This personal diary is devoted to the unveiling of the old fantasy role-playing games of the past (1975-1989),especially those which - for whatever reasons - are lesser known, forgotten, obscure or neglected. Besides, it deals with overlooked movies of the same genre, of the kind you can only find in VHS if you are lucky enough. A journey into the abysses of fantasy.
Faery-tale
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This is fascinating.
Would it be possible to get a scan of the entire map? In the provided image, only the top portion is visible.
i'll try to fix it
It sounds a lot like Tony Bath's Hyboria campaigns from the 1960s.
Midgard != Hyboria :)
D&D was only the first published fantasy "roleplaying" game (even though the term didn't exist until 1976) and there was plenty "roleplaying" before 1974 - EGG states as much in his WD #14 interview and has no choice but to hedge given both Midgard and Hyboria appeared in early issues. :)
D&D wasn't even the first published game that could be used for "roleplaying" (subtle distinction, remembering that the play example in OD&D is /not/ 1-1 roleplaying, but unit level with a caller). Curtis, Colwill, and Blake got there before D&D as was clear from the ongoing narrative and discussions in Wargamers' Newsletter: Gygax and Blume then repackaged that (i.e. ripped it off) as Boot Hill -- which, of course, didn't succeed anything like as well as D&D because it wasn't "fantasy" and was thus very limited in scope.
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