D&D Supplement 2.5: POTPOURRI?

[murquhart72]

From The Strategic Review #4:

Heaps of material have been received, and we do plan to publish most of it. Here's how: Some will eventually be aired here in SR. We are also seriously considering the production of a D&D supplement authored by "DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ENTHUSIASTS EVERYWHERE", edited by Gygax, Arneson, and possible Kuntz also, for that will be a big job. Each contribution would be credited to the appropriate author, and contributors would receive several free copies of the booklet. Bear with us, and meanwhile keep on sending in all that excellent work! Even though there isn't any way we can acknowledge it, it is greatly appreciated.

How cool would this have been? This issue came out just before BLACKMOOR, I wonder what happened to go from there to ELDRITCH WIZARDRY? Maybe Geoffrey should go back in time and submit some Carcosan lore to TSR c.1975? WHERE'S MY FLUX CAPACITOR? Did I leave it in the other TARDIS?
What would some things that you'd like to contribute to such a hypothetical booklet be? Myself: Probably the stuff I've posted here under Creature Feature or my Moons of Metal/CROM posts.

[simrion]

A case could me made that this idea became Dragon Magazine, at least as far as AD&D is concerned. I had a good friend submit and have published his Ecology of the Displacer Beat article. TSR was certainly open to fan base submissions in the 1980's. I pine for what the Moldvay/Cook/Marsh Companion book (teased in the Expert volume) would have looked like.

[murquhart72]

Ha, that would essentially mean this supplement DID finally get published: As Unearthed Arcana

[foxroe]

There is also the likely possibility that some of the submitted material made it into AD&D... so Unearthed Arcana wouldn't be too far off.