Atlas Games

Atlas Games is an American tabletop-games publisher whose catalog encompasses role-playing games, board games, and card games. The company is identified with founder John Nephew, who also serves as its current president. Its publishing history includes the role-playing game On the Edge, a project that led to a significant early corporate and financing arrangement. When Atlas Games did not have sufficient funds to publish On the Edge in 1994, it partnered with Jerry Corrick and Bob Brynildson to establish a separate corporation, Trident, Inc., for the release. Atlas subsequently became subsumed into Trident, while Brynildson, Corrick, and their retail business, The Source Comics & Games, continued to provide business experience and industry perspective to Atlas. This relationship illustrates the role of specialist retailers and experienced hobby-game operators in supporting independent game publishers. In addition to game publishing, Atlas Games produced EdgeWork, a periodical connected with its game-publishing activities. The publication ran for four issues, adding an editorial and community-facing dimension to the company’s work beyond individual boxed games and game systems. The company’s published output is associated broadly with hobby gaming rather than with digital video games, and its principal audience consists of players, game groups, collectors, and tabletop role-playing communities. Publicly available reference material provides limited information about Atlas Games’ founding date, ownership structure, headquarters, financial performance, geographic distribution, and current product portfolio. Accordingly, these details cannot be stated reliably here. The available record does establish Atlas Games as a continuing tabletop publisher led by John Nephew, with activity spanning role-playing, board, and card games. Its history is particularly documented through the publication of On the Edge, the Trident arrangement, and the short-lived EdgeWork periodical.

Atlas Games is an American publisher focused on tabletop entertainment, including role-playing games, board games, and card games. The available historical record identifies John Nephew as the company’s founder and current president, but does not provide a verified founding year or a detailed account of its earliest operations. A documented turning point came in 1994, when Atlas Games sought to publish On the Edge but lacked the financial resources to do so independently. To make publication possible, Atlas partnered with Jerry Corrick and Bob Brynildson and formed a new corporation, Trident, Inc. The arrangement brought together the publisher’s creative and publishing activity with the partners’ financial and practical experience in the hobby-game business. Trident became the corporate vehicle for publishing On the Edge. Atlas was eventually subsumed into Trident. Although the corporate relationship changed, Corrick and Brynildson remained connected to the company’s development through their store, The Source Comics & Games. Their business experience and perspective continued to support Atlas Games. This episode is significant because it shows how independent tabletop publishers could rely on partnerships with specialty retailers and industry operators to finance and organize publication. Atlas Games also published EdgeWork, a periodical that appeared in four issues. The periodical extended the company’s role beyond game production by providing a recurring publication associated with its gaming activities. The available sources do not establish a longer run or a complete editorial history for EdgeWork. The reference material describes Atlas Games as a publisher of role-playing games, board games, and card games. It does not provide a complete chronological bibliography, ownership history, financial record, headquarters location, or detailed account of international operations. The company is nevertheless documented as an active tabletop-games brand, with John Nephew continuing as president and with On the Edge representing a specifically recorded publication milestone.

• 1994

  Trident, Inc. was formed to publish On the Edge

  [1]Atlas Gamesen.wikipedia.org

  Because Atlas Games lacked the finances to publish On the Edge independently, it partnered with Jerry Corrick and Bob Brynildson to create Trident, Inc. as the publishing corporation for the game.

• Atlas Games was subsumed into Trident

  [1]Atlas Gamesen.wikipedia.org

  Atlas Games was eventually incorporated into Trident, while the partners and The Source Comics & Games continued to contribute business experience and perspective.

• EdgeWork was published

  [1]Atlas Gamesen.wikipedia.org

  Atlas Games published the periodical EdgeWork, which ran for four issues.

Independent hobby-game publisher serving tabletop role-playing, board-game, and card-game audiences.

• Role-playing game · 1994

  On the Edge

  On the Edge is a role-playing game whose publication became a defining episode in Atlas Games’ early history. Atlas lacked the funds to publish it alone, so the company worked with Jerry Corrick and Bob Brynildson to establish Trident, Inc. as the publishing corporation. The game therefore represents both a published Atlas Games title and the occasion for a major corporate and financing partnership.

• Game periodical

  EdgeWork

  EdgeWork was a periodical published by Atlas Games. It ran for four issues and complemented the company’s tabletop-game publishing activity with a recurring publication format. Available reference material does not establish its complete editorial scope or publication dates beyond its four-issue run.

• 1994

  Created Trident, Inc. to finance and publish On the EdgeStrategy

  Background

  Atlas Games did not have sufficient finances to publish On the Edge on its own.

  Action taken

  Atlas partnered with Jerry Corrick and Bob Brynildson to form Trident, Inc., which served as the corporation publishing the game.

  Aftermath

  Atlas Games was eventually subsumed into Trident. Corrick and Brynildson, together with The Source Comics & Games, continued to support Atlas with business experience and industry perspective.

  Source

1. 1Atlas Gamesen.wikipedia.org