Game Designers' Workshop
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| Type | Unknown (defunct) |
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| Founded | June 22, 1973 |
| Headquarters | Normal, Illinois USA |
| Key people | Frank Chadwick, Rich Banner, Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman |
| Industry | Wargame and Role-playing game publisher |
| Products | Traveller |
Not to be confused with the similary named, UK-based Games Workshop.
Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) was a company that published many popular wargames, as well as role-playing games such as Traveller. Founded in June 22, 1973, the company disbanded February 29, 1996 after having suffered financial troubles for quite some time. Many of their games are now carried by other publishers.
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.
By rough count, GDW published one new product every 22 days for 22 years. The designers attributed the company's demise as much to burn-out as to financial difficulties.
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[edit] Products
[edit] Role-playing games
- 2300 AD (1987) - A hard science fiction roleplaying game. First edition was titled "Traveller: 2300"
- Cadillacs and Dinosaurs - Based on the underground comic book Xenozoic Tales.
- Dangerous Journeys (1992)
- Dark Conspiracy (1991)
- En Garde! (1975) - Dueling game set in 17th-century France
- Space: 1889 (1988) - Victorian-era spacefaring game
- Traveller (1977) - A science fiction game originally intended for a ruleset for generic space opera adventures.
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- MegaTraveller (1986)- Second edition of Traveller.
- Traveller: The New Era (1992) - Third edition of Traveller.
- Twilight 2000 (1984) - An alternate history game set in a Europe devastated by nuclear war.
[edit] Board games
- 1815: The Waterloo Campaign (????)
- 1941 (Series 120) (1980)
- 1941 (Series 120) (1981)
- 1942 (Series 120) (1978)
- Air Superiority (1987)
- Assault: Tactical Combat in Europe: 1985 (Assault series) (1983)
- Asteroid (1980)
- Azhanti High Lightning (Traveller tie-in) (1980)
- Battle for Midway (1976)
- The Battle of Guilford Courthouse (Series 120) (1978)
- The Battle of Lobositz (Series 120) (1978)
- The Battle of the Alma (Series 120) (1978)
- Bar-Lev (1977) (from Conflict Games)
- Blue Max (1983)
- Campaign Trail (1983)
- Case White (Europa series) (1977)
- Coral Sea (1974)
- Dark Nebula: Battles for the Stars (Traveller tie-in) (1983)
- Drang Nach Osten! (Europa series) (1973)
- Eylau: Napoleon's Winter Battle, 1807 (1980)
- The Fall of France (Europa series) (1981)
- Fifth Frontier War (Traveller tie-in) (1981)
- Fire in the East (Europa series) (1984) (revision of Drang Nach Osten!)
- A House Divided (1981)
- Imperium (1977)
- Indian Ocean Adventure (1978)
- Invasion: Earth (Traveller tie-in) (1981)
- Kasserine Pass (1973?) (from Conflict Games)
- Marita-Merkur (Europa series) (1979)
- Mayday (Traveller tie-in) (1978)
- Minion Hunter (Dark Conspiracy tie-in) (1992)
- Narvik (Europa series) (1974)
- Normandy Campaign: From Beachhead to Breakout (Double Blind series) (1983)
- Operation Crusader (1978)
- Overlord (1973?) (from Conflict Games)
- The Sands of War (1991)
- Sky Galleons of Mars (basis of Space: 1888) (1988)
- Snapshot (Traveller tie-in) (1979)
- Soldier King (1982)
- Suez '73: Battle for Chinese Farm (1981)
- Team Yankee (1988)
- Their Finest Hour (Europa series) (1976)
- The Third World War: Arctic Front (1985)
- The Third World War: Battle for Germany (1984)
- The Third World War: Persian Gulf (1986)
- The Third World War: Southern Front (1984)
- Torch (Europa series) (1985)
- Trenchfoot: Bullets & Bayonets in the Great War (1981)
- Triplanetary (1973)
- Western Desert (Europa series) (1982)
[edit] Miniatures rules
- Fire & Steel (Napoleonic Wars)
- Harpoon (modern naval combat), later developed into a computer game
- Johnny Reb (American Civil War)
- Striker (science fiction, 1983)
- Command Decision (20th Century Warfare)
- Tac Force (20th Century Warfare)
