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HAWK & MOOR - Book 1 - Deluxe Edition - The Dragon Rises
Publisher: Kent David Kelly
by A customer [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 01/29/2018 09:11:49

A well-researched history of D&D. This book has taken the highlights of numerous podcasts and interviews with key people and condensed them into a solid history of the formation of D&D.

Provides a great complement to other histories that have already been written.

If you liked Of Dice and Men or Playing at the World, you will like this book.

Highly recommended!



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HAWK & MOOR - Book 1 - Deluxe Edition - The Dragon Rises
Publisher: Kent David Kelly
by Andrew J. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 12/31/2017 17:06:21

Being born after the founding of D&D, I have never thought of myself as someone who is interested in the story of the game's creation. (I started playing 2nd Edition AD&D in the early 90s.) Having said that, I really enjoyed how the author was able to transport me back to a time that I had never lived through, and make me feel like I was a fly-on-the-wall seeing the story play out before me. Though he probably takes more than a bit of artistic freedom to narrate the details of game nights that happened 40+ years ago, I totally loved how it felt like I was there. He also does an awesome job of describing the personalities of the founders of D&D and then illustrating how their quirks had an effect on defining how the game came to be what was when I started playing.

I'm not a historian on the subject, or even a faux historian, blogger, forum commentator, etc. so I can't comment on how accurate the picture is that the author creates. He does take the time to reference all of his info, though, and comes out and admits it when he is filling in the gaps (with the game-night details, for example). The end result is a well-crafted story that smoothly scuttles its way across the pages from factual bits to descriptive narratives.

The book is also an interesting read from a game designer perspective as it shows how play-testing results in changes to rules and codification of recurring themes. The creators of D&D went from a loose framework of large-scale mass battle rules and filled in just enough details to be able to describe a dungeon-delving adventure through tables, rolls and sloppy penmanship on scratch-paper character records... Literally, from mom and dad's basement to the world's best-selling fantasy RPG.



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HAWK & MOOR - Book 1 - Deluxe Edition - The Dragon Rises
Publisher: Kent David Kelly
by John K. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 08/01/2017 09:08:06

I received the Kindle version (the Trilogy with the first 3 books combined) for my birthday and have read the first two volumes. I got the pdf versions here while they were on sale. This version (the PDF) is better in that it has the illustrations and footnotes at the bottom of each page. The Kindle version has footnotes at the back of all three books with no hyperlinks to/from the footnotes, which makes for difficult navigation. Both versions (Kindle and PDF) could benefit from an active table of contents and hyperlinks to/from footnotes. Overall the author shows excellent research into the history of D&D, with documented citations. There are a few typos throughout but not to the extent that it is unreadable. In fact, while very detailed, it reads quite fluidly. Also I found the author to be quite objective about the various people and events involved.



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