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<blockquote data-quote="TerraDave" data-source="post: 7647433" data-attributes="member: 22260"><p>More things I will add. Thanks again to everyone for their feedback:</p><p></p><p>1975</p><p></p><p>Boothill by Blume and Gygax published by TSR games. Focused on gun fighting, the game did have rules for advancement and can be considered the first non-fantasy RPG. It would also be one of the first to use primarily d10s and percentile based skills. The 1979 2nd edition would include counters and an early battle mat. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/BootHill1975.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>1977</p><p></p><p>White Dwarf magazine launched by Games Workshop. Games Workshop, founded by John Peake, Ian Livingstone, and Steve Jackson (of the UK) in 75 also received the license to produce D&D in the UK this year and for many years White Dwarf would have articles for that and other role playing game. It would open its first retail shop the following year and receive licenses for Call of Cthulhu, Runequest, and other games. </p><p></p><p>1979</p><p></p><p>Villains and Vigilantes by Herman and Dee published by Fantasy Games unlimited. The first supers RPG, the character was to be similar to the player, but with random super powers. A table was used in resolving combat and to show how the attackers super powers would work versus the defenders powers. Jeff Dee is also an artist who would do the illustrations for this and other games, including D&D.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerraDave, post: 7647433, member: 22260"] More things I will add. Thanks again to everyone for their feedback: 1975 Boothill by Blume and Gygax published by TSR games. Focused on gun fighting, the game did have rules for advancement and can be considered the first non-fantasy RPG. It would also be one of the first to use primarily d10s and percentile based skills. The 1979 2nd edition would include counters and an early battle mat. [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/BootHill1975.jpg[/IMG] 1977 White Dwarf magazine launched by Games Workshop. Games Workshop, founded by John Peake, Ian Livingstone, and Steve Jackson (of the UK) in 75 also received the license to produce D&D in the UK this year and for many years White Dwarf would have articles for that and other role playing game. It would open its first retail shop the following year and receive licenses for Call of Cthulhu, Runequest, and other games. 1979 Villains and Vigilantes by Herman and Dee published by Fantasy Games unlimited. The first supers RPG, the character was to be similar to the player, but with random super powers. A table was used in resolving combat and to show how the attackers super powers would work versus the defenders powers. Jeff Dee is also an artist who would do the illustrations for this and other games, including D&D. [/QUOTE]
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