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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.....

finished this book yesterday. The contrast between the somber tone of William's tenure and Adkinson's rescue is extreme. It kinda goggles the mind that WOTC was so well placed with huge stacks of cash to rescue D&D from the creditors, as well as very eager to do so. And his complete...

finished this book yesterday; sad how many of TSR's people (Weis was one of many) were treated so distantly there and left as a result. I'm reminded that I was introduced to Weis at Gencon 1992. I was at one of TSR's booths, talking to Roger Moore about something, and Weis came by carrying a...

haven't gamed in a loooooong time, but... way back in college (1E days), our group was all male, but there were a handful of female PCs in the mix; no one really thought anything about it. My last group (early 2E days) was 4 men/3 women, but all of them pretty much played their own gender.

first time running a game? Not so well. I had those Dungeon Geomorphs and put a bunch of them together to make a huge dungeon stuffed to the gills with monsters and treasure, to the point that the players' eyes started to glaze over with all the slaughter/dice rolling. No real purpose to it...

1980, junior year of college. I'd heard about the game and picked up some stuff in the local toy store, but hadn't found a group. Sorta ran into one when I was doing laundry one night, and walked past one of the conference rooms on the floor, and saw some people setting up. I totally lucked...

maybe because it was one of the first non- D&D standard die you could buy? I bought one too way back in the day. Nowadays, of course, you can buy dice with all kinds of weird number/sides to them.... I had bunches of those back in the day, still have a few. I got rid of a bunch of the worn...

I didn't get any dice in the Holmes boxed set I bought back in 1980 (mine was one of the ones that had only chits), so I bought bunches of loose ones... the toy store that had all the gaming stuff in town had bins of them. I've tossed a few over the years that were irretrievably rounded and...

probably the most memorable thing about Dragon that I recall, weirdly enough, didn't involve D&D, but were the short and goofy games in the early issues.... Elefant Hunt (no, I didn't misspell that), File 13, Food Fight, Flight of the Boodles, etc.

me too! I lucked out in that I was one of the authors in that issue, so I got two contributor copies along with my subscription copy, so I removed one set and cut it up, removed one set but didn't cut it up, and kept one issue pristine. Alas, I lost the cut out deck somewhere years ago, but...

from what I remember: max hp at 1st level ignoring level limits for demi-humans simplifying initiative to 'both sides roll a D6, highest number means that side goes first' ignoring all those % chances to write a spell in your spellbook Actually, when I look at it, a lot of what we did was not so...

IIRC, the Al Qadim line was specifically designed to run 3 years and no more from the very beginning. But that was the only one with a preplanned shelf life, I think....

having just finished up "Game Wizards".... yeah. 1984 was a bad year, and Satanic Panic likely had little to do with it. For various reasons, sales just plateaued and never got better. The years leading up to it showed that the people in charge of TSR really didn't know how to manage a...

true, she definitely went too far. Always wondered if she did/should have gotten some counseling to help her deal with her grief. As it was, the statistics came out later showing that D&D was far from a negative influence, and quite the opposite in fact. Luckily, her crusade didn't really...