As the industry grows, an older generation is emerging as historians of a time when board gaming was rudimentary and sometimes even clumsy. A host of games well past their prime fill people with wonderful feelings of nostalgia, even as newer gaming mechanics, themes, and interactions leave them agape in excitement and amazement. Yet, the path to the types of board games hitting the market now begins with those older titles.
DUNGEONS DRAGONS
Enter Restoration Games, the brainchild of lawyer-cum-publisher Justin Jacobson. “I’ve always been an avid gamer,” Jacobson begins. “I played all sorts of games when I was a kid, from the earliest editions of Dungeons & Dragons to the first wave of Euros to make it across the Atlantic.” Jacobson’s introduction to the industry side of things began with some D&D self-publishing.
However, it would be his frequent trips to Gen Con to offer legal advice to publishers and designers in question-and-answer seminars that coincidentally led to the formation of Restoration Games. “One year, a nice young woman came up to me and said that her husband was getting ready to leave Hasbro and had some questions. That was Lindsay Daviau...and that dinner ended up changing my life.”
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