Atlantis: The Lost World
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Atlantis: The Lost World is a 1988 role-playing game supplement published by Bard Games for Atlantis.
Atlantis: The Lost World is a supplement in which a campaign setting is presented that compiles information from The Lexicon and The Bestiary, along with additional new material.[1]
Publication history
Atlantis: The Lost World was written by Stephan Michael Sechi, Vernie Taylor, Ed Mortimer, and J. Andrew Keith, with a cover by P.D. Breeding-Black and published by Bard Games in 1989 as a 280-page book.[1]
Shannon Appelcline noted that "The first edition of Talislanta was published on a shoe-string budget but it was sufficiently successful to allow Bard Games to retrench and expand. Sechi was thus able to collect his Atlantis setting material into a new sourcebook, Atlantis: The Lost Worlds (1988) and shortly afterward could publish a second edition of the Talislanta game in the Talislanta Handbook & Campaign Guide (1989)."[2]: 173 Appelcline noted dropping sales numbers on further publications however, and stated that "Another, bigger problem was caused by Atlantis: The Lost World, that last legacy of the company's earlier days. A buyer from Waldenbooks who was not too familiar with RPGs decided to place a huge order for the book. Sechi was reluctant to fill it but eventually did. About a year later many of the books were returned, forcing Bard Games to refund about $20,000. That was the death knell of the company."[2]: 173
References
- 1 2 Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 124. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
- 1 2 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.