What is AED Publishing?
We are an independent and privately owned publishing company that focuses on the creation and distribution of character and story driven games. AED Publishing was founded by Stephen Koontz in 2022 with the goal of making novel tabletop roleplaying games that aspire to help that artform continue to evolve and give back to the community that had given so much to him.
Our Asperational Mission
The AED of AED Publishing is not an acronym, but an abbreviation of the Latin word aedificare, which means “to build up, to create, to edify”. That’s our purpose. At a time when so many things can tear us down, we’re trying to build each other up.
We believe art is what happens when a medium is both engaging and meaningful; such as storytelling, the craft of telling fiction in order to point at a greater truth.
We believe that collaborative storytelling (TTRPGs, LARPing, Improv, Co-writing) is as rich and worthy a medium as any other (novels, movies, television, stageplays).
Our aspirational goal is to tell stories that are so powerful they become art. In doing so, we share those stories and most importantly the tools, frameworks, systems, and settings that we used to create that art, so that others might benefit from our fumbling attempts.
We believe that creating and experiencing art is inherently meaningful. That meaning more than anything brings happiness. And so, by sharing our art and tools, in this small but earnest way, we strive to make the world around us a better place.
