Alderac Entertainment Group, or AEG, is a publisher of role-playing game

Role-playing game

A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...

 and collectible card game

Collectible card game

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 products. AEG was formed by Jolly Blackburn

Jolly Blackburn

Jolly Randall Blackburn is best known as the creator of the comic strip, Knights of the Dinner Table.-Biography:Jolly Blackburn majored in anthropology, history, and classical cultures in college...

 in 1993 and is based in the city of Ontario, California

Ontario, California

Ontario is a city located in San Bernardino County, California, United States, 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. Located in the western part of the Inland Empire region, it lies just east of the Los Angeles county line and is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area...

. Prior to getting into their current markets, AEG was involved in hobby gaming magazines, with their first product the magazine Shadis

Shadis

Shadis was an independent gaming magazine that published articles on role-playing games. Started by Jolly Blackburn, it began as an independent gaming fanzine in 1990, and was later transformed into a quality small-press magazine in 1993. Each issue contained a variety of articles covering many...

(winner of the 1994, 1995, and 1996 Origins Award

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 the 1979 awards were given at the 1980 Origins.The Origins Award is commonly...

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. More are slated for 2010.

Collectible card games

• 7th Sea Collectible Card Game (Multiple Origins Award winner)
• City of Heroes Collectible Card Game
  City of Heroes Collectible Card Game
  The City of Heroes Collectible Card Game is a trading card game based on the NCSoft MMORPG, City of Heroes. The card game was designed by David Williams, the designer responsible for other games such as Legend of the Five Rings. The initial product release from Alderac Entertainment Group was in...
  
  
• HumAliens
• Initial D
  Initial D
  is a manga by Shuichi Shigeno which has been serialized in Kodansha's Young Magazine since 1995. It has been adapted into a long-running anime series by OB Planning, Studio Comet, Studio Gallop, Pastel, and A.C.G.T, and a live action film by Avex and Media Asia...
  
  
• Legend of the Five Rings Collectible Card Game (Multiple Origins Award Winner)
• Legend of the Burning Sands
  Legend of the Burning Sands
  Legend of the Burning Sands is a collectible card game published by Five Rings Publishing Group in 1998. It was a spin-off from the earlier CCG Legend of the Five Rings...
  
  
• Spycraft Collectible Card Game
• Warlord: Saga of the Storm
  Warlord: Saga of the Storm
  Warlord: Saga of the Storm is a collectible card game designed by Kevin Millard and David Williams. It was produced by Alderac Entertainment Group since its introduction in 2001 until January 2008, when they announced they were ceasing its production...
  
  

Board games

• The Adventurers
• Arcana
• Infinite City
• Thunderstone
• Tomb
• Tomb: Cryptmaster
• Abandon Ship
• Monkey Lab
• Nightfall
  Nightfall
  Nightfall is the beginning of night .Nightfall may also refer to:-Novels, short stories, and comics:* Nightfall , an influential 1941 science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, later adapted into a radio program , novel , and two low-budget films of the same name* "Nightfall", a 1947 short story...
  
  
• Isle of Doctor Necreaux
• Rush N' Crush
• Straw
  Straw (card game)
  Straw is an arabian-nights-themed card game designed by Richard James and published by Alderac Entertainment Group in 2008, with artwork by Octographics...
  
  
• Myth: Pantheons
• Pressure Matrix

Role-playing games

• many d20 System
  D20 System
  The d20 System is a role-playing game system published in 2000 by Wizards of the Coast originally developed for the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons...
  
  Sourcebooks such as
  • Evil
  • Dungeons: A Guide to Survival in the Realms Below
  • Sundered Faith
• Brave New World
  Brave New World (role playing game)
  Brave New World is a role-playing game originally released by Pinnacle Entertainment Group in 1999. The game was later sold to Alderac Entertainment Group in 2000. The game is an alternate history superhero game set in a fascist United States of America living in a perpetual state of martial law...
  
  
• Farscape Roleplaying Game
• Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game (Origins Award winner)
• Shadowforce Archer
• Spycraft
  Spycraft
  Spycraft is a d20 and OGL-based role-playing game dealing with superspies and modern action. Originally published by the Alderac Entertainment Group, it is currently published under licence by Crafty Games.-History:...
  
  
• Stargate SG-1
• Swashbuckling Adventures (previously 7th Sea which won an Origins Award)
• Ultimate Toolbox
• Warlords of the Accordlands
• World's Largest Dungeon
  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...
  
  
• World's Largest City