Tadashi Ehara
# Tadashi Ehara

Tadashi Ehara is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

## Career

Tadashi Ehara, the buyer for the San Francisco game store Gambit, became the second employee of $Chaosium.^{:83}$ Different Worlds magazine was launched in 1979 by Ehara and Greg Stafford of Chaosium as a general-interest role-playing magazine. Ehara became the first editor of Different Worlds, and remained editor-in-chief throughout the magazine's $run.^{:84}$ Ehara left Chaosium in 1985 and took Different Worlds with him, due to financial difficulties the company was having, and publishing resumed with Different Worlds #39 (May/June 1985) through Ehara's new partner, Sleuth Publications; only eight issues were published by Sleuth over a two-year period, ending with Different Worlds #46 (May/June $1987).^{:84}$ Much of the Judges Guild inventory was sold to $Ehara.^{:69}$ Gamelords was sold to Ehara in 1986, and he received 10,000 pounds of backstock in 344 cartons on December 1, $1986.^{:131–132}$ Ehara's last big acquisition while at Sleuth was a license to publish the original Empire of the Petal Throne $game.^{:89}$ Ehara withdrew from Sleuth, taking with him all the RPG products and properties he had acquired over the previous two $years.^{:89}$ Ehara then used Different Worlds as the basis of a new company, Different Worlds Publications, although he only put out one more issue of Different Worlds, #47 (Fall $1987).^{:84}$ From 1987-1989, Ehara also published a reprint of Empire of the Petal Throne (1987), and a reprint of part of Gamescience's Swords & Glory (1987-1988), the second Tékumel $RPG.^{:89}$

