 Despite the rise of the role-playing game industry in the United States and the U.K. during the 1980s, very few people in Poland under Communist rule were aware of the existence of role-playing games.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 in order to publish "Magia i Miecz" ("Magic and Sword"), a magazine that would be dedicated to role-playing games.Rodek and Darosław J. Toruń were the first editors.