Beware - Tetsuya Nomura Syndrome is a very real disease with no treatment and is universally terminal.

...borger

All great resources for learning the history and the culture surrounding ttrpgs and their vaunted 50 year history.

Also the Dragonlance novels - but that'll seem pretty generic in 2025.

(Also, Girl Genius by the Foglios. It's just neat.)

There's also a collection of the Dragon Magazines Ecologies and a long running article series "The Monster Hunters Association." Both the same thing, but the MHA articles frame the monster ecologies in a short story framework.

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30 Years of Adventure - also WotC. A great top-down retrospective with insight from the likes of Vin Diesel.

What's New? With Phil and Dixie by Phil & Kaja Foglio. A comic that ran in Dragon Magazine from its inception that lampoons many of the tools and tricks of the trade. Easy online find ->

Been playing DnD for thirty years - not bragging, just a data point. I recommend:

Stu Horvath - *Monsters, Aliens, & Holes In The Ground.* A tremendous history of ttrpgs, with interviews.

Arts & Arcana, WotC publishing. A visual history through all of the history from Chainmail thru current ->