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Old 02-27-2017, 02:36 PM   #122
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Bundle of Holding has an interesting new offer which is a departure from their usual tabletop RPG gamebooks:

Designers, Dragons, and More consists of non-fiction about the history and design of games and player culture.

The prize draw in this is the 4-volume Designers & Dragons, which was a Kickstarter-funded history of D&D and spinoffs and imitator RPG games and the gaming industry throughout the decades, for which you can download a substantial preview chapter about TSR (Wikipedia, one of the major companies) on the publisher's website. Apparently there was a whole bunch of entertaining backstabbing drama going on in the industry, according to some of the reviews.

There's also a history of the gaming convention GenCon (Wikipedia), and some books where designers discuss their top 100 hobby and family games (not just RPGs, but also including classic board games).

This seems pretty interesting even though I personally don't do tabletop RPG, but I really like micro-histories, so I splurged. Top-tier is currently under $19, and there doesn't seem to be a way to top up the lower pledge for the basic level, so be sure which one you want, and the 4 Designers & Dragons books are available in an ePub/Mobi/AZW3/PDF bundle, while the others are PDF only.

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