Intense, precisely rendered maps from the 1980s

A great new gallery of Dungeons and Dragons material from 1981-83 contributed by Kevin Campbell.  This is why we offer drafting classes in high school, people.  I suggest they be mandatory.

Something Harn related.  

 Seriously fantastic dungeon draftsmanship.

This drawing could live a double life in the sketchbooks of a third generation Minimalist.  It's beautiful.

A lawful evil monastery.

Dragon turtle!

C'mon, this is so well done.  

Fast and loose is just as beautiful as careful finishing. 

The oracle is immune to all attacks.  Over.

"Eviscerated by a curiously skilled kobold fighter..."

Contributor James Brigham has donated about eighty documents created in Indianapolis between 1993 and 2011.  The games played range from various D&D versions to Warhammer Fantasy to GURPs and Aces and Eights, and are mostly made up of character sheets which have seen various amounts of use.   There is a good selection of scribbly GMnote sheets created during game play, tracking hit points and spell use and character stuff. 

Here are some highlights:

 

Note the names:  Scooby Doo and Mountain Dew.  

 

Running game notes and math is always a favorite of mine.   

 

These people ordered some fancy pizzas.  I wonder about the order in which this

paper was written out.  I can't help but feel that the the scrawled pizza order

must have come AFTER the carefully written list of character deaths, because why 

would anyone write such a nice list on a piece of sullied paper?  But that doesn't make sense 

because the list was begun on the lower half of the paper...

 A sweet map that has seen a lot of use.

 

Mysteries abound.  Is this about the game, or about a player, or completely unrelated?

 

It took me a minute to figure out that the circle in the middle represents a complex

piece of topography.  I'd initially seen it as a confusing cartoon face.  

 

I'm not sure if this is a homebrew character sheet or not.

 

 

There are some pretty amusing little drawings in this donation packet.  

 

An Ohio/Penn fundraiser for PlaGMaDA, November 17th

The amazing folks over at the Penn-Ohio Chapter of North Coast Gamers are having their 2nd Annual Penn-Ohio Roleplayathon, a 24 hour game event raising funds for a good cause.  This year they've chosen the Play Generated Map and Document Archive, a fantastic show of support by a gamer-led organization for the archive. 

This sort of generosity and support is humbling and wonderful.  Thank you.

The event is on November 17th in Garrettsville, Ohio.  Here's the link:

http://www.meetup.com/North-Coast-Gamers-Penn-Ohio/events/76713562/

Four Hours to Go on the Kickstarter...

...or at least there will be that much left by the time you read this. 

Run, don't walk, over to:  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/timh/the-habitition-of-the-stone-giant-lord-and-other-a

With the goal of $4200 we'll be able to do a good print run with fancy covers, and if we somehow pull $10,000 there will be an awesome game party/book release in NYC.

OSR Kickstarter, home stretch

Hey folks,

So the Habitition of the Stone Giant Lord & Other Adventures from Our Collective Youth is in the last three days.  The big goal is $4200 which would let us do a print run of 500 copies with a fancier cover and more pages.  Help us make it! 

Wired article, free party this Sunday, all is good in the world

Big news for us:  A spot on the project in Wired magazine, written by Mark Wallace.  Keep an eye out for the web version!

Big news for you:  A book release party in Brooklyn to celebrate the release of Everything is Dolphins by Ray Weiss.  This Sunday at Shea Stadium BK at 20 Meadow Street, games start at 5pm and music starts at 8.  Free admission, all ages, bring some dough because you know you're just going to have to buy a t-shirt or two.

Kickstarter:  We are overjoyed to announce that the Habitition of the Stone Giant Lord & Other Adventures from Our Collective Youth has quadrupled its admittedly modest funding goal.  Help us get to our next goal, which will let us do a traditional print run with more pages and a fancy cover.

And don't miss a post about all this over at The Mule Abides, it's sure to horrify and charm. 

Kickstarting the Habitition of the Stone Giant Lord

So a Kickstarter is running until October 10th for The Habitition of the Stone Giant Lord & Other Adventures from Our Collective Youth.  Go here

• Launched: Sep 20, 2012
• Funding ends: Oct 10, 2012

In 1981, 13-year-old Gaius Stern wrote and illustrated The Habitition of the Stone Giant Lord in imitation of TSR’s Dungeons and Dragons adventure modules. The Habitition is a true labor of love, typed and drawn as a DIY addition to the “Against the Giants” series of modules, part time capsule and part outsider art.

From The Habitition of the Stone Giant Lord by Gaius Stern

As art, its text and image show how a creative teen made his own contribution to the genre of roleplaying adventures, but where most such books were the work of a writer, a crew of play-testers, editors, and a stable of artists, Stern went it alone. As a time capsule, it provides a window on a particular way Dungeons & Dragons was played at a particular time.

Stone Death cover, by Richard Benson

PlaGMaDA and The Hutchingsonian Presents are putting together a collection of adventures written by young people in the 1980s. The focus is on game modules written by players, including their carefully made maps and painstaking illustrations, framing the sort of adventures we played back when we were kids. Help us print this full color book, it'll be great!

If we meet our goal we will be producing a full color, soft cover book at a POD facility in the United States.  If we meet our bonus goal we will do a traditional print run.  Thanks for your help!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/timh/the-habitition-of-the-stone-giant-lord-and-other-a