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Designers & Dragons: Origins - Secret Door

From the birth of roleplaying to the discovery of the Forgotten Realms, from the rise of Basic D&D to the fall of Mystara, explore the history of OD&D, BD&D, and AD&D 1e in Designers & Dragons: Origins.Peer through the Secret Door and get a small peek into the artwork & design, origins, and lore behind some of the most iconic books and adventures of the 70s, 80s, and beyond.ENnie award-winning historian Shannon Appelcline has exhaustively revised and expanded his...

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Designers & Dragons: The 00s

PART FOUR OF A FOUR-VOLUME SET! EVERYTHING YOU’VE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF ROLEPLAYING GAMES... Designers & Dragons: The ’00s is a comprehensive picture of the new resurgence of the RPG industry. The final and most updated book in a four volume series, we’ve added tens of thousands of new words and insider info to this volume alone. Take an inside look at d20 companies, watch the growth of new titans like Paizo Publishing, and learn about the growth of indie presses...

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Designers & Dragons: The 70s

PART ONE OF A FOUR-VOLUME SET! EVERYTHING YOU’VE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF ROLEPLAYING GAMES... Designers & Dragons: The ’70s is a comprehensive picture of the beginnings of the RPG industry. This second edition expands the original single book into a series of four, and we’ve added over 50,000 new words to this volume alone. Learn about the colorful history of TSR and the wave of D&D inspired games (and gaming companies) to follow, and dip your toes into wargaming...

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Designers & Dragons: The 80s

PART TWO OF A FOUR-VOLUME SET! EVERYTHING YOU’VE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF ROLEPLAYING GAMES... Designers & Dragons: The ’80s is a comprehensive picture of the growth of the RPG industry. This second edition expands the original single book into a series of four, and we’ve added over 10,000 new words to this volume alone. Take an in-depth look at ’80s style gaming courtesy of companies like Steve Jackson Games and West End Games, plus an intro to the small (but...

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Designers & Dragons: The 90s

PART THREE OF A FOUR-VOLUME SET! EVERYTHING YOU’VE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF ROLEPLAYING GAMES... Designers & Dragons: The ’90s is a comprehensive picture of the heyday of the RPG industry. This second edition expands the original single book into a series of four, and we’ve added over 10,000 new words to this volume alone. In this volume, we profile an RPG titan—Wizards of the Coast— and cover the rise of storytelling RPG settings like White Wolf’s World of Darkness....

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Designers & Dragons: The Complete Set [BUNDLE]

This special bundle product contains the following titles.Designers & Dragons: The 00sRegular price: $10.00Bundle price: $10.00Format: Multiple Formats PART FOUR OF A FOUR-VOLUME SET! EVERYTHING YOU’VE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF ROLEPLAYING GAMES... Designers & Dragons: The ’00s is a comprehensive picture of the new resurgence of the RPG industry. The final and most updated book in a four volume series, we’ve added tens...

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Designers & Dragons: The Platinum Appendix

AN APPENDIX FOR THE FOUR-VOLUME SET! Designers & Dragons: The Platinum Appendix is a collection of additional essays and indices to enhance and expand the material found in the Designers & Dragons series by author-historian Shannon Appelcline. In this appendix, you’ll find: Essays on women in the roleplaying industry, the Auriana Gang, the Hero Auxiliary Corps, and the Runequest Mafia Shannon's collected yearly chronicles of the industry from 2008 to 2014 An index for...

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Ebook: The Science Fiction In Traveller

Award-winning reviewer Shannon Appelcline (Designers & Dragon) investigates the science-fiction literature that shaped the structure and content of the Traveller science-fiction role-playing game. He reviews and discusses the broad expanse of SF that influenced Marc Miller as he designed the massive background universe of Traveller, and then gives equal consideration to the novels and short stories that were inspired by Traveller. At download, you can select the files you need: Kindle,...

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The Moon Files: Reaching Moon Megacorp

The Moon Files: Reaching Moon Megacorp The history of the fan organization Reaching Moon Megacorp and its impact on the RuneQuest RPG and the fantasy world of Glorantha written by RPG historian Shannon Appelcline of Designers & Dragons fame. This KRAKEN Chapbook is a Fundraiser for THE KRAKEN THE KRAKEN is a baroque gathering of international gamers and game creators. We host Gaming Retreats at Schloss Neuhausen in former Prussia, Germany.  

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The Science Fiction In Traveller

Award-winning reviewer Shannon Appelcline (Designers & Dragon) investigates the science-fiction literature that shaped the structure and content of the Traveller science-fiction role-playing game. He reviews and discusses the broad expanse of SF that influenced Marc Miller as he designed the massive background universe of Traveller, and then gives equal consideration to the novels and short stories that were inspired by Traveller.

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This is Free Trader Beowulf

This is Free Trader Beowulf, calling anyone … Mayday, Mayday. A box emblazoned with those words went on sale for the first time on July 22, 1977, at the Origins III Game Fair, heralding the advent of the Traveller roleplaying game from GDW. It wasn’t the first science-fiction roleplaying game, but through its innovative design and through the development of its evocative universe of Charted Space, it would become the longest running SFRPG in the industry. However, its path would not be...

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