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Frank (and the Wikipedia page for the Tomb of Horrors that shows up for me anyway) are correct that the Tomb was run at Origins in 1975, not 1976. You are correct that the PHB did not come out until 1978. It is true that they are not the same adventure. The Origins Tomb was run for exactly 120...

PatW does indeed show that other people were experimenting with many of the same ideas that ultimately constituted D&D. Tony Bath was coming quite close, perhaps. But it's important not to underestimate the extent of Gygax's personal achievement. When it comes to inventing a technology, often...

Very enterprising. The earliest accounts of where Gary bought games suggest that he favored Brentano's in Chicago to get his Avalon Hill titles in the very early 1960s. My point though was more that Monopoly was a game that could be secured in any number of venues, while, say, to get Metagaming...

Yeah, actually one of the people I asked to give this an advance read for me flagged this sentence, but I decided to keep it. I think the term "hobby gaming" had a slightly different sense than "gaming overall," though if you want to get real technical about what it meant in the 80s, I'd...

A ripping yarn! I guess things must have been simpler in the early days - the Alex Raymond estate probably wasn't banging down your door looking for a cut. I hadn't known of that story before, but I'm sure now collectors will be scrambling to find a copy... and there's probably more where that...

Thanks, Gary, for your lightning-fast reply. By Rod Walker's zine, maybe you mean Erehwon? I know he went on to more professional magazine work... Sounds like my questions were too easy for you! Well, if that didn't tax you too much, perhaps I can sneak in a couple more... How did the term...

Hi Gary, First time caller here - let me say off the bat, wow! The amount of information contained in this 5-year thread is staggering. This is really an amazing gift to posterity. People interested in the history of gaming will have their work cut out for them just organizing all of this...