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Knighthood ceremony (Jean Elizabeth Martin, AD&D 2e supplement DMGR2: The Castle Guide, TSR, 1990)

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Tamiya, Inc, announced that their chairman Shunsaku Tamiya has died at age 90. Tamiya has long been a leading producer of plastic model kits and hobby supplies, and their 1:48 military models are popular with wargamers.

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Strange encounter (Elrohir, aka Kenneth Rahman, The Space Gamer 11, Metagaming, July/August 1977)

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Beast rider traverses the briars (Elrohir, aka Kenneth Rahman, The Space Gamer 12, Metagaming, July/August 1977)

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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a vulcan face – forever.

Star Trek Mr. Spock Bop Bag - Azrak-Hamway International (1975)

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The far future of Traveller and the post-war near future of Twilight: 2000 appear on William H Keith Jr's cover art for Challenge magazine no 25 (Game Designers' Workshop, 1986). "No. 25" actually was the first issue of this magazine, which replaced The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society which GDW ended with No. 24. Through issue 33 Challenge mentioned "Incorporating the Journal" on the cover.

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"These are the generals of the armies that will fight in Ral Partha's Chaos Wars -- the leaders around whom the forces of good and evil will rally." Warlords, early and later box art for Ral Partha's set #10-414, with 10 miniatures sculpted by Bob Charrette and Julie Guthrie for the 1987 Chaos Wars rules. The first box also shows an AD&D endorsement.

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Searching for Carcosa (John Kingsbury, Alarums and Excursions 157, Sept 1988)

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Something to check out -- A book by a fellow cataloguer of older game ephemera

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Gather 'round, children, and I'll tell you tales of ancient tomes (Stephen F Schwartz, AD&D adventure “The Curse and the Quest” by Craig Barrett and Christopher Kederich, Dungeon 26, TSR, Nov/Dec 1990)

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The party vs . . what the hell is that? (Stephen F Schwartz for AD&D adventure "The Curse and the Quest" by Craig Barrett and Christopher Kederich, in Dungeon 26, TSR, Nov/Dec 1990) "Shimmering wraths" are "combined nonliving energies created from the Negative material plane and the elemental plane of Lightning," capable of coalescing into man-sized forms and attacking with electrical damage.

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Low, low, low-level character (Peter Paul, Different Worlds 14, Chaosium, September 1981)

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Space Marines, tactical ground combat game for sci-fi miniatures by A Mark Ratner -- This is the 1980 2nd edition by Fantasy Games Unlimited with Jeff Dee's cover art. FanTac Games first published these rules in 1977.

In the past few days Games Workshop has sent another round of cease and desist letters to 3D sculptors, many of whom were making full scale 40K costume parts. They are of course within their rights to make those claims over specific designs and names, but I'm always reminded how aggressively they used to go after anyone using the words "space marines," claiming to have invented the concept and the name.

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"Meet me on Pier 32 tonight at 11:00. You've got something I want, and I've got something you want. I propose we make a trade." Spoiler: The cultist contact is not alone, but has a Formless Spawn of Tsathogghua waiting to greet the party. Steve Purcell illustrated Darren Tschida's Call of Cthulhu adventure "The Eye of Sitar," set in San Francisco in 1922, in Different Worlds #38, Chaosium, Jan/Feb 1985.

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I've alway been so charmed by the murderous rabbits in medieval marginalia. and now, they will be enamel pins!

these are up for pre-order at greerstothers.shop

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Jeffrey Catherine Jones' 1968 cover to Swords Against Wizardry, by Fritz Leiber

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The Legend Of SWORD DOG