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Fantasy Games Unlimited

Tabletop role-playing game publisher

Field	Value
name	Fantasy Games Unlimited
image	Fantasy games unlimited.gif
founded
founder	Scott Bizar
country	United States
headquarters	Jericho, New York
genre	Games

Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU) is a publishing house for tabletop and role-playing games. The company has no in-house design teams and relies on submitted material from outside talent.

History

Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU) was founded in the summer of 1975 in Jericho, New York by Scott Bizar, the company's first publications were the wargames Gladiators and Royal Armies of the Hyborean Age. Upon the appearance and popularity of Dungeons & Dragons from TSR, the company turned its attentions to role-playing games, seeking and producing systems from amateurs and freelancers, paying them 10% of the gross receipts. FGU also copyrighted their games in the name of the designer so that the designer would receive any additional royalties for licensed figurines and other uses. Rather than focusing on one line and supporting it with supplements, FGU produced a stream of new games. Because of the disparate authors, the rules systems were incompatible. FGU Incorporated published many role-playing games.

FGU won the All Time Best Ancient Medieval Rules for 1979 H.G. Wells Award at Origins 1980 for Chivalry & Sorcery.

In 1991, Fantasy Games Unlimited Inc. was dissolved as a New York corporation. Bizar continues to publish in Arizona as a sole proprietorship called Fantasy Games Unlimited.

A new FGU website appeared in July 2006 offering the company's back catalog. It said that new products would be "coming soon". New Aftermath! products appeared in 2008. By 2010, much of the company's back catalog was available. At that time, FGU sought submissions for new adventures for their existing titles, primarily Aftermath!, Space Opera, and Villains and Vigilantes.

Publications

Aftermath!
Archworld (1977)
Bireme & Galley (1978)
Blue Light Manual
Broadsword
Bunnies & Burrows
Bushido
Castle Plans
Chivalry & Sorcery (1st & 2nd editions)
Citadel
Daredevils
Diadem
Down Styphon!
Fire, Hack & Run
Flash Gordon & the Warriors of Mongo
Flashing Blades
Frederick the Great
Freedom Fighters
Galactic Conquest
Gangster!
Gladiators
Land of the Rising Sun
Lands of Adventure
Legion
Lords & Wizards
Madame Guillotine
Merc
Mercenary
Middle Sea
Odysseus
Oregon Trail
Other Suns
Pieces of Eight
Privateers & Gentlemen
Psi World
Royal Armies of the Hyborean Age
Skull and Crossbones: Roleplay on the Spanish Main
Space Marines
Space Opera
Star Explorer
Starship: The Game of Space Contact
Starships & Spacemen (now owned by Goblinoid Games)
Swordbearer
The Blue-Light Manual
Towers for Tyrants
Treasure of the Lost Temple
Tyrannosaurus wrecks
Villains and Vigilantes
War of the Ring
War of the Sky Cities
Wargaming magazine
Wild West
Year of the Phoenix

References

"Fantasy Games Unlimited". Noble Knight Games.
Kraft, Rudy. (August–September 1979). "Games to Gold: Selling Your Game Design". [[Chaosium]].
"Charles S. Roberts/H.G. Wells Awards 1979 (List of Winners)". Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design.
(July 10, 1975). "Selected Entity Name: FANTASY GAMES UNLIMITED INC.". NYS Department of State.
"FGU Submission Guidelines".
Baylis, Chris. (May 1983). "none". TSR Hobbies (UK) Ltd..
"Archworld (1977)".
"Bireme & Galley".
Jackson, Steve. (February–March 1977). "Reviews". [[Metagaming Concepts.
(2010). "The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games". McFarland.
"Frederick the Great: Wargame Rules for the 7 Years War".
Schick, Lawrence. (1991). "Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games". Prometheus Books.

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