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Sham's D&D Cover to Cover
« Thread Started on Nov 6, 2011, 1:49pm »

Some people here might be interested in this...

I just finished reading Sham's wonderful D&D Cover to Cover series of blog posts (on the 3LBBs). I put together an annotated index here:

http://untimately.blogspot.com/2011/11/shams-cover-to-cover.html

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like he got through TU&WA, but nonetheless it is still a great series of posts. I'm sure lots of people here have already seen it, but if you haven't it is worth your time.

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Re: Sham's D&D Cover to Cover
« Reply #1 on Nov 7, 2011, 1:18am »

Thank you very much for compiling that. It's so useful I've bookmarked it.

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Re: Sham's D&D Cover to Cover
« Reply #2 on Nov 7, 2011, 6:20am »

That is a nice summary of links. Thanks for posting it!

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Re: Sham's D&D Cover to Cover
« Reply #3 on Nov 7, 2011, 8:59am »

One of the weaknesses of blogs is that interesting posts can drift and get lost and they aren't easily navigable. So this is a nice effort on a worthwhile blog series. Well done.

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Re: Sham's D&D Cover to Cover
« Reply #4 on Nov 7, 2011, 9:13am »

I actually lost steam with that series very early into Vol III. Lots of good stuff in that last book that is still crying out for a read-through. I have a half written post or two on my old computer...no plans to pick up where I left off just yet though.

I've said before that the best parts of that series were the reader comments.

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Re: Sham's D&D Cover to Cover
« Reply #5 on Nov 7, 2011, 9:43pm »

I'm glad it's useful to others as well. Staples over at Grognardling called this an exercise in blog archaeology, which I think is a good way of putting it. There is such a wealth of info out there in OSR space.

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Re: Sham's D&D Cover to Cover
« Reply #6 on Nov 23, 2011, 8:05pm »

Prompted a re-reading from the beginning of the blog - good stuff Sham! I became curious while reading if you were still playing very much, and how the Meetup stuff played out.

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