Fireballs and spell saves - PatW author found original source that inspired Gygax

[marv]

This is big news:
http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-precursor-to-chainmail-fantasy.html

 

[darjr]

yea, pretty fascinating. Made slashdot and such. I do think, though, that folks at the time didn't think a lot of it. Though maybe because a lot of folks didn't know. There was an effort to see if the original author was still with us and I wonder if anybody will try to contact him.

 

[marv]

Looks like from the comments section some people have gotten a hold of Patt. Looking forward to hearing his story some day

 

[ccs]

yea, pretty fascinating. Made slashdot and such. I do think, though, that folks at the time didn't think a lot of it. Though maybe because a lot of folks didn't know. There was an effort to see if the original author was still with us and I wonder if anybody will try to contact him.

Reading the comments, yes, someone did.

Who'd have thought that two pages of notes to enable a LotR game would lead to all of THIS?

 

[darjr]

http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-precursor-to-chainmail-fantasy.html

 

[darjr]

OK. that is way cool. I hope he at least gets some nice deserved recognition.

 

[Cristian Andreu]

A fantastic find. Unknowingly, the ramifications of Leonard Pratt's ideas are so widespread today it's practically impossible to quantify how far they've travelled.

The man deserves some serious acknowledgment.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Jon Peterson is truly the scholar and chief investigator of the hobby. I can only imagine the work that goes into his research.