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   CEO, Owner of Gen Con. Peter D. Adkison [1] is an American game designer and businessman who is the founder of Wizards of the Coast, where he held the role of CEO from 1993 to 2001. During Adkison's tenure, Wizards of the Coast rose to the status of a major publisher in the hobby game industry.

2. www.cgmagonline.com › interviews › peter-adkisonPeter Adkison: The Architect of Modern Gaming - CGMagazine

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   Jan 20, 2024 · See our ethics statement. Discover the journey of Peter Adkison, the founder of Wizards of the Coast, and his insights on the evolution of Magic: The Gathering and the gaming industry.

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   Is Adkison a game designer?

   • As a longtime fan of role-playing games (RPGs), Adkison has become an advocate for indie RPGs. His own game design work includes The Primal Order, a "capstone system" for use with any of a number of different role-playing games . As a child, Adkison enjoyed playing strategy games and war games.

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   What are Peter Adkison's favorite games?

   • His favorite games have been Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering. Peter Adkison is a game designer who has been an avid gamer his entire life. He is most famous as a founder and former CEO of Wizards of the Coast and owner of the Gen Con Game Fair. He graduated from Walla Walla College in 1985 with a BS in computer science.

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   Who is Peter Adkison?

   • As of 2005, Adkison is the CEO of Hidden City Games, publishers of the Bella Sara collectible card game for girls. As of 2013, he has started a production company known as Hostile Work Environment LLC. In 1999, Pyramid magazine named Peter Adkison as one of The Millennium's Most Influential Persons "at least in the realm of adventure gaming".

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   Does Peter Adkison love online gaming?

   • Peter Adkison: Well, I love it, to be honest with you. I mean, I can go online and play games and support my channel at the same time. Perfect. It’s awesome. Our jobs don’t suck, do they?

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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wizards_of_the_CoastWizards of the Coast - Wikipedia

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   Wizards of the Coast (WotC) was founded by Peter Adkison in 1990 outside Seattle, Washington, and its current headquarters is located in nearby Renton. The company was named after a guild of wizards in a role-playing game (RPG) Adkison was playing.

5. www.wikiwand.com › en › Peter_AdkisonPeter Adkison - Wikiwand

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   Peter D. Adkison is an American game designer and businessman who is the founder of Wizards of the Coast, where he held the role of CEO from 1993 to 2001.

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7. www.newyorker.com › culture › culture-deskThe Twenty-Five-Year Journey of Magic: The Gathering

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   Aug 28, 2018 · It wasn’t until 1991, when a friend put him in touch with a gaming entrepreneur named Peter Adkison, that Garfield, by then finishing a Ph.D. in combinatorial mathematics at Penn, thought he ...

8. boardgamegeek.com › boardgamedesigner › 14826Peter Adkison | Board Game Designer | BoardGameGeek

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   Peter Adkison is a game designer who has been an avid gamer his entire life. He is most famous as a founder and former CEO of Wizards of the Coast and owner of the Gen Con Game Fair. He graduated from Walla Walla College in 1985 with a BS in computer science. He worked for Boeing for 6 years as a systems analyst.