A friend in the UK reminded me 50 Years ago a strange obscure game called Dungeons & Dragons was born and the 1st edition of it was published (obviously they didn’t know it was the first edition at the time). Some of you might have heard of it…
Category: History of D&D
RIP Jennell Jaquays
Very sad to hear the passing of Jennell Jaquays – after a period of severe illness. She was a great contributor to the early D&D era and (as Paul Jaquays) did many new and original things at the early time in D&D’s history. I have hugely fond memories of playing through Caverns of Thracia while […]
Once, there was this kid who…
Great amusing parody covering Hasbro, WotC, OGL, CEO’s who have no connection to the product they ‘sell’, and monetising D&D. It seems the old trope of the more things change the more they stay the same is true – haven’t we seen all this same thing with TSR during their death throws 1986-1997…? Once—there was […]
Original Adventures Reincarnated #7: Dark Tower
Goodman Games have done it again and launched a new Kickstarter for the latest in their “Original Adventures Reincarnated” range of books – this time the classic Jennell Jaquays Judges Guild published ‘Dark Tower‘ module. This module along with Jaquays’ ‘Caverns of Thracia‘ module are arguably the 2 best non-TSR D&D/AD&D modules produced in the […]