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Judges Guild is a game publisher that has been active since 1976. The company created and sold many role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related materials. During the late 1970s and early 1980s the company was one of the leading publishers of Dungeons & Dragons related materials. Its flagship product, City State of the Invincible Overlord, was the first published RPG supplement to feature a fully developed city environment. The supplement was followed closely by numerous ancillary cities, maps, and other materials published by Judges Guild.
History
Judges Guild was founded on July 4, 1976, utilizing concepts developed by co-founder Bob Bledsaw, in his home Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) campaign. Bledsaw, along with partner Bill Owen, travelled to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin to visit the headquarters of Tactical Studies Rules (TSR), publishers of Dungeons & Dragons, on July 17, 1976. Bledsaw and Owen had hoped to convince TSR to publish some of the materials they used in their D&D campaigns, as well as Owen's rules for a game set during the American Civil War. While at TSR, they met with D&D co-creator Dave Arneson, who gave Bledsaw and Owen verbal approval to produce some supplemental game materials (known as "play aids") for both Dungeons & Dragons and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D). At that time, TSR's only published play aids for D&D were the Dungeon Geomorphs, and the general feeling at TSR was that no one would be interested in supplemental materials. All materials were subject to review in order to maintain continuity within the game systems.
Owen subsequently left the partnership, and Judges Guild was incorporated in 1978. The company rapidly gained popularity amongst D&D fans for their prolific product line and then-unprecedented detail, at a time when such sources were rare. At its peak in the early 1980s, the firm employed 42 people and had over 250 products in print.
Even by that point, however, the company's fortunes were declining. Its production values were stagnant as the roleplaying games industry moved to professional typesetting, full color art, and slick and hardcovered material, elements Judges Guild was slow to adopt. Further, the Judges Guild fantasy RPG products—their biggest sellers—remained in their 1970s dungeoneering paradigm, replete with puns, dungeon gauntlets, and isolated cities in howling wildernesses, even as newer companies published more integrated products favoring the growing realism movement. Its license to publish Advanced Dungeons & Dragons materials lapsed in 1982. Judges Guild published City-State of Tarantis in 1983 to little notice, and the firm was on hiatus by 1985.
Subsequently, Gamescience published reprints of some of the Judges Guild adventures, while Mayfair Games obtained a publishing contract to produce a Mayfair City-State of the Invincible Overlord, which they repackaged in 1987 with many ill-received changes.
Historical products
The most popular products were the original City-State maps & book, Tegel Manor and Judge's Shield, a foldout three-page heavy stock compilation of monsters and rules (that were, at the time, scattered across numerous TSR rulebooks) for quick reference; the term became standard for all subsequent similar products industry-wide. The company also produced licensed products for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Traveller, Chivalry & Sorcery, DragonQuest, Empire of the Petal Throne, Tunnels and Trolls, RuneQuest, Superhero 2044 and Villains and Vigilantes. Judges Guild also produced some generic supplements, as well as two RPG magazines, The Dungeoneer and Pegasus.
Return
Judges Guild returned in 1999, selling revised copies of the City State of the Invincible Overlord, a reintroduction of Pegasus magazine that lasted two issues (#14 & #15), the Revised Treasury of Archaic Names, and an edited version of Dark Tower, in addition to classic original products; the company also produced products for the d20 System.
In 2002, Necromancer Games, under license and in cooperation with Bledsaw and other original Judges Guild writers published revised editions of the City State of the Invincible Overlord, the Player's Guide to the Wilderlands, the Wilderlands of High Fantasy compilation boxed set and a revised edition of Caverns of Thracia, all for use with the d20 System.
In 2006, Judges Guild announced that it licensed the Wilderlands of High Fantasy setting to James Mishler's Adventure Games Publishing, which would publish a variant campaign setting, the Wilderlands of High Adventure, as well as Wilderlands products compatible with the Necromancer Games edition, using the Castles & Crusades rules rather than the generic d20 System rules.
Also in 2006 Judges Guild licensed Goodman Games and Eostros Games to publish revised editions of The Thieves of Fortress Badabaskor, Citadel of Fire and Dark Tower, updated for the d20 System. They were all released in 2007.
Founder Bob Bledsaw died of cancer in 2008. The company was inherited by his son, Bob Bledsaw II. In 2011, Lost Man's Trail was published. This marked the first original product Judges Guild had produced in over 25 years. Lost Man's Trail was the last manuscript the elder Bob Bledsaw worked on before his death.
In 2014 Judges Guild and Goodman Games partnered to release deluxe hardback editions of the original Judges Guild products, including accompanying pages from The Judges Guild Journal.
See also
List of Judges Guild publications
References
External links
"Adventure Games Publishing". Archived from the original on January 9, 2007. Official Adventure Games Publishing website
Judges Guild Booty List
Judges' Guild Codex version info and collectors value for older Judges Guild publications
Judges Guild Product list by type with cover pictures.
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11 Feb 2020 · Judges Guild has been around since 1976, producing products compatible with Dungeons & Dragons; the current owner, Bob Bledsaw II, is the son of its co-founder, Bob Bledsaw, and has run the company since 2008.
19 Apr 2003 · Judges Guild Players' Guide Nearing GenCon Release Our first Judges Guild product, the Players' Guide to the Wilderlands, an introduction to the famous Judges Guild campaign setting, is approaching completion and seems to be on track for an August release, with a limited number of GenCon special edition copies available at GenCon.
19 Mar 2022 · Goodman Games will match 20% of the proceeds of this title with donations: 10% to the Anti Defamation League and 10% to GLAAD. The funds that would have been used for a Judges Guild licensing fee will be included in this donation, as requested by Bob Bledsaw Jr. After this final volume, we have no plans to release future Judges Guild titles.
03 Jan 2022 · From Jennell Jaquays facebook. Goodman games working away on the Judges Guild history book volume two. Goodman games recently received some unbound advance samples of the components that will be used for the second volume of Judges Guild history books. This is a sample of the cover of the...
01 Jan 2002 · Judges Guild/Necromancer Games, 288pp US$34.99 Introduction The City State of the Invincible Overlord (CSIO) is an updated version of the original city supplement for D&D, which was first released by Judges Guild in 1977.
12 Nov 2005 · There are players and judges maps, support documents and adventures available from the Judges Guild website. Overall I think this is the best campaign setting I have seen published, ever, including such good ones for previous editions such as Al-Qadim, Mystara, etc. Highly recommended. I give it a 9.5 out of 10 rounding to 5 stars.
01 Jan 2002 · Judges Guild/Necromancer Games. 128pp pb Understandably this review is not based on play testing as this is a sourcebook rather than a scenario. So its finally arrived. The long awaited release of Judges Guild material updated for 3.5 has started with the Players Guide to the Wilderlands.
06 Jul 2023 · Back in the day, Judges Guild had a lot of home brew rules found in the City-State of the Invincible Overlord and other supplements. Later when they lost their D&D license they came up with a set of abbreviations call the Universal System. The Acaeum (a D&D collector site) has a nice summary here.
11 Agu 2004 · By the way, these arent d20 reprints. These are the original, classic products--including many products that are simply impossible to find in print or that command $50 on ebay. Average price for Judges Guild products on DTRPG is $2.00 to $3.00, by the way. Clark
27 Mar 2021 · Goodman Games has acquired Dark Tower from the Judges’ Guild, and will republish it in fully converted 5E and DCC RPG editions later this year. Director of Product Development Chris Doyle will lead the conversion to 5E, and original Dark Tower creator Jennell Jaquays will be included in design work on the new edition.
