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it is, but unlike other cursed items, it's not stuck to you; you can toss it if you like. But... it's also a handy garbage disposal. You can use it to get rid of those annoying regenerating troll bits and pieces that are always left over after a fight. And if you're not a nice person, and...

you can have a lot of fun with a Bag of Devouring

this happened a lot back in the early 1E days, when published adventures were still kinda sparse. The only one I recall for me was running through B2, as a fighter/thief in the back of the party. Wanted so bad to warn the others about the pit trap in the kobold lair, but didn't... and everyone...

I dunno, I'd say you were awfully lucky that you didn't summon a demon....

as a fan of alternate history, I have to imagine "Hey, what if Adkison hired both of them without telling either of them about the other, and put them both on D&D development." Yeah, bad things would have happened, I imagine :)

years after I'd been out of gaming, when I was a manager of a retail store, I overheard one of my cashiers talking about what could only be D&D. When I asked her about it, she said yes and asked if I'd ever played it. I said "Yeah, a long time ago" while thinking "Kid, you have no idea...."

it was news to me, as I generally didn't read some of the odd sources it was noted in before. I had long had the vague idea that TSR was sunk by a combo of generally poor sales, high production costs, and the final nail being the failure of Dragon Dice. StD makes it clear that it was actually...

I don't play either anymore. While I did play D&D a lot way back in the day, I tried MtG once... and just didn't see the appeal of it. For that matter, I just generally don't care for any collectible card game. That's just me though, and I get that a lot of people are passionate about them...

back in 2E days, I think most DMs created varieties of SJ craft, if they used that setting. Mine was the Hydra, an incredibly clumsy ship that had 5 'heads' on the front, all mounted on long 'necks' that moved around. Each head had a ballista mounted in it, and whoever was mounted on the helm...

I'm always amused at the idea of 'one true way to play D&D', considering the lack of clarity in the 1E rules...

OTOH... she went out of her way to help Bill Connors when he was going through a really bad time, keeping him on the payroll when he wasn't able to really do his job. And, regardless of the lack of financial success in the end, she was in charge when TSR was putting out scads of gorgeous...

okay, that game sounds.... not that good. Yeah, whatever EGG's faults, his idea of D&D was a better one...

I haven't been gaming in a long time, but when I was a DM, I treated them more or less as Vikings... raiders who could show up at unexpected times and generally pillage. I even had one batch of them who decided to copy the northmen longboats and took to sea raiding...

probably, I'm vaguely recalling what I read in The Game Wizards. Was AiF the game and AU the company? And have you actually seen this game/read the rules? You'd be the first that I know of who did....

I was thinking that Arneson's idea to Adkison might have been along the lines of AU, considering that it was already (sorta) finished and done by him and was supposedly his idea of 'proper D&D'. I'm not sure I've ever even seen a copy of AU, although I might have passed by it at Gencon one of...

I'm reminded of his "Adventures Unlimited" game, which was apparently supposed to be his idea of 'what D&D should have been." This is one game I'm completely unfamiliar with (not surprising, considering the dismal failure it apparently was). Anyone here ever look at/play AU?

between "Slaying the Dragon" and "Game Wizards", it's painfully obvious that both Arneson and EGG received some substantial amounts of money and seemed to have squandered a lot of it... both were rather happy to be bought out by Adkison when he was looking to clear up the legalities of the D&D...

both Arneson and EGG were unprepared for the stunning success of D&D... and the financial rewards of it all. Neither had any great business skills either. Such a situation was bound to be troublesome...

Game Wizards gives you the idea that Arneson was a great 'idea guy', but really lacked the drive to write and finish products... the book has numerous stories of his failures to finish up stuff. EGG, for all his faults, at least had the drive to complete products....

I think the book said something about him and Stevens having business degrees of some kind.....