Editing Fantasy Games Unlimited

{{Short description|Tabletop role-playing game publisher}}
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| headquarters = [[Jericho, New York]]
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'''Fantasy Games Unlimited''' ('''FGU''') is a [[publishing]] house for [[tabletop game|tabletop]] and [[role-playing game]]s. The company has no in-house design teams and relies on submitted material from outside talent.<ref name="noble">{{cite web |url=http://www.nobleknight.com/ViewProdLine.asp_Q_ManufacturerID_E_32_A_CategoryID_E_12_A_GenreID_E_0 |title=Fantasy Games Unlimited |access-date=2007-09-13 |publisher=Noble Knight Games}}</ref>

==History==
Founded in the summer of 1975  in [[Jericho, New York]]<ref name="NY State Entity Information"/> 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, Inc.|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.<ref name="dw">{{cite magazine|last=Kraft|first=Rudy | date=August–September 1979 |title=Games to Gold: Selling Your Game Design|magazine=[[Different Worlds]]|publisher=[[Chaosium]]|issue=4|pages=3–4}}</ref> 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.<ref name=dw /> 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 dozens of role-playing games.

Fantasy Games Unlimited won the All Time Best Ancient Medieval Rules for 1979 [[Origins Award|H.G. Wells Award]] at Origins 1980 for ''[[Chivalry & Sorcery]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.originsgamefair.com/awards/1979/list-of-winners |title=Charles S. Roberts/H.G. Wells Awards 1979 (List of Winners) |access-date=2007-09-13 |publisher=Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415213102/http://www.originsgamefair.com/awards/1979/list-of-winners |archive-date=2008-04-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1991, Fantasy Games Unlimited Inc. was dissolved as a New York corporation.<ref name="NY State Entity Information">{{cite web |url=https://appext20.dos.ny.gov/corp_public/CORPSEARCH.ENTITY_INFORMATION?p_token=2A2092156AC90B35F1E8F59B878AA3C9D3CBEDDBA14E49B5772951F9FF8D411EF8AEA9F1F2BA30AC9B0420C75AA8E1BA&p_nameid=AA3A02402C183EAC&p_corpid=406F1C42D7602888&p_captcha=16187&p_captcha_check=2A2092156AC90B35F1E8F59B878AA3C9D3CBEDDBA14E49B5772951F9FF8D411EE98047C5CF8E94BF540797E0B92DFF08&p_entity_name=Fantasy%20Games%20Unlimited&p_name_type=%25&p_search_type=BEGINS&p_srch_results_page=0 |title=Selected Entity Name: FANTASY GAMES UNLIMITED INC. |date=July 10, 1975 |work=Division of Corporations: Entity Information |publisher=NYS Department of State |access-date=May 6, 2018}}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fantasygamesunlimited.net/page9.html |title=FGU Submission Guidelines |access-date=2010-05-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031192421/http://www.fantasygamesunlimited.net/page9.html |archive-date=2010-10-31 }}</ref>

==Publications==
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* ''[[Aftermath!]]''
* ''[[Archworld]]'' (1977)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25161/archworld | title=Archworld (1977) | access-date=June 12, 2012}}</ref>
* ''Bireme & Galley'' (1978) <ref>{{cite web | url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18789/bireme-galley | title=Bireme & Galley | access-date=February 22, 2021}}</ref>
* ''Blue Light Manual''
* ''Broadsword''
* ''[[Bunnies & Burrows]]''
* ''[[Bushido (role-playing game)|Bushido]]''
* ''Castle Plans''
* ''[[Chivalry & Sorcery]]''<ref name=tresca2010>{{citation | first1=Michael J. | last1=Tresca | title=The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games | publisher=McFarland | year=2010 | isbn=978-0786458950 | page=63 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8H8bzqj6S4sC&pg=PA63 }}</ref> (1st & 2nd editions)
* ''[[Citadel (board game)|Citadel]]''
* ''[[Daredevils (role-playing game)|Daredevils]]''
* ''[[Diadem (board game)|Diadem]]''
* ''[[Down Styphon!]]''
* ''Fire, Hack & Run''
* ''[[Flash Gordon & the Warriors of Mongo]]''
* ''[[Flashing Blades]]''
* ''Frederick the Great''<ref>[http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/10309 Frederick the Great | BoardGameGeek<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* ''[[Freedom Fighters (role-playing game)|Freedom Fighters]]''
* ''Galactic Conquest''
* ''[[Gangster!]]''
* ''Gladiators''
* ''[[Land of the Rising Sun (role-playing game)|Land of the Rising Sun]]''
* ''[[Lands of Adventure]]''
* ''Legion''
* ''Lords & Wizards''
* ''Madame Guillotine''
* ''[[Merc (role-playing game)|Merc]]''
* ''Mercenary''
* ''[[Middle Sea (game)|Middle Sea]]''
* ''[[Odysseus (role-playing game)|Odysseus]]''
* ''[[Oregon Trail (board game)|Oregon Trail]]''
* ''[[Other Suns]]''
* ''Pieces of Eight''
* ''[[Privateers & Gentlemen]]''
* ''[[Psi World (role-playing game)|Psi World]]''
* ''Royal Armies of the Hyborean Age''
* ''[[Skull and Crossbones: Roleplay on the Spanish Main]]''
* ''[[Space Marines (wargame)|Space Marines]]''
* ''[[Space Opera (game)|Space Opera]]''
* ''Star Explorer''
* ''[[Starship: The Game of Space Contact]]''
* ''[[Starships & Spacemen]]'' (now owned by Goblinoid Games)
* ''[[Swordbearer (role-playing game)|Swordbearer]]''
* ''The Blue-Light Manual''
* ''Towers for Tyrants''
* Treasure of the Lost Temple
* ''Tyrannosaurus wrecks''
* ''[[Villains and Vigilantes]]''
* ''[[War of the Ring: The Game of Middle Earth|War of the Ring]]''
* ''War of the Sky Cities''
* ''Wargaming magazine''
* ''[[Wild West (role-playing game)|Wild West]]''
* ''[[Year of the Phoenix]]''
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.fantasygamesunlimited.net}}
* [http://www.space-opera.net/mirror/fgu/default.htm Mirror of the old official FGU site]
* [http://www.space-opera.net/GB/interviews/scott.htm Interview] with [[Scott Bizar]]

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