is there books about d&D?

[rossik]

"Are there books", not "is there books".

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[S'mon]

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That's what my students do too.

 

[diaglo]

the original Little Wars (1913) by H. G. Wells is hard to come by. but you can find this one maybe: http://www.amazon.com/Little-Wars-H-G-Wells/dp/0972251154

 

[NewJeffCT]

"Are there books", not "is there books".

The OP is listed as being from Brazil, so I'd cut them a little slack on improper English, as they got their point across. And, I bet their English is better than your Portuguese!

 

[S'mon]

The OP is listed as being from Brazil, so I'd cut them a little slack on improper English, as they got their point across. And, I bet their English is better than your Portuguese!

(a) This is an English language board.
(b) I don't attempt to write Portugese.
(c) I didn't notice the Brazil location.

 

[Spell]

as a foreigner speaker:
please do correct improper english usage and spelling!!! it's the only way one can improve, after a certain point! it doesn't matter if it's a bit disheartening: better that than looking illiterate in the long run!

 

[rossik]

hey guys...no harm done, lets move on

 

[Zoatebix]

Project Guttenburg has the full text of Little Wars and Floor Games:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3691
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3690
And I've actually seen the edition Diaglo linked to in stores!

 

[CharlesRyan]

I recently read The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange by Mark Barrowcliffe. It's not a history of the game per se, but the author was a very early adopter, and he talks a lot about the early days of D&D and other early RPGs.

(Ironically, the book starts off very anti-gaming; he blames D&D for turning him into an unbearable nerd. However, the rest of the book doesn't really support his thesis, and by the end he basically abandons it (concluding, correctly, that he was an unbearable nerd to begin with). If you can get past the vitriol of the first 20 pages or so, the rest is a really enjoyable account of being a gamer in the very early days of the game.)

 

[S'mon]

I recently read The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange by Mark Barrowcliffe.

I enjoyed it a lot, the moreso as I used to live in Coventry (a grim & dreary place, ideal for RPGing). I was struck by the infatuation with Nazis of some of his weirder fellow players, also a part of my own early RPG experience - good to know it was apparently not that uncommon, at least among white working class Brits in the '70s and '80s.