Table of Contents & List of Figures (Images)

[The Perilous Dreamer]

CONTENTS
Figures
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: A Prelude to Adventure (1964–1974)
 1.1 The Rise of Wargaming Clubs
 1.2 Miniature Wargaming
 1.3 The Medieval Setting
 1.4 The Castle & Crusade Society
 1.5 Amateur Attempts and Guidon Games
 1.6 Chainmail and Fantasy Wargaming
 1.7 “Will Cooperate on Game Design”
 1.8 The Fall of the IFW
 1.9 The Return of the Referee
 1.10 Blackmoor
 1.11 The Fantasy Game
 1.12 Startled by the New
Chapter Two: Setting—The Medieval Fantasy Genre
 2.1 The Evolution of Fantasy
 2.1.1 Fantasy as Popular Adventure Fiction
 2.1.2 “Scientificition” and the Unscientific
 2.1.3 Fantasy after the Pulps
 2.2 War and its Opponents
 2.3 The Influence of Tolkien
 2.4 The Visitation Theme
 2.5 On Dungeons and On Dragons
 2.5.1 Mazes with Monsters
 2.5.2 Draco Horribilis
 2.6 Fantastic People and Creatures
 2.7 Classes
 2.7.1 Fighting-men
 2.7.2 Magic-users
 2.7.3 Clerics
 2.8 Alignment and Parties
 2.9 Economics and Equipment
 2.9.1 Conventional Equipment
 2.9.2 Magic Items
 2.10 Beyond Dungeons and Beyond Dragons
Chapter Three: System—The Rules of the Game
 3.1 A History of Wargames
 3.1.1 Games of War Before 1780
 3.1.2 The Brunswick Gamers (1780–1811)
 3.1.3 Reiswitz, Father and Son (1811–1824)
 3.1.4 The Kriegsspiel Vogue (1824–1881)
 3.1.5 Toy Soldiery (1881–1914)
 3.1.6 Wargaming and the World Wars (1914–1945)
 3.1.7 The Civilian Revolution (1945–1968)
 3.2 System in Dungeons & Dragons
 3.2.1 The Instruments of Play
 3.2.1.1 Maps and Dialog
 3.2.1.2 Dice
 3.2.2 Avoiding Death: Hit Points, Armor Class and Saving Throws
 3.2.2.1 Avoidance and Accuracy
 3.2.2.2 Endurance and Mitigation
 3.2.3 Stratified Progression
 3.2.3.1 Levels and Experience
 3.2.3.2 Enrichment and Logistics
 3.2.4. Individuation, Personality and Requisites
Chapter Four: Character—Roles and Immersion
 4.1 Coalitions at RAND and in Diplomacy
 4.2 From “Let’s Pretend” to Coventry
 4.2.1 Child’s Play
 4.2.2 The Mariposan Empire
 4.3 Personalities by Post
 4.4 Improvisation and Anachronism
 4.5 Hyboria and the Campaign as Story
 4.5.1 Dramatizing Games
 4.5.2 Characters Run Amok
 4.6 The Midgard Phenomenon
 4.6.1 Midgard in the United Kingdom
 4.6.2 Midgard II and Beyond
 4.7 Characters and Role-Playing
Chapter Five: The Dawn of Role-Playing (1974–1977)
 5.1 Finding an Audience
 5.2 Selling the Story
 5.3 Converting the Wargamers
 5.4 Dungeons & Dragons in Los Angeles Fandom
 5.5 The Seeds of Success
 5.6 Alarming Excursions
 5.7 The Summer Conventions of 1975
 5.8 The Bully Pulpit of Lake Geneva
 5.9 Canonicity and Control
 5.9.1 The Copyright on Dungeons & Dragons
 5.9.2 License to Compete
 5.9.3 Parting of the Ways
 5.10 D&D among the RPGs
Epilogue: Role-Playing and Reality
 Popular Magic
 Programmable Dungeons
 The First Virtual Worlds
Selected Bibliography
 Game Zine Index
   Other Game Zines Mentioned
 Science-Fiction Zines
   Distributions
   Fanzines
 Game Citations
 Fiction
  Prozines
  Books
  Comic Books
 Further Reading
Endnotes

[The Perilous Dreamer]

FIGURES
Title page
Figure 1: Dungeons & Dragons, first edition
Figure 2: Tactics (1954), with game pieces
Figure 3: Gygax's First "Opponents Wanted" Advertisement
Figure 4: Gygax's GenCon I floor plan [IW:v1n4]
Figure 5: Wargaming in Wesely's basement
Figure 6: Elastolin castle from The Siege of Bodenburg
Figure 7: Map of the Great Kingdom [DB:#9]
Figure 8: Don Lowry (R) in 1973
Figure 9: First edition Chainmail
Figure 10: International Wargamer featuring Don't Give Up the Ship
Figure 11: Strategos N (1970)
Figure 12: Arneson's map of Blackmoor [DB:#13]
Figure 13: TSR's Gygax/Kaye "GK" Logo
Figure 14: Pulps (L to R) from the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s
Figure 15: Howard (R) enacting "Spear & Fang"
Figure 16: Arkham and Gnome editions of Leiber and Howard
Figure 17: Ace Books editions of the Lord of the Rings
Figure 18: Panel from Strange Tales #167 that inspired the D&D cover
Figure 19: Bill Speer (2nd from L) and Scott Duncan (R) [AHG:v4n3]
Figure 20: Dragon from a medieval bestiary (MS Harley 3244)
Figure 21: Manticore from Topsell (1607)
Figure 22: Lightning bolts cast by Thor (Journey into Mystery #93)
Figure 23: Bishop Odo in the Bayeux Tapestry, eleventh century
Figure 24: A life-stealing mirror, from Conan the Barbarian #25
Figure 25: A Roman icosahedral die, first century CE
Figure 26: Weickhmann's four- and six-player Königs-spiel boards
Figure 27: Pieces from Hellwig's 1803 Kriegsspiel
Figure 28: Venturini's Wargame Map (1797)
Figure 29: Reiswitz Taktisches Kriegs-Spiel (1812)
Figure 30: Illustration of two die faces, from Reiswitz's Anleitung (1824)
Figure 31: Combat table from Baring's translation of Tschischwitz
Figure 32: Heinrichsen flats, early twentieth century
Figure 33: Map from Stevenson’s Campaign
Figure 34: A Britains 4.7 Naval gun
Figure 35: Early players in Little Wars
Figure 36: Bel Geddes playing his wargame
Figure 37: A female gamer in Pratt's rulebook
Figure 38: Hexagonal wargame board at RAND
Figure 39: The Tactics Combat Results Table
Figure 40: Game Pieces from Tactics (L) and Tactics II (R)
Figure 41: Jack Scruby (L) and Homer Delabar (R)
Figure 42: Dungeon map from Greyhawk, drawn by Mornard
Figure 43: Polyhedral dice from the Basic Set
Figure 44: Chainmail "Man-to-Man Melee Table”
Figure 45: Blackmoor "Wizard Gaylord" Character Sheet
Figure 46: Diplomacy (1959) Board
Figure 47: Map of Angria by Branwell Brontë
Figure 48: Hand of “We, the Guardian” grasping at Coventry [APAL:#61]
Figure 49: Postal Diplomacy propaganda by Gygax [LD:#12]
Figure 50: In-character Napoleonic Campaign letter from Gygax
Figure 51: Illustration by Bobek of Diplomacy participants [LD:#3]
Figure 52: Tony Bath
Figure 53: Four game newsletters, from Coventry, Midgard, Hyboria and Ruritania
Figure 54: Minneapa #42 cover
Figure 55: Early TSR flyer
Figure 56: Gygax at GenCon VII (1974)
Figure 57: MiniFigs "Mythical Earth" series
Figure 58: TSR Royalty Agreement (1975) with Gygax and Arneson
Figure 59: Doctor Strange casts “Mirror Image”
Figure 60: Early Alarums & Excursions
Figure 61: Gygax (top center) running D&D at Origins I (1975)
Figure 62: The Horticultural Hall, Lake Geneva
Figure 63: The four Dungeons & Dragons supplements
Figure 64: Advertisement for Tunnels & Trolls as an RPG
Figure 65: Gygax D&D tutorial at Origins II (1976)
Figure 66: Metamorphosis Alpha marketed as an RPG
Figure 67: Early interactive fiction, in book form
Figure 68: Overworld (top) and dungeon perspective in Akalabeth (1980)