GEMP

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GEMP (from Gempukku) is a browser rules engine for customizable card games with server-adjudicated play.[1][2] Marcin Sciesinski created it in 2011.[3][4][2] The first public table was for The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game.[5] Troy Biesterfeld forked Star Wars CCG from GEMP in 2013.[6] The Players Committee hosts a Star Wars CCG table at gemp.starwarsccg.org.[7][8] The table at play.swccg.com is an independent table that descends from a copy of the Players Committee GEMP.[9][10][2]

Players used Holotable for online play before GEMP.

Name

GEMP is short for Gempukku, the coming-of-age ceremony in Legend of the Five Rings.[2][3] The name is a play on Apprentice, a Magic: The Gathering online client.[2]

Origin

On 9 August 2011, Sciesinski proposed a browser client for The Lord of the Rings TCG on the Last Homely House forums.[3] He had written the first client for playing Legend of the Five Rings online, named Gempukku.[3] The first public beta of Gemp-LotR opened on 17 September 2011 at gempukku.com/gemp-lotr.[5]

Lord of the Rings TCG

LOTR TCG GEMP is hosted by the Player's Council at play.lotrtcgpc.net.[1][11] Christian McCarty is the maintainer of LOTR TCG GEMP.[12][1] The Player's Council About page says the Star Wars Players Committee uses the same software.[13]

Star Wars CCG

Players Committee GEMP

On 29 August 2013, Biesterfeld posted that he had started a project based on Gemp-LotR for Star Wars CCG.[6] The first table ran at tlbiesterfeld.servegame.com/gemp-swccg.[6] In June 2018 he stepped away, and the Players Committee took over management.[14] The Players Committee table is at gemp.starwarsccg.org/gemp-swccg/.[7] On 1 September 2020 the Players Committee announced that GEMP source code was on GitHub.[15][8]

play.swccg.com

play.swccg.com is an independent Star Wars CCG table.[16][9] It descends from a copy of the Players Committee GEMP.[10][9] Championship tables load Decipher and Players Committee cards. Fan products stay in isolated formats; see Custom formats. Planned work, including further Anything Goes rules and a True Sabacc game mode, is listed on GEMP planned features.

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 PlayersCouncil/gemp-lotr, GitHub (README). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 LOTR TCG & SWCCG: A Brief History of GEMP, BillBisco2 (10 May 2026). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 LotRO TCG - like server/client, what do you think?, MarcinS, The Last Homely House (9 August 2011). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
  4. ↑ MarcinSc, GitHub API (name field: Marcin Sciesinski). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gemp-LotR enters public beta, MarcinS, The Last Homely House (17 September 2011). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gemp-Swccg (online play with rule enforcement), Tbiesty, Star Wars CCG Players Committee Forums (29 August 2013). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gemp-Swccg, gemp.starwarsccg.org. Preserved copy: Internet Archive
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 PlayersCommittee/gemp-swccg-public, GitHub. Preserved copy: Internet Archive
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 billbisco/swccg-gemp, GitHub (README: independent GEMP server; Players Committee version of GEMP at starwarsccg.org). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Personal communication from Bill Bisco, 23 October 2026 (play.swccg.com descends from a copy of the Players Committee GEMP).
  11. ↑ play.lotrtcgpc.net/gemp-lotr/. Preserved copy: Internet Archive
  12. ↑ User:Teltura, LOTR-TCG Wiki (Maintainer of GEMP). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
  13. ↑ About the Player's Council, lotrtcgpc.net (the Star Wars PC uses the same software). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
  14. ↑ GEMP Announcements & Request for Applications for New Team, starwarsccg.org (7 June 2018; Wayback, 28 November 2020)
  15. ↑ Gemp Open Source Project, Star Wars CCG Players Committee Forums (1 September 2020). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
  16. ↑ play.swccg.com. Preserved copy: Internet Archive
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