Tadashi Ehara is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Career
Tadashi Ehara worked as the buyer for the Gambit game store in San Francisco when he became the second employee of
Chaosium.
magazine was launched in 1979 by Ehara and Greg Stafford of Chaosium as a general-interest role-playing magazine.
[ Tadashi Ehara, Origins of Different Worlds Magazine] Ehara became the first editor of
Different Worlds, and stayed on as the editor-in-chief for the entire run of the magazine.
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).
Ehara later purchased a large portion of the
Judges Guild inventory.
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.
Ehara acquired a license to publish the
Empire of the Petal Throne role-playing game through Sleuth.
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.
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).
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.
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