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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 8665451" data-attributes="member: 7026594">All three of the Peterson books are great.  I just finished Game Wizards and read The Elusive Shift within the last year as well.  Playing at the World I finished this year after getting halfway through a few years ago and stalling.  That mother is dense and long, but worth it.They definitely feel like a fulfillment/near-apotheosis of the historical digging that's been one of the occupations of the OSR over the last fifteenish years.I started getting really into the history after I randomly met Frank Mentzer (author of the 1983 Basic set I started with, like you did) at a local convention back in 2008 and he recommended the Dragonsfoot forums to me.  I then saw him and Tim Kask a few times at regional cons and started playing some old school games at those events.  All the neat blog articles and conversations and interviews with the surviving old schoolers about the development and history of the game and roleplaying in general feel like they got fleshed out and solidified with solid scholarship leading in books like these.</blockquote>