Chessex

Chessex Manufacturing is an American company that sells dice, primarily for the role-playing game (RPG) and collectible card game (CCG) market. It also offers other accessories used in RPGs and CCGs. The company also has a Chessex Europe branch office.

Chessex was also a distributor and publisher of tabletop games—RPGs, CCG, miniature wargames, board games, and related merchandise—until October 1998 when they merged distribution with The Armory to form Alliance Game Distributors.

Games published

• (1995) collectible card game.
• Skyrealms of Jorune (1984–1994) role-playing game.
• Wiz-War (1993-2010) A board game originally self published by Tom Jolly starting in 1985, Chessex published the 4th through 7th editions of the game and a single expansion. While they continued to have rights to the game until 2010 the game was sold out and unavailable shortly after 2000.

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