If you missed it:
Originally shared by Jon Peterson
In late 1970, Leonard Patt published a fantasy wargame system with Heroes, Anti-heroes, Wizards that throw “fire ball” spells, dragons, orcs, ents, and so on. The authors of Chainmail surely knew it, and it appears that Dungeons & Dragons and many fantasy games that followed owe an unacknowledged debt to Patt’s rules. Take a look for yourself.
http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-precursor-to-chainmail-fantasy.html
I'm waiting for the discovery of the little-known set of one-page fantasy wargaming rules written between 1892 and 1906 on the backs of matchboxes which were the direct inspiration for Mr Pratt's rules. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThat would be H.G. Wells' "Little Orcs". ;-)
ReplyDeleteOrson Wells' original Traveller rules disguised as a radio program script.
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