Gamelords

Gamelords

Industry	Tabletop role-playing games
Founded	1980 in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
Founders	Kerry Lloyd Richard Meyer Janet Trautvetter Michael Watkins
Owner	Tadashi Ehara

Gamelords was an American game company that produced tabletop role-playing games and game supplements.

History

Kerry Lloyd founded the company, with three friends - Richard Meyer, Janet Trautvetter, and Michael Watkins in 1980.[1]: 129  Gamelords was centered in Gaithersburg, Maryland.[1]: 130  Gamelords published the role-playing game Thieves' Guild in 1980.[2] Looking to produce more group-oriented products for The Fantasy Trip, Howard M. Thompson of Metagaming Concepts signed an agreement in 1982 with Gamelords to create a campaign world for the game, but he terminated the agreement after only two campaign books were published.[1]

When FASA ended its support of Traveller, William H. Keith, Jr. and J. Andrew Keith moved their Traveller writing to Gamelords.[1]: 120  The Keith brothers wrote seven Traveller supplements for Gamelords, including The Mountain Environment (1983), The Undersea Environment (1983), and The Desert Environment (1984).[1]: 131 

Gamelords was sold to Tadashi Ehara in 1986.[1]: 131–132 

Publications

• Duel Arcane (1980)
• The Compleat Tavern (1981)
• The Phantastical Phantasmagorical Montie Haul Dungeon (1982)

Thieves Guild

see Thieves Guild Publications

Traveller

• Lee's Guide to Interstellar Adventure (1983)
• The Mountain Environment (1983)
• The Drenslaar Quest (1983)
• The Undersea Environment (1983)
• Ascent To Anekthor (1984)
• Startown Liberty (1984)
• The Desert Environment (1984)
• Duneraiders (1984)
• A Pilot's Guide to the Drexilthar Subsector (1984)
• Wanted: Adventurers (1984)

References

1. Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
2. "Game:Thieves' Guild - Gamelords, Ltd". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 2020-03-10.