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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Autumn Walk: A 1975 Gygax Poem



In memory of Gary.
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Anthologies I'm In


Zones of Control (MIT Press)



Role-Playing Game Studies (Routledge)

Other Articles by Jon

The real history behind Stranger Things 4’s Satanic Panic plot (2022)

The Missing Teen Who Fueled Cult Panic over Dungeons & Dragons (2021)

From the Unknown to the Borderlands (2021)

Per Aspera Ad Astra: The Material Culture of Early Space Empire Games (2019)

Petits Soldats, Grandes Victoires: Wargaming in Occupied Paris (2018)

A Brief History of the Fireball in Fantasy Games (2015)

Inside the Lost 1980s Dungeons & Dragons Movie (2015)

Quagmire! The Making of a 1980's D&D Module (2014)

The First Female Gamers (2014)

The Ambush at Sheridan Springs: How Gary Gygax Lost Control of Dungeons & Dragons (2014)

Links to Other Media

Watch Jon discuss the early history of gaming on PBS Off Book.

Listen to Jon on the Save or Die! Podcast Episode #78 discussing Eldritch Wizardry.

Listen to the Sometime Seminar podcast Episode #15 for a detailed critical discussion of Playing at the World.
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