Stephan Michael Sechi, Steven Cordovano and Vernie Taylor contributed $600 each to form the company Bard Games in 1982 to produce supplements for Dungeons & Dragons.
[1]: 172 Sechi and Cordovano wrote The Compleat Alchemist (1983) which was the first product the company published, and presented a magic-item maker character class.
[1]: 172 Sechi then wrote The Compleat Adventurer (1983) which included multiple class variants for thief and fighter characters, while Sechi and Taylor wrote The Compleat Spell Caster (1983) which included many class variants for magic-user characters.
[1]: 172 Sechi oversaw The Atlantis Trilogy, the next project for Bard Games, which was completed after three years with the three books released as The Arcanum (1984), The Lexicon (1985), and The Bestiary (1986).
[1]: 172 Sechi sold his Bard Games shares to Cordovano and left over personal and financial disagreements that came about after The Atlantis Trilogy was completed.