Atlas Games is a publisher of roleplaying games, card games and board games. Atlas Games was founded in 1990 by John Nephew, a former employee of Lion Rampant (later White Wolf). Nephew struck a deal with his former employers in which he sold them a printer in exchange for the license to publish official licensed material for their roleplaying game, Ars Magica. This deal lasted from 1990 to 1991, and yielded the licensed books Tales of the Dark Ages, Festival of the Damned and South of the Sun. Atlas Games also published Blood Nativity, a brief introductory adventure licensed for Vampire: The Masquerade, in 1991; this adventure was actually written by White Wolf staffers using pseudonyms.