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2025 1

  1. Playing at the World 2E V2 Arrives

2024 3

  1. A Fiftieth Anniversary Year
  2. Jim Ward's Adventure in Gygax's Wonderland
  3. D&D Turns 50, and Something Else Turns 200

2022 3

  1. Trivial Pursuit: Dungeons & Dragons Ultimate Edition
  2. E'a, Chronicles of a Dying World
  3. Alistair MacIntyre's 1974 Dungeon Designs

2021 20

  1. The Deadly Illusion of GenCon 1978
  2. Arneson v. Gygax: The Freeman Deposition
  3. Game Wizards: The Evolution of TSR Contracts
  4. Arneson's Hit Points for Characters
  5. "Game Wizards" the Game
  6. Units of Value and the Tactical Studies Rules Partnership
  7. Game Wizards: D&D Development Timeline
  8. Game Wizards: TSR Staffing
  9. Game Wizards: TSR Financials
  10. Game Wizards: My New Book
  11. The Sansu Set d10
  12. The Edmund Scientific Polyhedron Set (1966)
  13. A Date for Monsters! Monsters! Monsters! Galore
  14. The Invention of the d4
  15. Western Gunfight (1970): the First RPG?
  16. Does System Matter?
  17. Immersion and Role Playing in the 1970s
  18. A History of Hero Points: Fame, Fortune and Fate
  19. The Origins of Rule Zero
  20. Player Typologies, from Wargames to Role-Playing Games

2020 9

  1. A Forgotten Variant: Mythrules (1978)
  2. The Elusive Shift, My New Book
  3. Fredda Sieve and Her 1963 "Zazz" Dice
  4. d6s to Roll for Wandering Monsters in 1980
  5. Early Play-by-Post D&D in Britain
  6. GenCon 1971 and the Castle Sewer Game
  7. Dungeons & Dragons at a Distance: Early Play-by-Mail D&D
  8. Dave Arneson's Origins 1977 Tournament
  9. Identifying the Dice of the 1970s

2019 2

  1. The Complete OD&D Illusionist
  2. D&D's 45th Birthday

2018 18

  1. Artistic Arcana: Scruby Fantasy Miniatures and TSR
  2. Artistic Arcana: Greg Bell Before TSR
  3. Subterranean Chainmail: Mines and Countermines
  4. Artistic Arcana: The Impostor Lizardman
  5. Why Did Armor Class Descend from 9 to 2?
  6. A Forgotten Variant: The Observers Book of Monsters
  7. Missile Fire in Chainmail, courtesy of Charles Sweet
  8. Dave Arneson's "Adventuring Is..." Cartoons
  9. To-Hit Rolls in Individual Medieval Combat, from Phil Barker to Chainmail
  10. Mordenkainen, in 1974 and today.
  11. D&D in the News (1978): Funny Dice in Iowa, with Zeb Cook
  12. From Arbela to Alexander: Gygax's Ancient Board Wargame
  13. Vintage Ad: 1980 Do-It-Yourself Edition
  14. A Forgotten Variant: The X-Fragments
  15. D&D in the News (1976): You're either a Fighter, Magic-user, Cleric, or Thief
  16. War of the Empires (1969), Gygax's Space Conquest Campaign
  17. Vintage Ad: Does Your Shop Sell Military Miniatures?
  18. A Forgotten Variant: Sir Pellinore's Game

2017 14

  1. D&D in the News (1976): The Duke and the Evil Balrog
  2. Gary Gygax on "Tomorrow" with Tom Snyder (1979)
  3. Vintage Ad: Think of TSR
  4. A Forgotten Variant: Catacombs and Caverns
  5. D&D in the News (1977): You, Too, Can Be a Wizard
  6. The Invention of Randomly Generated Dungeons
  7. Vintage Ad: Slain Any Wicked Dragons Lately?
  8. A Forgotten Variant: Loera, the Massively Multiplayer Tabletop RPG
  9. D&D In the News (1976): Fazzle on the Ryth
  10. Spellcasting before D&D in Midgard
  11. Vintage Ad: Why Women Don't Play Wargames
  12. The Gin and Pygmalion, In and Out of Blackmoor
  13. The Dalluhn Manuscript and CONTAX
  14. See the D&D Draft at the Gen Con Museum

2016 5

  1. The D&D Syndicated Radio Show Pilot
  2. How Mana Became a Game Mechanic
  3. A Conversation with Len Patt
  4. Video Episode on Original D&D
  5. A Precursor to the Chainmail Fantasy Supplement

2015 6

  1. The Samurai in D&D, via Bruce Sterling
  2. To Hit Armor Class Zero
  3. World At War, the TSR of the Twin Cities
  4. Fortieth Anniversary of Games Workshop
  5. Gaming the Battle of the Five Armies
  6. 2014: A Year in Review

2014 12

  1. Quagmire: The Making of a 1980s Dungeons & Dragons Module
  2. A New Dungeons & Dragons Timeline
  3. Sheets Before Characters
  4. The First Female Gamers
  5. 1974 Dungeon Variant, Now for Download
  6. Gen Con 1968 and Today
  7. How Gary Gygax Lost Control of TSR
  8. The Legacy of Gygax's Armor
  9. Midgard II (1972), the Other Fantastic Medieval Wargames Campagin
  10. Autumn Walk: A 1975 Gygax Poem
  11. A Fantastic Bestiary
  12. History of D&D in 12 Treasures

2013 12

  1. Gary Gygax's 1973 D&D Working Draft
  2. When Dungeons & Dragons Turns 40
  3. The Earliest Dungeons & Dragons Advertisements
  4. The First Critical Hits
  5. The Origins of Dice Notation
  6. Character Sheets in 1975
  7. Arsouf (1969) by Gary Gygax
  8. Tactical Studies Hobbies, an Oddity in Letterhead
  9. The Dalluhn Manuscript: In Detail and On Display
  10. Arneson's Naval Illustrations
  11. How Gaming Got Its Dice
  12. Strategos in the Twin Cities

2012 18

  1. Gary Gygax on Christmas and Christianity
  2. Gaming is Now 100 Years Old
  3. The Early Works of Gary Gygax
  4. The Source of the Chainmail Cover Art
  5. Armor Class in Chainmail
  6. A Playtesting Edition of Dungeons & Dragons (1973)
  7. Blackmoor, in the Era of Loch Gloomen
  8. Don't Give Up the Ship, in Manuscript
  9. GenCon 2012 and 1968
  10. Gygax's "The Thief Addition" (1974)
  11. Rules to the Game of Dungeon (1974)
  12. The Midwest Military Simulation Association (MMSA)
  13. The Great Kingdom (Domesday Book #9)
  14. The LGTSA Medieval Miniatures Rules
  15. Blackmoor Gazette and Rumormonger #1
  16. Domesday Book #1
  17. Heresies of the Domesday Book
  18. After completing seven hundred page