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Post by Vile Traveller on Mar 29, 2015 1:37:50 GMT -6
I never know where to put threads on the boxed set, as opposed to the individual three booklets, so here goes. Anyway, this is more a bit of trivia than the contents, so maybe this is the most appropriate place. You may have heard the tale before that the first ever sale of a boxed set was actually made to the creator of Glorantha and thereby RuneQuest, Greg Stafford. The story is up on his new website here: www.staffordcodex.com/the-first-dd-game-ever-sold/ |
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Post by xerxez on Mar 30, 2015 22:34:56 GMT -6
Pretty neat!
Wish I had it.....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2015 23:10:40 GMT -6
Well, I've got the second. I picked it up in Gary's basement in December 1973.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2015 21:27:17 GMT -6
No offense, but how can the story possibly be confirmed?  Because, if it can't, then I PICKED UP THE FIRST D&D GAME EVER!  Not my original set; just a picture I found on the Web. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2015 21:27:45 GMT -6
(I love Greg Stafford, but, hey, this one was easy. ) |
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Post by scalydemon on Mar 31, 2015 21:30:23 GMT -6
I was -1 in 1973 Wasn't me man!  I do like looking at woodgrain box sets though.. |
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Post by tkdco2 on Apr 1, 2015 1:35:36 GMT -6
No offense, but how can the story possibly be confirmed? Because, if it can't, then I PICKED UP THE FIRST D&D GAME EVER! Not my original set; just a picture I found on the Web. That cat looks a lot like my own. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2015 3:02:31 GMT -6
Did you then "pick up the first cat ever"? (Good God, I am going to hell for this...  ) |
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Post by rastusburne on Apr 1, 2015 3:05:26 GMT -6
I read this earlier today. Interesting if it's true.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2015 3:16:13 GMT -6
Personally, I am quite curious about why Stafford would take pride in this; in his foreword to the recent two-volume guide to Glorantha,
he made it pretty clear that he considered D&D inferior to his own creations, and IIRC with a certain harshness in tone that I personally considered uncalled for.
Now, this might now be Geek God Syndrome, in that he wants to have been everywhere, and to have done everything -
or, more likely, his stance against D&D is perhaps not as negative as it came through on other ocassions.
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Post by rastusburne on Apr 1, 2015 3:21:21 GMT -6
It's probably not dissimilar to the rivalry held between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs (when he was alive). Both are giants in their field, approaching their area in quite different ways. They didn't hate each other, but they were competing.
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Post by Falconer on Apr 1, 2015 15:02:52 GMT -6
Well, RuneQuest was the un-D&D, but still, without D&D there would be nothing to un-!
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Post by Finarvyn on Apr 2, 2015 5:35:20 GMT -6
An interesting story, but I suspect it's really hard to prove or disprove. Gronan, at least, was known to be there a lot. Rob Kuntz was known to be there a lot. I would have guessed that the first ever sale would go to one of those guys, unless of course any got comp copies for helping with playtest or whatever.
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Post by grodog on Apr 3, 2015 23:39:14 GMT -6
Well, Bergamot Brass manufactured the original TSR Lizardmen and later RGPA/etc. belt buckles for TSR, so that checks out. I've heard this story before as well, though not personally from Greg. I'm inclined to believe it, FWIW  |
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