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as they had originally envisioned them, now called "Castle Dunfalcon". Gygax and Kuntz's new game would be called "Infinite Adventures", and was envisioned as a multigenre RPG supported by different gamebooks for different genres. However, New Infinities' investors forced the company into bankruptcy,
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helped form New Infinities Productions, Inc. Wargamer and accountant Forrest Baker had worked as a consultant for TSR during 1984 and 1985, and wrote up a business plan that convinced Gygax to try again with the business side of roleplaying; New Infinities was the results, with Baker as CEO and Gygax
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were design executives and with Gygax formed the creative committee. Before a single product was released, Baker disappeared when his promised outside investment of one to two million dollars failed to come through. In February 1987,
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as part of his severance agreement with TSR, so he licensed Greyhawk from TSR and started writing new novels beginning with
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Gygax's first role-playing game work for New Infinities (with Mohan and Mentzer) was the science fiction-themed RPG
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was brought on as the new CEO of New Infinities. Gygax had retained the rights to
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as chairman of the board. In October 1986, the company was publicly announced.
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Index

New Infinities
role-playing games
TSR
Gary Gygax
Frank Mentzer
Kim Mohan
Don Turnbull
Gord the Rogue
Berkley Books
Cyborg Commando
RPGA
Jefferson P. Swycaffer
Traveller
City of Greyhawk
The Boston Globe
ISSN
0743-1791
ProQuest
294411624










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