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My fellow Scrum Club member Joe has started a series called the " Lost Art of D&D " on his blog  Scrum in Miniature , and the ...

GEN CON IX report by Ian Livingstone (Click on pic for a larger view) In the summer of 1976, Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson of Gam...

Review by Ken Bain, pg 7, Gallimaufry #12, Jan 1978 (click for larger view) Above is a screenshot of an early review of Holmes Basic from J...

Original art by John Blanche for the cover of the UK Holmes Basic rulebook Source: Tome of Treasures While working on yesterday's post ...

Left: Holmes Basic UK version (Dec 1977); Right: Heroes RPG (1979). Cover art for each by John Blanche .         There's a new version o...

"Move over bacon, now there's something meatier" Acaeum member Gnat the Beggar posted the above picture today in the Recent F...

Fangorn illustration from page 98 of the Fiend Folio (TSR, 1981) The Fiend Folio has a full-page illustration of two adventurers facing off...

A few more notes about the French translation of the Blue Book : The translation is coverless, 32 pages, and titled Donjons et Dragons on ...

Some magic item names from the French translation of the Blue Book : Potions 1. Croissance (Growth) 2. Diminution 3. Force de geant (Gi...

  Excerpt from the French translation of the Blue Book A few years ago Snorri (of A Wizard in a Bottle ) reported in the OD&D74 forums...

Paleologos over at DF has found another illustration by Jean Wells meant for B3 that was published in Polyhedron (issue #3, pg 10, "Pla...

      Acaeum member dwarf has provided me with this scan, which provides evidence of a previously undocumented fifth printing of the UK ...