Following the fall of Communist rule, Jacek Rodek, the editor-in-chief of Fantaskya, a monthly magazine dedicated to fantasy and science fiction, founded the publishing company Wydawnictwo MAG[1] in order to publish Magia i Miecz (Magic and Sword), a magazine that would be dedicated to role-playing games.
Due to a lack of published role-playing games in Poland at the time, the first six issues of the magazine focussed on Kryształy Czasu (Crystals of Time), an unpublished Polish RPG created by Artur Szyndler.
Magia i Miecz's monthly circulation of 20,000[3] indicated there was an audience for RPGs in Poland, so MAG acquired the Polish-language licenses for several popular British and American role-playing games, including: MAG released Polish-language editions of several tabletop games, notably Doomtrooper, and the Kult collectible card game (CCG), and also published some original Polish RPGs such as Wiedźmin - Gra Wyobraźni (The Witcher: A Game of Imagination), based on a series of novels and short stories written by Andrzej Sapkowski.
[3] MAG stopped publishing the magazine, and pivoted from role-playing games to books,[4] specializing in science-fiction, horror and fantasy, children's literature and contemporary fiction, primarily translations of popular English-language novels.
[5] Its long-running Uczta Wyobraźni (Feast of the Imagination) series, started in 2006, features over 60 works by authors such as Ian McDonald, William Gibson, Christopher Priest, Susannah Clarke, and Bruce Sterling.