It’s not just creator v creator history in the book. As you might expect, Game Wizards also looks at the Satanic Panic and not just at the problems that caused, but the advantages as well.
Christmas in July: Chainmail, the game which became D&D, is on sale
The DMs Guild has more than a PDF scan copy of Chainmail available. The print-on-demand softcover is also available. The bundle, with both, is also marked down.
Fandom conventions update for July
Geek Native runs an RPG, fandom and geeky events calendar.
The confusing re-return of TSR Games and a potential dinosaur theme park
So we’re left to unearth these clues found scattered over their social media activities and one very sketchy press release.
Gary Gygax’s own DM has finally licensed his original works
Robert J. Kuntz is an author and game designer who played with Gary Gygax in that fateful demonstration by Dave Arneson of Blackmoor in 1972. He later went on to DM Gary Gygax.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #55
One week of RPG news: A battle in the Gygax family of D&D’s legacy, too sexy vampires and a game designer disowning their award-winning edgelord adventure.
Unbreakable author wants D&D to pull Oriental Adventures from shops
In recent years, more D&D fans have been uncomfortable with how the 1985 published book treats its subject matter.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #50
In Routinely Itemised this week we catch up with PaizoCon Online, find out what the D&D movie has in store and ear about “choose your own adventure” audiobooks!
Second Gygax Will brings the family to court as a D&D legacy battle brews
Luke Gygax has a second Will that his father wrote, and it may replace the one Gail has been using to date.
Expedition to the Barrier Peaks: An old school D&D adventure that inspires musicians
It was written by Gary Gygax in 1976, back when D&D was only two years old and played in the Origins II convention.