"We're known down here as the strange people with the funny dice," begins Bob Waltman, describing the reputation of the…

In the early days of gaming, a title could pass through a lot of hands before making its way to…

Early in 1980, TSR Hobbies circulated a slender booklet containing graphics and copy for hobby stores to reuse when advertising…

Gary Gygax explicitly called the Guidon Dungeons & Dragons document the "first draft" of the game in a cover letter.…

If anything could draw the attention of the mainstream press of 1976 to an obscure pastime like Dungeons & Dragons, it…

Two years before Chainmail was released, and a year before there was a Castle & Crusade Society, Gary Gygax was…

Early in 1976, no one had any idea that Dungeons & Dragons would go on to transform the gaming hobby.…

Of the gamers who assembled and self-published variant fantasy role-playing rules in the 1970s, few showed the dedication of Michael…

Early press about D&D rarely has the luxury of wading deep into the play of ongoing campaigns. That is what…

It was early in November 1979: the publication of the Dungeon Masters Guide had recently completed the core Advanced Dungeons &…