How Much Money Does Peter D. Adkison Make? Latest Peter D. Adkison Net Worth Income Salary

The creator and first CEO of Wizards of the Coast (1993 to 2001), Peter D. Adkison is also a professional hobby game player who has worked in the industry for over two decades. Adkison guided Wizards of the Coast to the position of a significant publisher in the hobby gaming business during his time there. Wizards of the Coast gained astronomical success with the development of Magic: the Gathering, which was the first game in the collectable card game genre. It also marketed the Pokémon trading cards and, subsequently, purchased the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, publishing a successful new version of the game after the acquisition. Adkison is the current proprietor of Gen Con, a large annual gaming conference in the Midwest that he founded in 1989. Adkison sold Wizards of the Coast to Hasbro in January 2001 for an undisclosed sum. 

Adkison has been a long-time lover of role-playing games, and he has become a champion for independent role-playing games. His personal game design work includes The Primal Order, a “capstone system” that may be used with a variety of other role-playing games, as well as a number of other projects.

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