Alderac Entertainment Group

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Alderac Entertainment Group
Type Privately held company
Industry Role-playing, Collectible card games
Founded 1993
Headquarters Ontario, California, USA
Key people John Zinser, Todd Rowland, Mark Wootton
Products See article
Website www.alderac.com

Alderac Entertainment Group, or AEG, is a publisher of role-playing game, board game, and collectible card game products. AEG was formed by Jolly Blackburn[1] in 1993 and is based in the city of Ontario, California. Prior to getting into their current markets, AEG was involved in hobby gaming magazines, with their first product the magazine Shadis (winner of the 1994, 1995, and 1996 Origins Awards for Best Professional Gaming Magazine[2][3][4]).

Including the three for Shadis mentioned above, AEG products have garnered eight Origins Awards (see the individual articles noted below for more details).

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In 2009, AEG entered the board games market with 10 new board game releases. Notable successes include Thunderstone and Smash Up.

Products[edit | edit source]

Collectible card games[edit | edit source]

Board games[edit | edit source]

  • Tiny Towns
  • The Adventurers
  • Arcana
  • Infinite City
  • Tomb
  • Tomb: Cryptmaster
  • Abandon Ship
  • Monkey Lab
  • Isle of Doctor Necreaux
  • Rush N' Crush
  • Smash Up Series
    • Smash Up: Awesome Level 9000
    • Smash Up: The Obligatory Cthulhu Set
    • Smash Up: Science Fiction Double Feature
    • Smash Up: Monster Smash
    • Smash Up: Pretty Pretty Smash Up
    • Smash Up: Munchkin (StandAlone Expansion)
    • Smash Up: It's Your Fault
    • Smash Up: Cease and Desist
    • Smash Up: What Were We Thinking?
    • Smash Up: Big in Japan
    • Smash Up: That 70's Expansion
    • Smash Up: Oops You Did It Again
    • Smash Up: Big Geeky Box (Accessory/Expansion)
    • Smash Up: World Tour: International Incident
    • Smash Up: World Tour: Culture Shock
    • Smash Up: Marvel (Upcoming StandAlone Expansion)
  • Straw
  • Myth: Pantheons
  • Pressure Matrix
  • The Tempest Series of Games
  • Pretense

Deck-building card games[edit | edit source]

  • Thunderstone
  • Mystic Vale
  • Nightfall
  • Valley of the Kings
  • Valley of the Kings - Afterlife
  • Dead Reckoning
  • Trains (also a board game, Origins Award winner)

Role-playing games[edit | edit source]

Miniatures[edit | edit source]

  • Clan War[12] (Legend of the Five Rings Miniature Combat)

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Varney, Allen (November 1998). "ProFiles: Jolly Blackburn". Dragon (Renton, Washington: Wizards of the Coast) (#253): 120. 
  2. "Origins Award Winners (1994)". Archived from the original on 2008-03-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20080317000554/http://www.originsgamefair.com/awards/1994/list-of-winners. 
  3. "Origins Award Winners (1995)". Archived from the original on 2008-01-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20080102044110/http://www.originsgamefair.com/awards/1995/list-of-winners. 
  4. "Origins Award Winners (1996)". Archived from the original on 2007-12-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20071221022725/http://www.originsgamefair.com/awards/1996/list-of-winners. 
  5. "Evil (Review)". RPG Resource. http://www.rpg-resource.org.uk/index.php?article=714&visual=4. Retrieved 2007-09-26. 
  6. "Dungeons (Review)". RPG Resource. http://www.rpg-resource.org.uk/index.php?article=713&visual=4. Retrieved 2007-09-26. 
  7. "Sundered Faith (Review)". RPG Resource. http://www.rpg-resource.org.uk/index.php?article=712&visual=4. Retrieved 2007-09-26. 
  8. Newquist, Ken. "Stargate SG-1 Roleplaying Game (Review)". SciFi.com. Archived from the original on 2007-08-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20070827130124/http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue338/games.html. Retrieved 2007-09-26. 
  9. Kohler, Alan. "Review of Swashbuckling Adventures". Psion. http://www.enworld.org/reviews.php?do=review&reviewid=2009307. Retrieved 2007-09-26 
  10. Mix, Brad (2002). "Review of Swashbuckling Adventures". D20 Magazine Rack. http://www.d20zines.com/v7/node/142. Retrieved 2007-09-26 
  11. Bassingthwaite, Don. "The SF Site Featured Review: 7th Sea". Archived from the original on 25 August 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070825191716/http://www.sfsite.com/10b/7th67.htm. Retrieved 2007-09-26. 
  12. "Listing for Alderac Entertainment Group". The Miniatures Page. http://theminiaturespage.com/man/alderac/. Retrieved 2007-09-27. 

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