Spending time with the material
September 26, 2025 A wild find at a comic book store yesterday: The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons, a doorstop volume, devoted almost entirely to reproductions of early versions of the game, from typewritten drafts to published booklets. This isn’t just a breezy review, but a presentation of deep archival material. I pored over the book for hours, enjoying the edits in pencil, the 1970s paste-up design. I read out of order, flipped back and forth, skimmed and scanned, jotted n