Misfit Studios Publishing is a Canadian

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business located in

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, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 2003 by Steven Trustrum, the company publishes a number of

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products under limited and

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terms.

History

Misfit Studios Publishing's founder says he began the company "after not being paid for his freelance writing one too many times." According to popular online role-playing game retailer, RPGNow, Misfit Studios' first published product was the ''Barbarian Hawkeye'', in January 2005. According to its own online store, the company has since published over 150 role-playing game-related products of various sizes and prices. Christina Stiles worked as a freelancer with

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beginning in 2002 on a project called ''Odyssey Prime'' for her company, Bizarro Games; the game took years to complete, and by the time it was finally released four years later, Bizarro Games had merged into Misfit Studios, which released ''Odyssey Prime'' only in

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and POD. Eden Studios also released ''Enemies Archived'' (2006), a book of enemy encounters for ''

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'' produced in PDF and POD in conjunction with Misfit Studios. Misfit Studios supported the ''Spirosblaak'' (2005) setting from

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's ''Mythic Vistas'' series.

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