Archive Miniatures & Game Systems

One of the first fantasy role-playing games (RPGs) to be published after the appearance of Dungeons & Dragons in 1974 was White Bear and Red Moon, a fantasy RPG set in the world of Glorantha, created by Chaosium of Oakland, California in 1975.

[2]: 323 In his 2014 book Designers & Dragons: The '70s, Shannon Appelcline noted that "Soon some of the counters from White Bear and Red Moon such as the darkness witch Cragspider and the centaur Ironhoof were represented in lead.

Tolkien's Middle Earth, Chaosium's Runequest, TSR's Dungeons & Dragons, Lucasfilm's Star Wars, and Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone.

"[2]: 323 By 1981, Archive had moved to San Mateo, and were advertising a "Monster-of-the-Month Club" in the pages of Dragon.

[1] In the April–May 1978 edition of White Dwarf (Issue #6), John Norris was impressed by Archive's Middle Earth line, saying, "The monsters are ideal for a DM using figures, and the Middle Earth range is a source of fine, if rather large, personality figures.