Slaying the dragon : a secret history of Dungeons & Dragons
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250278043
- ISBN: 125027804X
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Physical Description:
viii, 293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part I: The rise and fall of Gary Gygax -- The warden's tale -- The birth of TSR, and the D&D phenomenon -- Satan! Suicide! And sales! -- TSR's near-death experience -- D&D and living the riot life in LA -- Part II: The Williams era -- Sympathy for Lorraine -- The departure of Weis and Hickman -- Lost realms found again -- How to find a bestselling author -- D&D, now advanced and 2.0! -- The saga of TSR West -- The fish-bait strategy -- Salvation sales in the book department -- TSR and Tolkien, or the game that was not -- Part III: Slapping a band-aid on failures -- Can VHS teach D&D to eight-year-olds? -- Departures -- TSR's greatest setting can't stop sales slide -- Random House wants its money back -- The giant with feet of lead -- Magic competition -- The warden departs -- Existential absurdity in 1997 -- The tomb -- Part IV: The preacher's son performs a resurrection -- Peter Adkison -- The deal that saved D&D -- Healing the wounds. |
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Subject: | Tactical Studies Rules (Firm) Dungeons and Dragons (Game) History Video games industry History Fantasy games History |
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- 7 of 7 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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