the magazine. [1] : 84  Ehara left Chaosium in 1985 because of financial difficulties the company was having and took Different Worlds with him, and resumed publishing with Different Worlds #39 (May/June 1985) through his Sleuth Publications whom he became partners with; although Sleuth only published eight issues over a two-year period, ending with Different Worlds #46 (May/June 1987). [1] : 84  Ehara later purchased a large portion of the Judges Guild inventory. [1] : 69  Ehara purchased Gamelords for Sleuth Publications in 1986, and on December 1, 1986 they sent him 10,000 pounds of backstock packed into 344 cartons. [1] : 131–132  Ehara acquired a license to publish the Empire of the Petal Throne role-playing game through Sleuth. [1] : 89  Ehara later withdrew from Sleuth after working with them for two years, taking all of the role-playing game products and properties he acquired in that time. [1] : 89  Ehara then used Different Worlds to form the new company Different Worlds Publications, although he released only one final issue as Different Worlds #47 (Fall 1987). [1] : 84  Ehara also published a reprint of Empire of the Petal Throne (1987), and a reprint of part of the second Tékumel role-playing game Swords & Glory (1987-1988) which was originally published by Gamescience. [1] : 89 

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  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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