EARLY DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ROLE-PLAYING SUPPLEMENT LOT OF 14.
Item Description
This lot contains 14 different Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplements from the beginning years of the hobby. Dates range from 1977 to 1982. Publishers include Judge's Guild, Chaosium and TSR Hobbies, Inc. Of note is a three-volume set of the classic supplement "The Arduin Grimoire" by David Hargrave, which contain extensive charts and matrixes for building all aspects of of a fantasy role-play world and its inhabitants. Overall VG/Fine, with some higher and a few lower.
Lot includes the following -
Digest-sized three-volume softcover set of David Hargrave's Arduin Grimoire (1977-1978), an early rules supplement to the original TSR Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Each volume contains a wealth of charts and tables to add depth to characters, monsters, equipment and settings.
Guide To The City State by Bob Bledsaw and Bill Owen, published by Judge's Guild in 1976. Detailed 56-page booklet contains hundreds of statistics for characters, places, rumors, charts, tables and rules for the City State of the Invincible Overlord. Small hole on back cover and last page and a bit of staining to the back cover.
Dungeons & Dragons Reference Sheets 20-page loose booklet published by Tactical Studies Rules c. 1976. This game supplement puts all the spell tables, treasure types, equipment costs, random encounter tables and other statistical charts in one small volume. A few pencil/ink marks.
Initial Guidelines Booklets I, J and L trio, published by Judge's Guild, 1976. These role-playing supplement booklets contain a wealth of detail about characters, places, items and more to flesh out Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. Center wrap of Booklet J is inverted as published.
Two sets of loose-leaf pages to compile All The Worlds' Monsters by Jeff Pimper and Steve Perrin, published by The Chaosium, 1977. Detailed pages contains hundreds of monsters to encounter in a fantasy role-playing game. Combined in a three-ring binder, these sets would make up pages #1 to 106, plus bonus material.
Campaign Hexagon System booklet, published by Judges Guild, 1977. Booklet of light-gray hex fields is ideal for use in mapping. Hexes are numbered and .3" in size, making them .2 mile for the standard Dungeon & Dragons 5-mile wilderness hex. Additionally, the booklet has six pages of tables for generating forests, wilderness encounters, flora and fauna, terrain features and the other myriad details of a wilderness campaign. Pages #9 -24 (blank hex-map sheets) are missing.
Sea Steeds And Wave Riders supplement booklet #66 by Dave Sering, published by Judge's Guild, 1978. 32-page booklet w/extensive technical descriptions, historical information on the cultures which used various watercraft/equipment and other gaming aids. Suitable for use w/any medieval or fantasy role-playing system currently in print, and ideal for Dungeon Masters wishing to expand their gaming horizons into maritime traffic and trade, and ram-and-cutlass naval warfare. No Campaign Maps or Ship Diagrams.
Wilderlands Of High Fantasy 16-page Guideline Booklet Issue O, published by Judge's Guild, 1977. 16-page compendium includes many tables to randomly generate encounters and more and is also a key to five different campaign settings. No Campaign Maps.
Fiend Folio: Tome Of Creatures Malevolent And Benign 128-page hardcover book, published by TSR, 1981. This extensive role-playing game supplement consists of new monsters, mostly created by Dungeons & Dragons players. Wrinkling to the spine and creasing to the bottom left corner.
