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<blockquote data-quote="Echohawk" data-source="post: 7426706" data-attributes="member: 9849"><p>One of my major regrets from the time I spent compiling the Collector's Guides is that I didn't document the sources of all of the release dates better. In general the priority order for setting those was: 1. TSR catalogs. 2. Dragon Magazine previews/adverts/mentions. 3. Any online sources including the US copyright office records of publication date. 4. My own notes and records of when I added items to my collection. 5. Guesswork.</p><p></p><p>The early eighties are a particularly tricky period as TSR didn't release annual catalogs as reliably as they did from the mid-80s onward, but those releases are late enough in the D&D lifespan that there is less interest in documenting release dates on online fans sites. (The Acaeum does a great job of dating the first ten years of releases, for example.)</p><p></p><p>So, all that said, I'm confident that the release dates in the Collector's Guides are about 90% accurate. Where they are not, dates are unlikely to be out by more than a month. But alas I didn't keep good enough records of where I sourced each product's release dates to now be sure exactly which dates are confirmed and which ones are educated guesses.</p><p></p><p>My second major regret is that I haven't been properly maintaining these for the last five years, and they have become a little stale, and also don't include all of the late 4th edition and 5th edition mentions of all of the campaign settings. I could really use an extended sabbatical from work to revamp them all, but that's not likely to happen soon <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echohawk, post: 7426706, member: 9849"] One of my major regrets from the time I spent compiling the Collector's Guides is that I didn't document the sources of all of the release dates better. In general the priority order for setting those was: 1. TSR catalogs. 2. Dragon Magazine previews/adverts/mentions. 3. Any online sources including the US copyright office records of publication date. 4. My own notes and records of when I added items to my collection. 5. Guesswork. The early eighties are a particularly tricky period as TSR didn't release annual catalogs as reliably as they did from the mid-80s onward, but those releases are late enough in the D&D lifespan that there is less interest in documenting release dates on online fans sites. (The Acaeum does a great job of dating the first ten years of releases, for example.) So, all that said, I'm confident that the release dates in the Collector's Guides are about 90% accurate. Where they are not, dates are unlikely to be out by more than a month. But alas I didn't keep good enough records of where I sourced each product's release dates to now be sure exactly which dates are confirmed and which ones are educated guesses. My second major regret is that I haven't been properly maintaining these for the last five years, and they have become a little stale, and also don't include all of the late 4th edition and 5th edition mentions of all of the campaign settings. I could really use an extended sabbatical from work to revamp them all, but that's not likely to happen soon :(. [/QUOTE]
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