

In April 2007, Ulisses Spiele assumed the TDE pen-and-paper licence from Fantasy Productions. The trademark Realms of Arkania was owned by the now-defunct Sir-tech Software, Inc., which spurred the name change to The Dark Eye Fantasy Productions was unable to obtain the trademark.


Īventuria, the continent on which the game is set, was first introduced to the English-language market through a series of computer games and novels and later under the name Realms of Arkania. The fifth edition of the game was released in August 2015, with an English translation released in November 2016. The basic rules of the fourth edition of The Dark Eye were published in 2001, and it became the first edition to be released in English in October 2003. Since the game's launch, it has gone through five editions, making the rules and background more complex. Many years of work on the game have led to a detailed and extensively described game world.ĭroemer Knaur dropped the project in early 1989 after the bankruptcy of the Schmidt Spiel & Freizeit GmbH in 1997, publishing was continued by Fantasy Productions (which had already done all the editorial work). It is the most successful role-playing game on the German market, outselling Dungeons & Dragons. "The Black Eye") is a German tabletop role-playing game with a high fantasy theme created by Ulrich Kiesow and launched by Schmidt Spiel & Freizeit GmbH and Droemer Knaur Verlag in 1984. The Dark Eye (German: Das Schwarze Auge, lit. The first English edition of RPG rules was published in 2003. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.įirst released in English as Realms of Arkania ( novels and role-playing video games only) from 1993–1997.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.

