Vintage Ad: 1980 Do-It-Yourself Edition
Early in 1980, TSR Hobbies circulated a slender booklet containing graphics and copy for hobby stores to reuse when advertising…
A Forgotten Variant: The X-Fragments
Gary Gygax explicitly called the Guidon Dungeons & Dragons document the "first draft" of the game in a cover letter.…
D&D in the News (1976): You’re either a Fighter, Magic-user, Cleric, or Thief
If anything could draw the attention of the mainstream press of 1976 to an obscure pastime like Dungeons & Dragons, it…
War of the Empires (1969), Gygax’s Space Conquest Campaign
Two years before Chainmail was released, and a year before there was a Castle & Crusade Society, Gary Gygax was…
Vintage Ad: Does Your Shop Sell Military Miniatures?
Early in 1976, no one had any idea that Dungeons & Dragons would go on to transform the gaming hobby.…
A Forgotten Variant: Sir Pellinore’s Game
Of the gamers who assembled and self-published variant fantasy role-playing rules in the 1970s, few showed the dedication of Michael…
D&D in the News (1976): The Duke and the Evil Balrog
Early press about D&D rarely has the luxury of wading deep into the play of ongoing campaigns. That is what…
Gary Gygax on “Tomorrow” with Tom Snyder (1979)
It was early in November 1979: the publication of the Dungeon Masters Guide had recently completed the core Advanced Dungeons &…