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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 8769288" data-attributes="member: 7026594">More memories emerging.I remembered that the edition in the big blue three ring binder I bought at DragonFlight actually predated the 1991 edition.  The 1991 edition has a Dameon Willich cover, with a reasonably absurd cheesecake Winged Warrior on the cover in a see-through chainmail top.  The 1993 one has a comparatively polished and professional-looking cover with a Ruby Drake/Red Dragon making a breath weapon attack on a pair of adventurers on a hoverbike.The binder was navy blue, with a black image of a dragon/drake on it, the same image as in the third piece of art I'm attaching here.  I'm not sure if that edition was from 1990 or maybe 1989, but Raven definitely sold and distributed it around Western Washington State.  So there was definitely at least one edition offered and distributed for commercial sale prior to the 1991.  It's the same dragon that was in the Synnibarr ads in Dragon magazine, so it does look like he was offering those by mail order sale too.  I should troll through Dragon issues from maybe 1988-1990 and see if I can find the first Synnibarr ad.Oh, also, I found Raven's account of the beginning of Synnibarr on the website for the game.  He talks about his first exposure to RPGs with Metamorphosis Alpha in 1976, and how that set the seeds of him starting work on, or at least getting the idea for, Synnibarr in '79.  How long it was after that before he first produced a written set of rules I don't know.  Or how long after that he started printing runs of copies and selling one of those editions.  It might not have been until the "Big Blue Binder" edition, or it might have been earlier.  I don't have any evidence either way.[URL unfurl="true"]https://synnibarr.com/synnibarr.html[/URL]</blockquote>

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