Sham's Grog 'n Blog: ORIGINS of a HOBBY

ORIGINS of a HOBBY

A chronological study of some of the most important events leading to the first published modern RPG, TSR's Dungeons & Dragons, 1974.

Sham's Grog 'n Blog: ORIGINS of a HOBBY

That begins in 1893!

GRUBB STREET: Secret Origins-Jeff Grubb's On Some Gaming History

GRUBB STREET: Secret Origins: "Marvel Super Heroes"

GRUBB STREET: Realms and Remembrance

GRUBB STREET: Spelljamming (Innnn Spppaaaaaace!)

Inside look at gaming history. Good reading.

PALEOBLOGGING LITE-Having Fun Never Hurt Anyone

Die-Cast Ignorance

Having Fun Never Hurt Anyone

Isaac Calon

Thirty years ago the creative and entrepreneurial minds of Gary Gygax and David Arneson combined to create an entirely new way of having fun. The innovation of the Dungeons & Dragons(TM) (D&D) pen-and-paper role-playing game beat a path for dozens of inspired products and hundreds of other games that are as varied as the people who make and play them. The game is ageless--it's played by children and adults--and an entire subculture has sprung up around it and the community of people who play. Unfortunately, D&D carries with it some fairly hefty image problems that have made the game a hot topic in the conservative Christian church and elsewhere, image problems that are completely unnecessary and have been propagated through ignorance. I'm here to dispel the myths and misconceptions associated with this dice game.

Roleplaying Tips for game masters for all role-playing systems

Create Your Own Dungeons And Dragons Convention | RPG Digest

Get your game on with your own Mini-Con-awesome :)

Create Your Own Dungeons And Dragons Convention | RPG Digest

Not Quite PaleoBlogging or New But Interesting Nonetheless- WOTC and the pulling of Crystal Keep

Just a bit from over at 5 Stone Games on WotC tactics that everyone knows isn't going to turn sales around and continues to alienate potential customers. Well put post:

WOTC and the pulling of Crystal Keep

PALEOBLOGGING LITE

We can steal the term "neo-retro"; there are parallels in P-n-P gaming and console gaming.

http://uhluhtcawakens.blogspot.com/2008/11/we-can-steal-term-neo-retro-there-are.html

A Farewell to Hexes (an essay on wargames by Greg Costikyan)
http://www.costik.com/spisins.html

A History of Role-Playing (fairly extensive through '99)
http://ptgptb.org/0001/history1.html

PALEOBLOGGING LITE-More Posts From The Past Worth A Look

Gaming Books that Offer Unexpectedly Good GMing Advice?
http://www.treasuretables.org/2007/10/gaming-books-that-offer-unexpectedly-good-gming-advice

Building a Wilderness Hex for a Sandbox Campaign
http://gothridgemanor.blogspot.com/2009/12/building-wilderness-hex-for-sandbox.html

Ringworld
http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2009/08/ringworld.html

PALEOBLOGGING LITE-HIGHLIGHTING OLDER POSTS OF IMPORTANCE FROM BLOGS

Something I picked up from Rob MacDougall (who in turn picked it up from Snarkmarket) I thought was a good idea because we can't always catch everything when it's fresh.

Greyhawk Grognard: AD&D's Lost Second Edition

GROGNARDIA: Gygax on Tolkien (Again)


Old School, New School and Gygaxian Naturalism (or not)

Running a D&D Campaign in 1974
(be certain and get the first part here)

OD&DITIES fanzine issue archive, published and reproduced here by permission from R.E.B. Tongue