An online text-based role playing game is a role-playing game played online using a solely text-based interface.
 Online text-based role playing games date to 1978, with the creation of "MUD1", which began the MUD heritage that culminates in today's MMORPGs.
 Some online-text based role playing games are video games, but some are organized and played entirely by humans through text-based communication.
 Over the years, games have used TELNET, internet forums, IRC, email and social networking websites as their media.
Lewis Errol (Lew) Pulsipher (born January 22, 1951) is a teacher, game designer, and author, whose subject is role playing games, board games, card games, and video games.
 He was the first person in the North Carolina community college system to teach game design classes (fall 2004).
 He has designed half a dozen published boardgames, written more than 150 articles about games, contributed to several books about games, and presented at game conventions and conferences.
David Vincent Baker is a designer of tabletop role playing games and the owner of Lumpley Games which also hosts the archives of The Forge.
 His most notable games are "Dogs in the Vineyard" and "Apocalypse World".
 "Dogs in the Vineyard" was the 2004 Indie RPG Game of the Year and won the Innovation Award and was one of three games shortlisted for the 2004 Diana Jones Award and Most Innovative Game.
 "Apocalypse World" won Game of the Year, Best Support, and Most Innovative game at the 2010 Indie RPG Awards, and was 2011 RPG of the Year at both the Golden Geek Awards and Lucca Comics & Games.
Green Ronin Publishing is an American company based in Seattle, Washington.
 Founded in 2000 by Chris Pramas, they have published several role-playing game–related products.
 They have won several awards for their games including multiple Origins, ENnie, Pen & Paper, and Inquest Fan Awards.
A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying is a role-playing game published by Green Ronin Publishing in 2009.
The Guild of Blades Publishing Group produced their first RPG Game in 1997 called Dark Realms, which continues to be popular today.
 The company has since expanded to revolutionary computer games like 1483 Online as well as many Role Playing Games, Board Games and The Guild of Blades "Empires of History" series of historical board games.
 The company's founder is Ryan O. Johnson.
Ral Partha Enterprises, Inc. of Cincinnati, Ohio produces miniature figures in 25 mm, 30 mm, 15 mm, and 54 mm scale.
 The company was founded in 1975 and is now a division of Iron Wind Metals, LLC, a company created in 2001 around Ral Partha's manufacturing capacities.
 The company's products are made by spin-casting metal alloys which depict soldiers, adventurers and creatures that have been inspired by history and fiction.
 Their miniatures are sold at gaming conventions, in hobby shops, and by internet and mail order for use in role playing games, wargaming, dioramas, competitive painting, and collecting.
 The company began as a basement enterprise undertaken by a group of wargamers around the talents of Tom Meier, a 16-year-old sculptor.
 The company grew with the increasing popularity of board and role-playing games.
 By 1982 Ral Partha products were sold worldwide.
 Ral Partha is best known for its historical figures, "Fantasy Collector's" series, and miniatures produced for TSR, Inc.'s "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" and FASA's "BattleTech" games.
Ankama is a French entertainment company headquartered in Roubaix, France, focused on the design of Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games ("Dofus", "Dofus Arena" and "Wakfu").
 The company is also active in publishing, animation and Web development.
 It was founded by , and Emmanuel Darras.
 The company name comes from their own names : ANthony, KAmille, MAnu.
The Game Manufacturers Association (GAMA) is a non-profit trade association based in Columbus, Ohio, dedicated to the advancement of the non-electronic social games industry - Board/Tabletop Games, Miniatures Games, Card Games, Collectable/Tradeable Card Games, Role-Playing Games, and Live-Action Role Playing Games.
 Its members are game manufacturers, retailers, distributors, suppliers, conventions, clubs, and independent professionals related to the games industry.
GU Comics is a single panel webcomic written, drawn, and colored by William "Woody" Hearn.
 Established July 10, 2000 and launched August 15, 2000, GU is published, free, five times a week on its own web site.
 The comic focuses on a single video game such as World of Warcraft; but, it also comments on gaming industry and community news, often lampooning gamers in general through the adventures of Hearn and his fictional roommate, Ted, and occasionally parodies contemporary social, political, and personal issues related to the online and general video game world.
 In recent months Hearn has focused primarily on writing comics revolving around various pen-and-paper role playing games; it is unclear if Hearns actually takes part in these games or if he simply finds humor in D&D sourcebooks over PC MMO games.

Question: Who founded Green Ronan Publishing in 2000, known for it’s role playing games such as A Song Of Fire And Ice?
Answer: Chris Pramas