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	Peter Adkison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter Adkison is a game developer, one of the founders of game companies Wizards of the Coast and Hidden City Games.
		Peter Adkison is the current owner of Gen Con.
		Adkison is a long time fan of role-playing games in general and Dungeons and Dragons specifically.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Adkison (236 words)

	Wizards of the Coast
		Peter D. Adkison is the founder of Wizards of the Coast Inc., a multimillion-dollar game company headquartered in Renton, Washington.
		Adkison's vision for Wizards of the Coast was to establish games as a fun entertainment choice for people of all ages.
		Adkison received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Walla Walla College in 1985 and, in 1997, earned his MBA from the University of Washington.
	ww2.wizards.com /Company/?doc=Founder (277 words)

	Special Guest Peter Adkison \| KublaCon
		Peter Adkison has been an avid gamer all his life.
		Peter's early educational background was as a graduate of Walla Walla College in 1985 with a BS in Computer Science.
		Peter really values this as a great opportunity to get "back in the game," in a small company environment, serving an industry he truly loves.
	www.kublacon.com /guests/sg_peter.html (273 words)

	Wizards Books
		Peter Archer: The project began in a meeting about two years ago, in which I thought it would be a neat idea to do some sort of retrospective on DandD.
		Peter: I think some of the inside details that Peter Adkison and Ed Stark provide about the purchase of TSR by Wizards of the Coast will be news to long-time fans.
		Peter and Ed spoke to some of the main people who were involved in the purchase of TSR.
	ww2.wizards.com /books/Wizards/default.aspx?doc=main_30years (2171 words)

	GameSpy.com - Article
		Adkison sold his company to Hasbro a few years ago but wasn't content to sit on gaming's sidelines for long.
		Peter Adkison: I bought Gen Con in May of 2002.
		Peter Adkison: There were definitely people who were concerned about the move.
	archive.gamespy.com /articles/july03/gencon2003/adkison (564 words)

	Meeting Peter Adkison at GenCon 2004 :: GamingReport.com :: Where Gamers get their News
		Peter was glad to discuss his insights into the management of cons, the current aims of his organization, and some of the history of GenCon under his stewardship.
		Peter estimated it costs around $1.25 million to run a show, with a possible return double that.
		Peter's aim is to have two to four general gaming conventions per year in North America, although he is still trying to find what the market will bear.
	www.gamingreport.com /article.php?sid=13981 (590 words)

	Wizards of the Coast - Dungeons & Dragons - Celebrity Game Table
		Peter currently serves as Dungeon Master for two groups in his own long-active campaign – Chaldea-- and also runs games at Gen Con, UK Gen Con, and other special events.
		Peter runs two groups through the paces on Ilboria, but with drastically different sets of circumstances.
		Peter's second group of Ilborian adventurers found themselves brought into a strange situation against their will, but they're making the most out of it.
	www.wizards.com /dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/cg/cg20010525a (1065 words)

	Alpha, Beta, Unlimited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Wizards of the Coast was a small publisher of roleplaying games, operating on a shoestring budget out of Peter Adkison’s basement.
		Peter liked the games but the company couldn’t afford to produce it (later it would be made and called Roborally).
		Peter and company introduced the game on a month-long tour of game stores across th4e country to do demos and sell cards.
	www.angelfire.com /ga/eltsite/abu.html (425 words)

	Ancient Influence - Peter Adkison Comments on the Jyhad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Peter took a few moments out of his busy day to discuss the tumultuous history of V:TES.
		Peter Adkison: The crazy thing then was having no idea how "legitimate" the TCG category would become.
		Adkison: If White Wolf gets its event submissions in on time, yes, it will be in the main TCG hall.
	www.vtesinla.org /articleAdkison.htm (1344 words)

	10/02/95 ZERO TO $50 MILLION: NOW THAT'S MAGIC
		Peter Adkison, Wizards' 33-year-old founder and chief executive, hopes to do even better, thanks to an arsenal of new products that capitalize on Magic's appeal.
		Adkison outlined his idea for a game using playing cards instead of a cumbersome game board.
		And that has stirred speculation within the game industry that Adkison may be tempted to sell out to a manufacturer with the resources to finance a broader marketing push.
	www.businessweek.com /@@Ey56gGcQN3jdfQYA/1995/40/b3444137.htm (1486 words)

	Peter Adkison Responds to My Open Letter About GenCon Registration - Treasure Tables
		Peter Adkison has responded to my open letter, Peter Adkison Hates Us: An Open Letter About GenCon Registration — and to the concerns of a lot of GenCon-goers.
		Since Peter responded on the GenCon forums, I’m going to join in that discussion rather than fragment things by responding to his response here.
		Peter’s response thread (which is quite large) is here: Peter Adkison Doesn’t Hate All Of You — Just 86 Of You!
	www.treasuretables.org /2006/06/peter-adkison-responds-to-my-open-letter (2116 words)

	Hidden City Games \| Bios
		Peter D. Adkison was the founder of Wizards of the Coast and served as its CEO until January 2001.
		During his later years at Boeing, Caluori managed the group under which Peter Adkison and John Jordan served and was eventually invited by Adkison to sit on the Wizards of the Coast board of directors.
		When Adkison left Wizards, Caluori was appointed CEO and served until his departure in 2002, during which time Wizards revenue climbed to over eight hundred million dollars annually.
	www.hiddencitygames.com /staff_bios.php (1900 words)

	LADYDRAGON.COM - Hidden City Games(TM) Announces International License Agreement with Game Publisher conceptcard
		Under Adkison's leadership, Wizards of the Coast created an entirely new genre of games with the release of the world's first trading card game, Magic: The Gathering, which was published in 13 languages and is loved by millions of players worldwide.
		Adkison grew Wizards to a multimillion-dollar company before selling it to Hasbro in 1999 for nearly $500 million.
		Conceptcard was founded by principals Gitte Braendgaard, Poul Villadsen and Peter Andersen, each of whom hold the title of director.
	www.ladydragon.com /news2006/100606h.html (679 words)

	The Escapist - Trading (Web) Cards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		While I waited with him in line for an event at Noreascon Two, the World Science Fiction Convention in Boston, Peter Olotka, co-designer of the brilliant Cosmic Encounter boardgame, described a notion for a game that players might play while, for instance, waiting in line at a convention.
		In 1992, long after I blithely abandoned this 12-year headstart, Peter Adkison met at a convention with Richard Garfield.
		Adkison was a former Boeing engineer who had cashed in some stock to start his own little game company; Garfield was an amateur game designer and doctoral candidate in combinatory math at the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.escapistmagazine.com /issue/65/4 (339 words)

	Peter Adkison Open Letter on Gen Con Indy :: GamingReport.com :: Where Gamers get their News
		We received the following open letter from Peter Adkison in regards to Gen Con Indy a tipster of ours had received.
		Peter Adkison Open Letter on Gen Con Indy
		Peter, when you are going to expose computers to the Internet in an open venue, you need two things loaded on them all: an anti-virus program and a firewall, hardware or software.
	www.gamingreport.com /article.php?sid=9515 (2984 words)

	OgreCave.com: Live from GenCon '05: Jesper Myrfors and Peter Adkison on Clout Fantasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Peter said there were indeed plans for different themes for Clout.
		Peter mentioned that they were looking into purchasing licenses and that some of these themes might target a younger audience.
		Peter was quick to say that he really liked the competitive aspect of Clout Fantasy, but saw it as more of a game that one would play with a bunch of buddies over beer and pretzels.
	www.ogrecave.com /archives/004263.shtml (591 words)

	Salon.com Technology \| Death to the Minotaur
		Wizards blazed a trail through corporate culture that turned old notions of professionalism and workplace community on their head in the pursuit of a Utopian ideal where geeks would be rich, be cool and get laid.
		Once a humble Boeing aerospace drone, Peter founded Wizards in 1990 to publish "The Primal Order," a role-playing game book intended as a generic add-on to whatever game you were already playing.
		Peter wrote much of the book himself and assembled a coterie of enthusiastic, aspiring young professionals to bring it to market in their spare time.
	archive.salon.com /tech/feature/2001/03/23/wizards/index.html (806 words)

	Famous Five Minute Interview with Peter Adkison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Peter - Well we have been well received and we are expanding so much here.
		Peter - No, they are clubs and groups that wanted to be here but didn't want a booth.
		Peter - No just my wife and a cat.
	www.dwarventavern.net /interview-peter-adkison.htm (127 words)

	The Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The winner of the first annual Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming is Peter Adkison, founder of Wizards of the Coast.
		Adkison left Wizards of the Coast at the end of 2000, but keeps in contact with game-designers at the company and continues to play DandD in ongoing campaigns around the world.
		He is an accomplished businessman but he is also a gamer, and much of the success of WotC has come from his continuing passion for games and his understanding of what makes them work.
	www.dianajonesaward.org /01winner.html (330 words)

	MetroActive \| Sonoma Independent \| Magic
		Based just outside of Seattle, WOTC won't comment on the actual sales figures, though CEO Peter Adkison will concede that they've sold over 1 billion cards since Magic premiered in August of 1993, when they issued their first cards, hoping for a six month run of sales.
		With the balloons behind his desk just beginning to fade from a birthday celebration a few days before, Peter Adkison is the 34-year-old CEO of a mulitmillion-dollar international corporation that has seen its employee base grow from five to 250 in two years.
		Adkison's expressions fight one another behind his glasses as he speaks, appearing one minute the sweet-faced computer nerd he once was, and in a flash possessing the suavity and bridged-fingertip authority of a man in his situation.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/11.09.95/magic.html (3354 words)

	Hasbro to Acquire Wizards of the Coast (SKIRMISHER Articles)
		Privately-held Wizards of the Coast was founded in 1990 by Peter D. Adkison, and is best known for Magic: The Gathering, the world’s all-time best-selling trading card game.
		Shareholders owning over two-thirds of the Wizards of the Coast outstanding shares, representing more than the required minimum approval, have agreed to vote their shares in favor of this merger at the shareholders’ meeting which is expected to take place on or about September 30, 1999.
		Peter Adkison and his senior management team will continue to run Wizards of the Coast, which will remain based just outside of Seattle.
	www.skirmisher.com /hasbro-2.htm (663 words)

	Visiting TSR
		Peter is shorter than me, but lots of people are.
		Peter didn't love it from a business stand point; this was a man who wanted to use it himself.
		Peter was eating as much ketchup as burger.
	www.highprogrammer.com /alan/rants/tsr.html (2836 words)

	The Guild Companion: Press Release: Peter Buys GenCon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Peter Adkison, founder and former president of Wizards of the Coast, is set to take over the hosting and managing of the GenCon Game Fair in 2002.
		Wizards of the Coast has successfully run the game fair since 1998 and will continue to provide full events management support for the gaming convention this year.
		GenCon for me is the best four days of gaming," said Peter Adkison.
	www.guildcompanion.com /scrolls/2002/apr/adkison.html (345 words)

	The sanzoku game at GenCon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Peter was quick on his feet and really "got" the whole feel for the game, and largely defined it.
		I'll agree with Jason that my conversation with Peter on the way to the restaurant was the brilliant moment of the game, followed by Jason and Peter's antics of trying to banish the demon.
		Whoever the metaperson is out there who's playing Peter Adkison in the cosmic game we're acting out used a bunch of saved up karma points and I was able to deliver some amazing funny lines based on not understanding Jake's lines, yet still advancing the plot.
	www.indie-rpgs.com /forum/index.php?t=3051 (3971 words)

	Beware of Magic: The Gathering
		As it turned out, Peter Adkison and his "basement" company, Wizards of the Coast, had driven all the way from Renton, Washington to introduce Magic: The Gathering™.
		You might say Adkison is a preacher's kid because his father was an Army chaplain.
		Peter was not interested but said, "he really saw a need for a game that could be played quickly with minimal equipment, a game that would go over well at conventions." (2/4) He suggested the concept for a fantasy card game and asked Garfield if he thought he could develop the game.
	www.logosresourcepages.org /Occult/magic-g.htm (2746 words)

	Pyramid: Pyramid Pick: The Primal Order
		Peter Adkison's The Primal Order (TPO hereafter), published by Wizards of the Coast, revels in religion.
		Adkison (the president of Wizards of the Coast) seems to have avoiding the delusion that most startup company president/chief writers suffer -- "My work doesn't really need editing or proofreading, I've caught all the mistakes.'' This is high-quality work, folks.
		This is another of those great sections that should be handed to every GM who finds herself wondering what challenges to throw at those 1,000+ point characters.
	www.sjgames.com /pyramid/sample.html?id=330 (1311 words)

	The Gaming Outpost: Interview: Peter Adkison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I'm Peter Adkison, founder and CEO of Wizards of the Coast.
		Unknown Stranger: I'm Peter Adkison, founder and CEO of Wizards of the Coast.
		While my preference is simply to be called "Peter," I don't really care what people call me, as long as they don't call me late for meals.
	www.gamingoutpost.com /articles/unregistered_author/47/interview_peter... (990 words)

	Sam Sylver - Project 1
		When Peter Adkison, then CEO of the fledgling Wizards of the Coast games company, met Richard Garfield, then a graduate student who would become a mathematics professor, it was to discuss Garfield's new board game RoboRally.
		Adkison was not very keen on the idea, as board games are expensive to produce and difficult to market.
		Adkison immediately saw the potential of the game and agreed to produce it.
	www.rit.edu /~scs4006/imm/project1/intro.html (4069 words)

	Peter Adkison Hates Us: An Open Letter About GenCon Registration » 9rules Featured (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Peter Adkison Hates Us: An Open Letter About GenCon Registration
		It’s rarely straightforward requiring you to fill out copious forms and wait for tickets to arrive, but dodgy servers, massive queues and overbooked venues events and you have a recipe for frustration.
		Martin, from Treasure Tables, has finally had enough and has written an open letter to Peter Adkison about the GenCon registration process.
	9rules.com /en/browse/featured/archive/90 (177 words)

	Gen Con Indy draws huge crowd - Gaming Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gen Con, LLC CEO Peter Adkison was awarded the Key to the City of Indianapolis on Thursday night by Chief Deputy Mayor Michael O'Connor.
		Gen Con's youngest volunteer started their trek into the world in the trading card game hall where mom was volunteering.
		Says Adkison, "We took a look at where Gen Con attendees were coming from and noticed there is a large contingent that comes in from the west coast.
	www.gaming-age.com /news/2003/8/1-2 (398 words)

	Dragon*Con Biography: [Vince Caluori]
		Upon graduation, Caluori began a 37-year career in the aerospace industry, including 34 years with Boeing, where he met Peter Adkison.
		During his tenure at Boeing, Caluori established himself as one of the company's leading rocket scientists and worked as the flight radiance manager on the famed Apollo 8 mission, which was the first manned spacecraft to leave Earth's gravity and reach the moon.
		Three years later, in April 1997, Caluori started working at the corporate office full time as an executive vice president, reporting directly to Wizards of the Coast's chief executive officer, Peter Adkison.
	www.dragoncon.org /people/caluorv.html (271 words)

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