Tadashi Ehara worked as the buyer for the Gambit game store in San Francisco when he became the second employee of Chaosium.
[2] Ehara became the first editor of Different Worlds, and stayed on as the editor-in-chief for the entire run of the magazine.
[1]: 69 Ehara purchased Gamelords for Sleuth Publications in 1986, and on December 1, 1986 they sent him 10,000 pounds of backstock packed into 344 cartons.
[1]: 131–132 Ehara acquired a license to publish the Empire of the Petal Throne role-playing game through Sleuth.
[1]: 89 Ehara later withdrew from Sleuth after working with them for two years, taking all of the role-playing game products and properties he acquired in that time.