| Printing History of Judges Guild |
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| Year | Month | Notes | Product Name | Printing | Sources |
| 1975 | pre-Dec |
Prior to the
GE closing, Bob, Bill Owen and Marc Summerlot proposed a
venture in the War Gaming field. That went nowhere, though, for the
time being. |
Bob Bledsaw | ||
| 1975 | Dec |
Bob
got laid off when General Electric closed its factory. |
Bob Bledsaw | ||
| 1976 | Winter-Spring |
Tac Cards typeset through the winter and spring of early 1976 and they
may have been pasted up during the summer. |
Tac Cards | 1st | Bill Owen |
| 1976 | Apr |
Bob
decided to try again on a "less ambitious scale". Marc didn't
want in at the time, but Bill decided to jump in on it. |
Bob Bledsaw |
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| 1976 | Jul |
Bob
and Bill went to visit TSR. The two of them needed a Guild to belong to
so they started it on the 4th (ed-1 year before this Judges Guild fan was
born). Judges
Guild was thus incorporated. |
Bob Bledsaw | ||
| 1976 | Summer |
CSIO map redrawn with just pen and ink. |
CSIO Map | 1st | Bill Owen |
| 1976 | Aug20-GenCon |
With $200 investment we bought 4 print runs of the giant
City State of the Invincible Overlord map.
(34"x44" total size, we couldn't afford printing the map that size and so
it was actually 4 17"x22") If people wanted the
maps unfolded, Bill offered to give them to them rolled from the trunk
of his Mustang. |
CSIO Map | 1st | Bob and Bill |
| 1976 | Aug21-GenCon |
Bob
got there on Saturday, got a table, and they started selling even more
CSIO maps.
People were wondering about the details of the places on the map. |
CSIO Map | 1st | Bob and Bill |
| 1976 | Aug21-GenCon |
Because so many people were asking about the City State, Bob figured
they could make more money by selling the details as well, so he came up
with the idea of the subscription service. He started selling subs
to the City State at the show on Saturday. They sold about 40 to 50 subs at
Gen Con. |
Initial Subscription | Bob and Bill | |
| 1976 | Aug |
Then,
after the show, Bob went home and started writing Booklet I, he did most
of the writing, while Bill handled the printing. |
Booklet I | 1st | Bob Bledsaw |
| 1976 | Sept-Oct |
*Reduced sized CSIO printed |
1st | ||
| CSIO Players map created | CSIO Players map | 1st | Bill Owen | ||
| Ready Ref sheets created | Ready Ref sheets | 1st | Bill Owen | ||
| Guidelines Booklet I created | Guidelines Booklet I | 1st | Bill Owen | ||
| Dungeon Levels I1-5 created | Dungeon Levels I1-5 | 1st | Bill Owen | ||
| CSIO Players Map, RR sheets, Booklet I, Dungeon Levels I1-5 printed | #3-8 | 1st | Bill Owen | ||
| Tac Cards printed and collated | Tac Cards | 1st | Bill Owen | ||
| Journal I written and printed | Journal I | 1st | Bill Owen | ||
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| 1987 | Mayfair release, Not apart of the Judges Guild Universe | City State of the Invincible Overlord Box Set | 1st | ||
| 1989 | Jul | Gamescience release at Origins | The Original Tegel Manor, Revised and Expanded | 1st | |
| 1989 | Gamescience release | The Original Tegel Manor, Revised and Expanded | 2nd | ||
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| 2001 | Mar | QuickLink/RPG Realms d20 release | Treasury of Archaic Names | 1st | |
| 2001 | May | QuickLink/RPG Realms d20 release | Dark Tower | 1st | |
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| 2003 | Necromancer Games d20 release | Player's Guide to the Wilderlands | 1st | ||
| 2004 | Necromancer Games d20 release | The Caverns of Thracia | 1st | ||
| 2004 | Necromancer Games d20 release | City State of the Invincible Overlord | 1st | ||
| 2005 | Necromancer Games d20 release | Wilderlands of High Fantasy Box Set | 1st | ||
| 2007 | Feb | Eostros Games/Goodman Games d20 release | Thieves of Fortress Badabaskor | 1st | |
| 2008 | Apr 19 | Bob Bledsaw passes away | |||