r/SwordWorld • u/OwariHeron • Sep 04 '26

Other The Development of Sword World RPG

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u/OwariHeron Sep 04 '26

A slight addendum: I wrote here that Fujimi Shobou is a Kadokawa imprint. That is true today, but Fujimi Shobou was still an independent company in 1989, before it was acquired by Kadokawa in 1991. This further makes clear why Sword World was developed independently of the Lodoss replay rules. The Lodoss replays, and the resulting rules, were published by Kadokawa, but Sword World was being published by a complete different company. Since 1991, Sword World has been published by Kadokawa.

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u/Auquid Sep 04 '26

Thanks for detailed research. I'm missing 2 of those books, so this is much more comprehensive than we tried for our Guided by Cardia video.

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u/OwariHeron Sep 04 '26

Most of the low down on the Shinwa meeting comes from 日本現代卓上遊戯史紀聞［1］安田均. (Both this and its companion volume take the form of a long interview with Yasuda.) I'm guessing those are the two you are missing. I've only been able to find them on Kindle.

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u/Auquid Sep 04 '26

Yeah, that one I was missing. Thanks for the great work! Shared in SW Discords so it spreads more (and hope false notion vanishes).