I was reading the Wikipedia page of David C. Sutherland III and discovered he illustrated the first edition rules of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master’s Guide. (Seen to the left.) Very cool to find a peice of the puzzle that is the history of creative work done for early RPG.

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Friday February 11, 2011

My first day at the Duke Special Collections Library I looked through three boxes. Each one had about four game boxes in them. The first one, Box #9, had three box sets from the RPG Gamma World by TSR Games. The first box I opened was Gamma World 3002 [...]

Introduction

This morning I began looking at a bunch of paper based role playing games. I suppose you could call what I’m doing feral research. Investigating a topic or group of topics with some intensity without belonging to academia. Thank you Stan Goff for introducing me to the phrase ‘Feral Scholar’ and for [...]