Alderac Entertainment Group

Alderac Entertainment Group, or AEG, is a publisher of role-playing game, board game, and collectible card game products. AEG was formed by Jolly Blackburn in 1993 and is based in the city of Ontario, California. Prior to getting into their current markets, AEG was involved in hobby gaming magazines, with their first product the magazine Shadis (winner of the 1994, 1995, and 1996 Origins Awards 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).

AEG's house system is the 'roll and keep' mechanic, but possibly their greatest contribution to role-playing systems is the concept of 'Action Dice' – these are additional dice awarded to a player for ideas, good role-playing or just amusing the GM; which may be rolled (and thus expended) to improve the player's chance of success when making any die roll.

In 2009, AEG entered the board games market with 10 new board game releases. Notable successes include Thunderstone and Smash Up.

Collectible card games

 * 7th Sea Collectible Card Game (Multiple Origins Award winner)
 * City of Heroes Collectible Card Game
 * Doomtown Collectible Card Game (Multiple Origins Award winner)
 * HumAliens
 * Initial D
 * Legend of the Five Rings Collectible Card Game (Multiple Origins Award Winner)
 * Legend of the Burning Sands
 * "Romance of the Nine Empires"
 * Spycraft Collectible Card Game
 * Warlord: Saga of the Storm

Board games

 * The Adventurers
 * Arcana
 * Infinite City
 * Tomb
 * Tomb: Cryptmaster
 * Abandon Ship
 * Monkey Lab
 * Isle of Doctor Necreaux
 * Rush N' Crush
 * Smash Up
 * Smash Up: Awesome Level 9000
 * Smash Up: The Obligatory Cthulu Set
 * Straw
 * Myth: Pantheons
 * Pressure Matrix
 * Tempest: Courtier
 * Tempest: Mercante
 * Tempest: Dominare
 * Tempest: Love Letter

Deck-building card games

 * Thunderstone
 * Nightfall

Role-playing games

 * many d20 System Sourcebooks such as
 * Evil
 * Dungeons: A Guide to Survival in the Realms Below
 * Sundered Faith
 * Brave New World
 * Farscape Roleplaying Game
 * Legend of the Five Rings Role-Playing Game (Origins Award winner)
 * Shadowforce Archer
 * Spycraft
 * 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 City

Miniatures

 * Clan War (Legend of the Five Rings Miniature Combat)