Shannon Appelcline, author of Designers & Dragons and Designers & Dragons Origins joins me to dig into the hidden history of the RPG industry: Gygax's abandoned plan for the GDQ series, the Chaosium Mythos collapse, and why both designer-run and business-run companies have historically crashed for opposite reasons.
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Topics We Cover
Introduction / Hawaii and Finding a Gaming Group
Why Dolmenwood, and What Makes It Different from D&D
Sword & Sorcery vs. Epic Scale — Where D&D Lost the Thread
Gary Gygax's Unrealized Plan for the GDQ Series
The RPG History Boom — Oral Records Before It's Too Late
The Satanic Panic and the Downfall of Journalism
Gary's Appendix: The Zine Model That Actually Works
What Is the OSR Now? The Retro-Clone Era Was Shorter Than You Think
The OSE Demons Month, Crowdfunding Complexity, and Running Lean
How Kelsey Dionne Built Shadowdark the Right Way
Shannon's Origin: RPGnet, the Wizards Article That Crashed a Server, and Drive Thru RPG
Inside the Chaosium Collapse
Greg Stafford, Pendragon, and Designing Outside the Norm
The State of the Industry: How Wide It's Gotten
The Demon Article for Gary's Appendix #10
Designers & Dragons Origins and What's Next
