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Target Games was a Swedish publisher of role-playing games active from 1980 until the year 1999 when they went into bankruptcy proceedings. Until the mid-1990s they published their Swedish roleplaying games under the brand name Äventyrsspel (meaning "adventure games").
They published much of their early material in the form of stapled books in G5 (169 × 239 mm) format in a box together with dice. Until the mid-1990s Target Games published their Swedish role-playing games under the brand name Äventyrsspel (meaning "adventure games").
Äventyrsspel released the role-playing games Drakar och Demoner (1982), Mutant (1984) (with the later versions Mutant (1989), Mutant RYMD (1992) and Mutant Chronicles, Kult (1991), Chock (1985, a translation of Chill), Sagan om Ringen (1986, a translation of Middle-earth Role Playing) and Stjärnornas Krig (1988, a translation of the WEG Star Wars role-playing game). Target Games also published the miniature wargames Warzone and Chronopia, and several collectible card games including Doomtrooper.
They also released three generic sourcebooks, Grymkäfts fällor (1987) (translated from the classic game supplement Grimtooth's Traps), Stadsintermezzon (1988) and Skattkammaren (1988) as well as many adventures and sourcebooks for their games. Target Games was reconstructed in 1999 and ceased publication of all of its inventory and the intellectual property rights were transferred to the daughter company Paradox Entertainment, which later became an independent company. Some of the titles have since been licensed to new game companies.
Beside role-playing games, the company had its own store chain named Tradition, a trade magazine named Sinkadus, published translated gamebooks (the Lone Wolf series among others) as well as publishing family board games (under the Casper trademark) and translated fantasy novels (beginning with a Conan the Barbarian book). Target Games also published at least three computer games (including one Drakar och Demoner game) before reconstruction.
The fantasy role-playing Drakar och Demoner (first edition published in 1982) was Äventyrsspel's best-selling series of games. The first editions were basically a translation into Swedish of Steve Perrin's Basic Role-Playing (BRP). The various Äventyrsspel editions of the game all remained fundamentally BRP system games.The earlier editions did not include any campaign setting except for some information about generic fantasy creatures and so on. Over time, different writers created the "Ereb Altor" campaign setting piecemeal in adventures and source books. For the fifth edition, released in 1994, a new setting was created, dubbed "Chronopia", that had a darker tone.
Today the Drakar och Demoner brand is owned by Swedish company Free League Publishing.
The name Mutant was used for a series of related science fiction themed role-playing games. The 1984 version was set in a post-apocalyptic world similar to the one in Gamma World. Mutant 2 (1986) was an expansion module with more advanced rules. The 1989 version was a cyberpunk game while the later Mutant RYMD (1992) and Mutant Chronicles (first edition 1993) were science fantasy games set in the Solar System. These versions used variants of the same Basic Role-Playing rule system used in Drakar och Demoner.
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Target Games
Target Games was a Swedish publisher of role-playing games active from 1980 until the year 1999 when they went into bankruptcy proceedings. Until the mid-1990s they published their Swedish roleplaying games under the brand name Äventyrsspel (meaning "adventure games").
They published much of their early material in the form of stapled books in G5 (169 × 239 mm) format in a box together with dice. Until the mid-1990s Target Games published their Swedish role-playing games under the brand name Äventyrsspel (meaning "adventure games").
Äventyrsspel released the role-playing games Drakar och Demoner (1982), Mutant (1984) (with the later versions Mutant (1989), Mutant RYMD (1992) and Mutant Chronicles, Kult (1991), Chock (1985, a translation of Chill), Sagan om Ringen (1986, a translation of Middle-earth Role Playing) and Stjärnornas Krig (1988, a translation of the WEG Star Wars role-playing game). Target Games also published the miniature wargames Warzone and Chronopia, and several collectible card games including Doomtrooper.
They also released three generic sourcebooks, Grymkäfts fällor (1987) (translated from the classic game supplement Grimtooth's Traps), Stadsintermezzon (1988) and Skattkammaren (1988) as well as many adventures and sourcebooks for their games. Target Games was reconstructed in 1999 and ceased publication of all of its inventory and the intellectual property rights were transferred to the daughter company Paradox Entertainment, which later became an independent company. Some of the titles have since been licensed to new game companies.
Beside role-playing games, the company had its own store chain named Tradition, a trade magazine named Sinkadus, published translated gamebooks (the Lone Wolf series among others) as well as publishing family board games (under the Casper trademark) and translated fantasy novels (beginning with a Conan the Barbarian book). Target Games also published at least three computer games (including one Drakar och Demoner game) before reconstruction.
The fantasy role-playing Drakar och Demoner (first edition published in 1982) was Äventyrsspel's best-selling series of games. The first editions were basically a translation into Swedish of Steve Perrin's Basic Role-Playing (BRP). The various Äventyrsspel editions of the game all remained fundamentally BRP system games.The earlier editions did not include any campaign setting except for some information about generic fantasy creatures and so on. Over time, different writers created the "Ereb Altor" campaign setting piecemeal in adventures and source books. For the fifth edition, released in 1994, a new setting was created, dubbed "Chronopia", that had a darker tone.
Today the Drakar och Demoner brand is owned by Swedish company Free League Publishing.
The name Mutant was used for a series of related science fiction themed role-playing games. The 1984 version was set in a post-apocalyptic world similar to the one in Gamma World. Mutant 2 (1986) was an expansion module with more advanced rules. The 1989 version was a cyberpunk game while the later Mutant RYMD (1992) and Mutant Chronicles (first edition 1993) were science fantasy games set in the Solar System. These versions used variants of the same Basic Role-Playing rule system used in Drakar och Demoner.