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1996 Origins Award winners, the Glossary

The following are the winners of the 23rd annual (1996) Origins Award, presented at Origins 1997.^[1]

55 relations: Age of Renaissance, Alderac Entertainment Group, Andy Chambers, Atlas Games, Avalon Hill, BattleTech, Catan, Chaosium, Charlie Krank, Clash of Arms, Cosmic Encounter, Darwin Bromley, Deadlands, Editions of Dungeons & Dragons, Eon Products, FASA, Five Rings Publishing Group, Game Designers' Workshop, Games Workshop, Gary Gygax, Iron Crown Enterprises, Jean Rabe, John Zinser (game designer), Klaus Teuber, Larry Bond, Larry DiTillio, Legend of the Five Rings (collectible card game), Lunch Money (game), Lynn Willis, Marc Miller (game designer), Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares, Mayfair Games, MicroProse, Middle-earth Collectible Card Game, Middle-Earth Play-By-Mail, Mythos (card game), Origins Awards, Paul Lidberg, Pete Fenlon, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, R. Talsorian Games, Ral Partha Enterprises, Reaper Miniatures, Rick Priestley, Robert N. Charrette, Shadis, Shane Lacy Hensley, Six-Guns & Sorcery, Starship Command (play-by-mail game), Steve Barcia, ... Expand index (5 more) »
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Age of Renaissance

Age of Renaissance is a board game designed by Don Greenwood and Jared Scarborough and published by Avalon Hill in 1996.

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Alderac Entertainment Group

Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) is a publisher of family board game products.

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Andy Chambers

Andy Chambers (born 20 October 1966) is an English author and game designer best known for his work on over 30 Games Workshop rulebooks and sourcebooks.

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Atlas Games

Atlas Games is a company which publishes role-playing games, board games and card games.

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Avalon Hill

Avalon Hill Games Inc. is a game company that publishes wargames and strategic board games.

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BattleTech is a wargaming and military science fiction franchise launched by FASA Corporation in 1984, acquired by WizKids in 2001, which was in turn acquired by Topps in 2003; and published since 2007 by Catalyst Game Labs.

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Catan

Catan, previously known as The Settlers of Catan or simply Settlers, is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber.

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Chaosium

Chaosium Inc. is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford in 1975.

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Charlie Krank

Charlie Krank is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Clash of Arms

Clash of Arms Games is a wargaming company best known for a high level of graphics quality and moderately to highly complex games, often focusing on the Napoleonic era, but with offerings in most eras of military history.

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Cosmic Encounter

Cosmic Encounter is a science fiction–themed strategy board game designed by "Future Pastimes" (collectively, Peter Olotka, Jack Kittredge and Bill Eberle, with Bill Norton) and originally published by Eon Games in 1977.

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Darwin Bromley

Darwin Paul Bromley (October 23, 1950 – January 2, 2019) was an attorney and a game designer who had worked primarily on board games.

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Deadlands

Deadlands is a genre-mixing alternate history role-playing game which combines the Western and horror genres, with some steampunk elements.

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Editions of Dungeons & Dragons

Several different editions of the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game have been produced since 1974.

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Eon Products

Eon Products was an American game company that produced board games and game supplements.

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FASA

FASA Corporation was an American publisher of role-playing games, wargames and board games between 1980 and 2001, after which they closed publishing operations for several years, becoming an IP holding company under the name FASA Inc.

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Five Rings Publishing Group

The Five Rings Publishing Group (FRPG) was formed as a spin-out of Alderac Entertainment Group and ISOMEDIA.

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Game Designers' Workshop

Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) was a wargame and role-playing game publisher from 1973 to 1996.

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Games Workshop

Games Workshop Group (often abbreviated as GW) is a British manufacturer of miniature wargames, based in Nottingham, England.

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Gary Gygax

Ernest Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.

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Iron Crown Enterprises

Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) is a publishing company that has produced role playing, board, miniature, and collectible card games since 1980.

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Jean Rabe

Jean Rabe is an American journalist, editor, gamer and writer of fantasy and mystery.

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John Zinser (game designer)

John Zinser is an American game designer who has worked primarily on collectible card games and role-playing games.

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Klaus Teuber

Klaus Teuber (25 June 1952 – 1 April 2023) was a German board game designer best known as the creator of Catan.

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Larry Bond

Lawrence L. Bond (born June 11, 1951) is an American author and wargame designer.

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Larry DiTillio

Lawrence G. DiTillio (February 15, 1948 – March 16, 2019) was an American film, TV series, and tabletop role-playing game writer.

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Legend of the Five Rings (collectible card game)

Legend of the Five Rings (L5R) is an out-of-print collectible card game created by a joint venture featuring Alderac Entertainment Group and ISOMEDIA in 1995 and published until 2015, when it was announced that the game would be discontinued for a rules-incompatible successor that will be part of Fantasy Flight Games' Living Card Game line.

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Lunch Money (game)

Lunch Money is an elimination-style card game designed by C.E. Wiedman and released in May 1996 by Atlas Games.

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Lynn Willis

Lynn Willis (died January 18, 2013) was a wargame and role-playing game designer, best known for his work with Metagaming Concepts, Game Designers' Workshop (GDW), and Chaosium.

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Marc Miller (game designer)

Marc William Miller is a wargame and role-playing game designer and author.

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Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares

Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares is a 4X turn-based strategy game set in space, designed by Steve Barcia and Ken Burd, and developed by Simtex, who developed its predecessor Master of Orion and Master of Magic.

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Mayfair Games

Mayfair Games was an American publisher of board, card, and roleplaying games that also licensed Euro-style board games to publish them in English.

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MicroProse

MicroProse is an American video game publisher and developer founded by Bill Stealey, Sid Meier, and Andy Hollis in 1982.

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Middle-earth Collectible Card Game

Middle-earth Collectible Card Game (MECCG) is an out-of-print collectible card game released by Iron Crown Enterprises in late 1995.

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Middle-Earth Play-By-Mail

Middle-Earth Play-By-Mail (or Middle-earth PBM), is a turn-based, strategy play by email and play-by-mail game set in the world of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, including elements from ICE's Middle-earth Role Playing under licence, now run by GSI.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Origins_Award_winners

, The Complete Masks of Nyarlathotep, Traveller (role-playing game), TSR, Inc., Warhammer (game), Wooden Ships and Iron Men (1987 video game).

1996 Origins Award winners, the Glossary

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1996 awards

1996 awards in the United States

Origins Awards by year

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