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Dungeons and Dragons Knowledge Compendium
ScurvySeaDog writes "Like me, I would bet many slashdotters where D&D players before they got their first home computer in the early 80's. This site seems to have every book, module, supplement ever published along with scans of the covers. They also have current collector values for you packrats. It was nostalgic for me to browse around looking up all the old modules and books."
Yeah, you can still find them for mame, they were well done, although I would have liked a bit more depth...
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
They were called D&D: Shadows over Mystara and D&D: Towers of Doom.
The raid on Steve Jackson Games was for the GURPS Cyberpunk supplement, written by Lloyd Blankenship (and a first-printing autographed copy sits proudly in my collection). It is now out of print.
Remove the caps and hold to a mirror.
Is thanks to the new game, Neverwinter Nights.
FYI, User Friendly's latest cartoons are about a game of AD&D...
Is this it?
Well, I was going to say how much I doubted that D&D influenced "Adventure" (since Crowther began work on it around 1975), but lo and behold, I find that he himself credits Gygax's game as an influence.
I am familiar with the site in question. It is nowhere near as comprehensive as the story suggests. They seem to have all the 1st edition and earlier stuff but hardly any 2nd edition and no 3rd edition.
This is, I think because it's mainly a site for collectors, and 2nd edition stuff doesn't fetch as high a price as 1st edition stuff. (Although I have seen a lot of 2nd edition stuff fetch lots more than some 1st edition stuff).
Details of modules etc are confined to differences between printings, rarity, etc.
This is definately a site for collectors, not players, and people wanting a stroll down memory lane (complete with random encounters) should look elsewhere.
graspee
"What's New?" and other Phil & Kaja Foglio material can be found here and here (Adult!)
"What's New?" contains material from Dragon Magazine, Duelist and other sources. Probably why it is not avaible at TSR, besides Phil often do his own publishing.
Carbon based humanoid in training.
The raid on Steve Jackson Games was for the GURPS Cyberpunk supplement, written by Lloyd Blankenship
GURPS Cyberpunk wasn't a reason, it was an excuse. The Secret Service and the Chicago Computer Crime Bureau raided SJG as part of the "Operation Sunfire" raid on the hacker group the Legion of Doom. Blankenship (aka Mentor) was a former member of the Legion at that time. They raided his home and his place of work, SJG. When it became clear to the feds that they'd found nothing in the SJG raid, they offered as a face-saving pretext the preposterous idea that GURPS Cyberpunk was "a manual for computer crime."
I second the recommendation of the fine Bruce Sterling book THE HACKER CRACKDOWN, linked in another post on this thread.
D&D was, for it's time, an incredible piece of work. It managed to put across so much that's now taken for granted. For example, the fact that you play just one character was near revolutionary for the time - D&D was the first to get that across sucessfully. Were it not for D&D, RPG's would exist . (Okay something else would have taken it's place, but that's a given).
Since then, however, there's been a large number of different RGP's produced, some more or less like D&D (such as RM), some a bit different (Call of Cuthullu, Vampire:the Masqurade, etc), and some rather different (Sorcerer and
De Profoundis.
Some of them really push the envelope of what RPG's are. Some are just kick ass fun. With all the nostalgia, remeber to try some of the newer stuff.
On RM Leisure Games based in london, will mail order, and have a stock of
Rolemaster gear. They will deliver outside the UK (including Spain), but that costs extra. Hey, if it's the only place to get it...
The official site has a list of modules that you can download here.
After some research on my own (too curious.. hehe) I found out that the persons in question are:
Ed Whitchurch (DM) and
Eric Sorenson (Dudlee Duerite)
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Evan
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