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Alderac Entertainment Group, or AEG, is a publisher of
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board game Board games are tabletop games that typically use . These pieces are moved or placed on a pre-marked board (playing surface) and often include elements of table, card, role-playing, and miniatures games as well. Many board games feature a comp ...
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collectible card game A collectible card game (CCG), also called a trading card game (TCG) among other names, is a type of card game that mixes strategy game, strategic deck building elements with features of trading cards, introduced with ''Magic: The Gathering'' in ...
products. AEG was formed by
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in 1993 and is based in the city of
Ontario, California Ontario is a city in southwestern San Bernardino County in the U.S. state of California, east of downtown Los Angeles and west of downtown San Bernardino, the county seat. Located in the western part of the Inland Empire metropolitan area, ...
. Prior to getting into their current markets, AEG was involved in hobby gaming magazines, with their first product the magazine ''
Shadis ''Shadis'' is an independent gaming magazine that was published in 1990–1998 by Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG). It initially focused on role-playing games. Publication history Shadis was conceived and started by Jolly Blackburn as an indepen ...
'' (winner of the 1994, 1995, and 1996
Origins Award The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the game industry. They are presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair on an annual basis for the previous year, so (for example) the 1979 aw ...
s for ''Best Professional Gaming Magazine''). Including the three for ''Shadis'' mentioned above, AEG products have garnered eight Origins Awards (see the individual articles noted below for more details). In 2009, AEG entered the board games market with 10 new board game releases. Notable successes include Thunderstone and Smash Up.


Products


Collectible card games

* ''
7th Sea Collectible Card Game ''7th Sea'' is an out-of-print collectible card game (CCG) produced by Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG). It was released in August 1999. It is based on the '' 7th Sea'' tabletop role-playing game setting of Théah. Setting In the ''7th Sea ...
'' (Multiple Origins Award winner) * ''
City of Heroes Collectible Card Game The ''City of Heroes Collectible Card Game'' is an out-of-print trading card game based on the discontinued NCSoft MMORPG, City of Heroes. The card game was designed by David Williams, the designer responsible for other games such as Legend of ...
'' * ''
Doomtown Collectible Card Game Doomtown: Reloaded (originally ''Deadlands: Doomtown'') is an List of collectible card games#Non-collectible customizable card games, expandable card game based on the ''Deadlands'' role-playing game. It was originally a collectible card game tha ...
'' (Multiple Origins Award winner) * ''HumAliens'' * ''Initial D'' * ''
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 disconti ...
'' (Multiple Origins Award Winner) * ''
Legend of the Burning Sands ''Legend of the Burning Sands'' (''LBS'') is an out-of-print collectible card game (CCG) published by Five Rings Publishing Group (FRPG, then a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast) in July 1998 in games, 1998. It was a spin-off from the earlier CC ...
'' * ''Romance of the Nine Empires'' * ''Spycraft Collectible Card Game'' * '' Warlord: Saga of the Storm''


Board games

* ''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'' (standalone expansion) ** ''Smash Up: Goblins'' * Space Base * ''
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'' * ''Myth: Pantheons'' * ''Pressure Matrix'' * ''The Tempest Series of Games'' ** ''Courtier'' ** ''Mercante'' ** ''Dominare'' ** ''Love Letter'' * ''Pretense'' * ''War Chest'' ** ''War Chest: Nobility'' ** ''War Chest: Siege'' * ''Mariposas'' * ''Cat Lady''


Deck-building card games

* '' 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

* many '' d20 System'' Sourcebooks such as ** ''Evil'' ** ''Dungeons: A Guide to Survival in the Realms Below'' **''Sundered Faith'' * ''
Brave New World ''Brave New World'' is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarch ...
'' * '' Farscape Roleplaying Game'' * ''
Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game The ''Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game'' is a role-playing game originally written by John Wick and published by Alderac Entertainment Group, under license from Five Rings Publishing Group, in 1997. The game uses the Legend of the Five ...
'' (Origins Award winner) * ''Shadowforce Archer'' * ''
Spycraft Spycraft is a d20 and OGL-based role-playing game dealing with superspies and modern action. Originally published by the Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG), it is currently published under licence by Crafty Games. History Originally envisio ...
'' * ''
Stargate SG-1 ''Stargate SG-1'' (often stylized in all caps, or abbreviated ''SG-1'') is a military science fiction Adventure fiction, adventure television series within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate, ''Stargate'' franchise. The show, created by Brad Wrigh ...
'' * '' Swashbuckling Adventures'' (previously '' 7th Sea'' which won an Origins Award) * ''Ultimate Toolbox'' * ''Warlords of the Accordlands'' * ''
World's Largest Dungeon The World's Largest Dungeon is a ''Dungeons & Dragons'' adventure set entirely in an enormous dungeon. It is over 800 pages long and was produced by Alderac Entertainment Group in 2004. It also includes 16 full-color poster maps, making its singl ...
'' * ''World's Largest City''


Miniatures

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Clan War ''Clan War'' is a 1998 board game published by Alderac Entertainment Group. Gameplay ''Clan War'' is a game in which a miniatures game takes place in the fantasy setting of the ''Legend of the Five Rings''. Reception The online second version of ...
'' (''Legend of the Five Rings Miniature Combat'')


References


External links


AEG's official site
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