Part Thirty-Two: 1998, Yer Blues. A Historical Overview of Role-playing from the Trenches

At this point in the series we’re only three years away from The Year 2001… THE FUTURE. But here we’re just interested in gamers and role-playing, so let’s roll. (See what I did there?) Looks deceptively friendly, doesn't it? Hasbro the Giant This year yer pal Hasbro purchased game publisher Avalon Hill and fired everyone. …

Part Nineteen: 1986, Gettin’ Mad, Baby – A Historical Overview of Role-playing from the Trenches

In the November 1985 issue of Dragon Magazine, Gygax had mentioned reorganizing AD&D into a second edition, with the work to begin in 1986. He name-dropped his second-in-command Frank Mentzer as slated to work on it. What we didn’t know was that Gygax had been fired in October of 1985. His name just disappeared after …