Designers, Dragons, and More

From Jan 2015, the history and highlights of the tabletop roleplaying hobby

Designers, Dragons, and More

DESIGNERS & DRAGONS, the GAMES 100 books, and Gen Con!

Starter Collection - $7.95

  • Designers & Dragons: The '70s
  • Family Games: The 100 Best
  • 40 Years of Gen Con

Bonus Collection

  • Hobby Games: The 100 Best
  • Designers & Dragons: The '80s
  • Designers & Dragons: The '90s
  • Designers & Dragons: The '00s

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Designers and Dragons the Nineteen NinetiesAdventurer! For a third time we've resurrected the January 2015 Designers, Dragons, and More Bundle, a fine collection of .PDF ebooks that chronicle the history and highlights of the tabletop roleplaying game hobby. History is important to roleplayers. Whether you're new to RPGs and looking for recommendations, or a grognard feeling nostalgic, you'll enjoy this revived collection about our greatest games and their origins.

Designers and Dragons the Nineteen SeventiesFor just US$7.95 you get all three titles in this revived offer's Starter Collection (retail value $35) as DRM-free ebooks:

  • Designers & Dragons: The '70s: The first volume in Shannon Appelcline's history of RPG publishers (now supported by the Designers & Dragons Patreon campaign). This debut installment covers Dungeons & Dragons, the turbulent history of TSR, and the first generation of RPGs. Foreword by Greg Stafford.
  • Family Games: The 100 Best: A hundred famed designers review and discuss their favorite games: Blokus, Can't Stop, Gloom, Kill Dr. Lucky, Prince Valiant, and dozens more.
  • 40 Years of Gen Con: A photo-filled anecdotal reminiscence, compiled by Robin D. Laws, of the hobby's leading US convention. It's the best four decades in gaming!

Hobby Games The One Hundred BestAnd if you pay more than the threshold price of $18.96, you'll level up and also get this revival's entire Bonus Collection with four more titles worth an additional $40:

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Starter Collection

Pay the minimum price to get these titles:

Designers & Dragons: The '70s

1970-79: TSR, Glorantha, Traveller, The Fantasy Trip
  • Author(s): Shannon Appelcline
  • Evil Hat Productions, 386 pages
  • Retail price $10

Family Games: The 100 Best

Blokus, Can't Stop, Gloom, Kill Dr. Lucky, Prince Valiant, Scotland Yard, Werewolf, and dozens more
  • Author(s): James Lowder (ed.)
  • Green Ronin Publishing, 400 pages
  • Retail price $10

40 Years of Gen Con

The best four decades in gaming
  • Author(s): Robin D. Laws
  • Atlas Games, 168 pages
  • Retail price $15

Bonus Collection

Beat the threshold price to LEVEL UP and ALSO get this entire collection of BONUS titles:

Hobby Games: The 100 Best

From "Amber Diceless Roleplaying" to "Wiz-War"
  • Author(s): James Lowder (ed.)
  • Green Ronin Publishing, 400 pages
  • Retail price $10

Designers & Dragons: The '80s

1980-89: GURPS, West End, Palladium, Cyberpunk
  • Author(s): Shannon Appelcline
  • Evil Hat Productions, 390 pages
  • Retail price $10

Designers & Dragons: The '90s

1990-1999: World of Darkness, Wizards, Warhammer 40K
  • Author(s): Shannon Appelcline
  • Evil Hat Productions, 406 pages
  • Retail price $10

Designers & Dragons: The '00s

2000-2010: D20, Pathfinder, the indies
  • Author(s): Shannon Appelcline
  • Evil Hat Productions, 443 pages
  • Retail price $10

A historic collection worth $75!

...But you pay just US$7.95 for this revived January 2015 offer's Starter Collection with the first volume of Designers & Dragons, Family Games: The 100 Best, and 40 Years of Gen Con, all as non-watermarked, DRM-free .PDF ebooks. And by paying more than the current threshold price of $18.96, you also get four more bonus histories, including three later volumes in the Designers & Dragons series plus Hobby Games: The 100 Best.

Bundle of Holding titles are always absolutely free of DRM, so you can move and copy them freely among all your devices.

Historians all

Here's what others have paid for our bundle

Number of bundles sold
244
Total contributed
$4,783.94
Threshold (level-up) price
$18.97

To keep the starting threshold price from rising too quickly, we calculated it based on 400 fake sales at $17.95 each.

LEADING SCHOLARS: Our most generous customers

  • Most Learned: HungryCats - $50
  • Most Published: Glen Engel-Cox - $26
  • Most Cited: Thucydides - $25

Tenure track:

  • Edward Gibbon
  • J.T. Evans
  • Fernand Braudel
  • ibn Khaldun
  • Xenophon
  • The Venerable Bede

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