The Basic D&D line is entirely chronicled in the latter two volumes of Designers & Dragons: Origins, now on Backerkit ... with just 67 hours left!

Ultimately, we can only leave behind our stories and how we impacted others. Rebecca impacted many.

I was especially surprised because RQ's ducks (and therefore Dragonbane's ducks) are mentioned in the Free League article I was editing last week, so they've been in my head. (But the Chaosium article was written 10+ years earlier.)

"At that time Disney was suing the pants off the Air Pirates for copyright infringement of Micky and Donald, and I was concerned that they might even hunt down and kill such small peanuts as me, so I changed the name to be Duck Point."

"William Church (ie- Wilmskirk), Steve Swenston (ie- Swenstown) and Brian Christ*, who owned a comic store in Santa Rosa, CA. I asked Brian what he wanted his town named, and he said,
'Duckburg.'

From basicroleplaying.org/topic/321-du..., quoting Greg

"The ducks entered Glorantha because of my fan collaborators when I published WB&RM. I was publishing the fanzine Wyrd at that time, and the collaborators were: ...

I knew the Duck Point story and am shocked to see it's not in Designers & Dragons.

I flagged it for inclusion in third edition. I should devote a little bit of space to some of the unique elements of Glorantha like that.

The Designers & Dragons: Origins backerkit has just three days to go!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

I just got the gorgeous cloth map from Dolmenwood and was figuring out how to mount it without damaging it.

Frames, of course!

Where we're going, we don't need roads.

Oh, right, a link.

We've got less than a week less for Designers & Dragons: Origins, and we're less than $2,000 off the next stretch goal: another addition to the backers-only preview!

Also: Al Dentes and Demi-glaces.

(Ah, the good 'ole Platers Handbook and its companions, the Dining Masters Guide and the Mastication Manual.)

Now that I can compare the Otus & Trampier work to the more mass-market covers that followed, I can recognize its unique, amazing, indie spirit.

I'm so happy @goodmangames.bsky.social , Kenzer & Companies, and others have been supporting the creation of new Otus masterpieces.

I'm at about 1,400 out of 3,500 words on the article.

But writing for Wyrd Science is intimidating because the quality of the content is so high: even after I finish writing, I'm going to need to do some serious polishing to make it shine.

I've been writing it at night. (The old habit of an RPG writer in the real world.)

Last night I closed w/:

"Though TSR would often trail other companies in publishing innovations as the hobby grew, they were definitely out first here. It took until summer for the next few publications to appear."

John mentions that I'm working on a new article, for #8, and he's right. At the moment it's called: “Have You Ever ‘Zine?”: A Media History of RPG Periodicals

But I've been overly busy lately with the Designers & Dragons: Origins crowdfunding and some extra work from tech writing clients so ...