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Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) was a company that published many popular wargames, as well as role-playing games such as Traveller and Drang Nach Osten!. Founded in 1973, the company disbanded in 1996 after having suffered financial troubles for quite some time. Many of their games are now carried by other publishers. Wargaming can be one of number of ways of exploring the effects of warfare without actual combat. ...
A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game where players assume the roles of fictional characters via role-playing. ...
Traveller was one of the first major role-playing games (RPGs) being originally published in 1977. ...
Drang Nach Osten! (1974) was the first publication of Game Designers Workshop (GDW), a wargame/simulation of Operation Barbarossa, Germanys invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. The title was inspired by the political concept Drang nach Osten, and can also be interpreted more literally as the...
1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ...
1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
The company was originally established June 22, 1973 by Frank Chadwick, Rich Banner, Marc Miller, and Loren Wiseman. Originally their main effort went into the Europa series of monster wargames, of which Drang Nach Osten! was merely the first, but they brought out a considerable number over the years. June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining. ...
Marc W. Miller (born 1947) is an American game designer. ...
Europa is a series of board wargames planned to cover combat over the entire European Theater of World War II at a scale that represents units as divisions and game turns that represent two weeks of time. ...
Wargaming can be one of number of ways of exploring the effects of warfare without actual combat. ...
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Role-playing games - 2300 AD - "Hard" Science Fiction roleplaying game. aka "Traveller 2300"
- Traveller
- MegaTraveller
- Traveller: The new Era
- Twilight 2000
- Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
- Dangerous Journey
- Dark Conspiracy
- Space: 1889
2300 AD is a hard science-fiction role playing game created by Game Designers Workshop. ...
Traveller was one of the first major role-playing games (RPGs) being originally published in 1977. ...
Twilight 2000 is a role playing game set in the aftermath of World War III. The premise is that the United States and the Soviet Union have gone to (limited) nuclear war with all its consequences. ...
Space: 1889 was an early Steampunk role-playing game by wargaming legend Frank Chadwick, originally published by Game Designers Workshop and later by Heliograph, Inc. ...
Board games Drang Nach Osten! (1974) was the first publication of Game Designers Workshop (GDW), a wargame/simulation of Operation Barbarossa, Germanys invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. The title was inspired by the political concept Drang nach Osten, and can also be interpreted more literally as the...
1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...
A House Divided is an American Civil War board wargame, designed by Frank Chadwick and released in 1981 by Game Designers Workshop. ...
1981 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...
1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Team Yankee is a novel written in 1988 by Harold Coyle whose subject is the actions of a company-sized armor unit of the United States Army in the World War III scenario as depicted by General Sir John Hackett in his novel, The Third World War. ...
1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
External link - Far Future Enterprises page on GDW (http://www.farfuture.net/ffe/n1000.html)
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