Years before the publication of
Dungeons & Dragons or even
Chainmail, the wargaming fan community knew well of Gary Gygax's aspiration to design games. The image above shows the back of a copy of the April 1968 issue of
Panzerfaust, an important early wargaming fanzine, which is hand-addressed to Gygax by the editor, Donald Greenwood. Of special note is the sentence Greenwood has jotted in the upper left-hand corner: "Am interested in printing your games." Around a year later,
Panzerfaust would serialize Gygax's
Arsouf (sometimes called
Crusader), a medieval board wargame that represents Gygax's first foray into designs for that crucial setting.