Tom Jolly
Encyclopedia
Tom Jolly is a board game
inventor whose games include Wiz-War
, Gootmu, and Knots, Drakon, Cavetroll, Vortex
, Light Speed, Cargo
, Camelot
, Disk Wars
, WayWord, and Got It!. Of these Wiz-War is among the best known. The publisher of Wiz-War, Chessex
, has been promising a new edition "within a few months" since 2001, but as of January 2009 has yet to publish a new edition. The seventh, and last printed edition, came out in 1997. The eighth edition was recently announced by publisher Fantasy Flight Games, with a release date of 4th quarter of 2011
Board game
A board game is a game which involves counters or pieces being moved on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Games may be based on pure strategy, chance or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve...
inventor whose games include Wiz-War
Wiz-War
Wiz-War is a board game created by Tom Jolly and first published in 1985 through Jolly’s company, Jolly Games. It is described as a "beer and pretzels game"....
, Gootmu, and Knots, Drakon, Cavetroll, Vortex
Vortex
A vortex is a spinning, often turbulent,flow of fluid. Any spiral motion with closed streamlines is vortex flow. The motion of the fluid swirling rapidly around a center is called a vortex...
, Light Speed, Cargo
Cargo
Cargo is goods or produce transported, generally for commercial gain, by ship, aircraft, train, van or truck. In modern times, containers are used in most intermodal long-haul cargo transport.-Marine:...
, Camelot
Camelot
Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur's realm and a symbol of the Arthurian world...
, Disk Wars
Disk Wars
Disk Wars is a collectible fantasy tabletop miniature wargame designed primarily by Tom Jolly and Christian T. Petersen and first published in 1999 by Fantasy Flight Games....
, WayWord, and Got It!. Of these Wiz-War is among the best known. The publisher of Wiz-War, Chessex
Chessex
Chessex is an American company that manufactures and sells dice, primarily to the role-playing game market. It also offers other accessories of the kind used in role-playing games.- Skyrealms of Jorune :...
, has been promising a new edition "within a few months" since 2001, but as of January 2009 has yet to publish a new edition. The seventh, and last printed edition, came out in 1997. The eighth edition was recently announced by publisher Fantasy Flight Games, with a release date of 4th quarter of 2011