Tadashi Ehara
| Tadashi Ehara | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Tadashi Ehara is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Career
Tadashi Ehara, the buyer for the San Francisco game store Gambit, became the second employee of Chaosium.[1]:83 Different Worlds magazine was launched in 1979 by Ehara and Greg Stafford of Chaosium as a general-interest role-playing magazine.[2] Ehara became the first editor of Different Worlds, and remained editor-in-chief throughout the magazine's run.[1]:84 Ehara left Chaosium in 1985 and took Different Worlds with him, due to financial difficulties the company was having, and publishing resumed with Different Worlds #39 (May/June 1985) through Ehara's new partner, Sleuth Publications; only eight issues were published by Sleuth over a two-year period, ending with Different Worlds #46 (May/June 1987).[1]:84 Much of the Judges Guild inventory was sold to Ehara.[1]:69 Gamelords was sold to Ehara in 1986, and he received 10,000 pounds of backstock in 344 cartons on December 1, 1986.[1]:131-132 Ehara's last big acquisition while at Sleuth was a license to publish the original Empire of the Petal Throne game.[1]:89 Ehara withdrew from Sleuth, taking with him all the RPG products and properties he had acquired over the previous two years.[1]:89 Ehara then used Different Worlds as the basis of a new company, Different Worlds Publications, although he only put out one more issue of Different Worlds, #47 (Fall 1987).[1]:84 From 1987-1989, Ehara also published a reprint of Empire of the Petal Throne (1987), and a reprint of part of Gamescience's Swords & Glory (1987-1988), the second Tékumel RPG.[1]:89