D&D General When We Were Wizards: Review of the Completed Podcast!

[piper909]

Nice to see these pages again! Yes, there was some resistance within TSR at the time concerning the credits, but I believe Lawrence Schick went to bat on Paul's behalf and got him assigned as much design credit as EGG would permit. After all, Paul wrote half or more of the module, and the entire ms. had to be reorganized and fleshed out and brought into conformity with the established format of the time.

 

[Tony A. Rowe]

Oh, aye? Then my mistake! That was a long time ago, Tony. I can't recall who bought what I guess, except I'd thought that LOG edited mark-up was part of a big lot sold to Aaron in late 1998. When did you buy this? Was it off eBay? (I assume so, I don't know how I'd have reached out to other collectors, and the scene wasn't as big in those days.) I sold at least one original B3 "Silver princess" module via eBay that wasn't part of a lot.

Yes, I purchased the manuscript from you through eBay. I think it was in late 1998 or 1999 (what? Back in the 20th century?). I also bid on your The Fury of the Norsemen prototype (complete with Hagar the Horrible comic strip art) but I didn't win that one.

 

[piper909]

That Fury of the Norsemen prototype was bought with a batch of other Metagaming memorabilia by a serious Metagaming collector and at one time a lot of that was displayed on a Metagaming website he'd set up, an archive of sorts. I don't know if that has been maintained or not, it's been years since I saw any of it or even thought to hunt for it.

Yeah, I had that hand-made prototype stored on one of those old SPI flat boxes (you could buy "blank" ones from SPI at the time, to put the magazine games in more solidly.) And I covered the clear plastic lid with Hagar the Horrible cartoons and some panels from Prince Valiant Sunday strips showing Viking attacks.

 

[Tony A. Rowe]

That Fury of the Norsemen prototype was bought with a batch of other Metagaming memorabilia by a serious Metagaming collector and at one time a lot of that was displayed on a Metagaming website he'd set up, an archive of sorts. I don't know if that has been maintained or not, it's been years since I saw any of it or even thought to hunt for it.

That was Joe "The Maverick" Scoleri who outbid me for the Metagaming materials back in March of 1999. I was able to confirm the date as he posted your letter of authenticity to him regarding the FotN prototype: Microgames HQ Archives

Scoleri is a prolific contributor to BoardGameGeek, though I haven't seen him on there in a while. I hope he is doing OK.