When did Archaea start?
— Go to Top In the fall of 1992, two people — Edmond Chang and Arthur King — set out to start a new, different, well-concieved fantasy live-action role-playing and wargaming game. After years of playing and enjoying other Maryland-based games like Darkon and Age of Steel/Tales of High Adventure (now defunct), both felt encouraged to create a game that focused on telling stories, character development, world building, and campaign-style adventures. By the end of the fall of 1992, after a few months of brainstorming, Ed Chang wrote up the first Archaea rulebook in three days. The first Archaea event, a weekend campout at Little Bennett Regional Park, took place in November 1992. Currently, the only active Archaea group plays in the Maryland/DC/Northern Virginia area. For a short time, there was a small Archaea group at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and a concurrent group in Maryland called Archaea Travels. Rumors, mainly via email from people visiting the web site, have come
