Wydawnictwo MAG founded in 1993 by Jacek Rodek, is a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 publishing house responsible for the first Polish publications concerning role-playing games. It has been known for publishing Magia i Miecz

Magia i Miecz

Magia i Miecz was the first RPG-oriented magazine in Poland. Started in 1993, it ceased publishing in 2002 after 103 issues....

, the first role-playing games-oriented magazine in Poland, which was one of the key contributors in popularising RPGs in Poland. It had released several translations of foreign role-playing games, such as Warhammer

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is a role-playing game set in the Warhammer Fantasy setting. Over the years, it has been through a number of phases and different publishers, most of which were related in some way to Games Workshop...

, Earthdawn

Earthdawn

Earthdawn is a fantasy role-playing game, originally produced by FASA in 1993. In 1999 it was licensed to Living Room Games, which produced the Second Edition...

 and Fading Suns

Fading Suns

Fading Suns is a science fiction space opera role-playing game published by Holistic Design. The setting was also used for a PC game , a live action role-playing game , and for a space combat miniature game .- Game setting :The action is set in a future medieval-analogue empire built on the remains...

, published Polish original RPGs

Polish role-playing games

Polish role-playing games have been in production since the early 1990s. Now there are several games that have been designed in Poland, as well as many translations on the market.- History :...

, such as Kryształy Czasu and Wiedźmin - Gra Wyobraźni, and tabletop game

Tabletop game

Tabletop game is a general term used to refer to board games, card games, dice games, miniatures wargames, tile-based games and other games that are normally played on a table or other flat surface...

s, most notably Doomtrooper

Doomtrooper

Doom Trooper is a collectible card game designed by Bryan Winter. It is based on concepts from the Mutant Chronicles franchise. Players use warriors to attack and gain either Promotion Points or Destiny Points. Promotion points can be used to win; Destiny Points are used to purchase more warriors...

 and Kult

Kult

Kult is a contemporary fantasy horror role-playing game originally designed by Gunilla Jonsson and Michael Petersén, first published in Sweden by Target Games in 1991. The first English edition was published in 1993 by Metropolis Ltd., a now defunct American publisher...

 collectible card games. Afterwards, it turned solely to fiction

Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...

. Currently, MAG is one of the leading publishers of science-fiction and fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 literature in Poland, focusing mainly on translations, but also it publishing books by well-known Polish writers, such as Feliks W. Kres

Feliks W. Kres

Feliks Wiktor Kres is a popular Polish fantasy writer. He debuted with his short story "Mag" , submitted to a writing contest of the Fantastyka magazine. Since then, he has published seven novels and dozens of short stories...

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