Ancestors

Written by S. John Ross on 2024-12-31 at 23:17

I don't do resolutions, but I do have a hobby project for 2025: I want to try to find the earliest published #HTTRPG adventure.

My general loose timeline has long been "HTT existed commercially from the early 80s to the early 90s, then faded out of existence before 2000."

And I've got lots of little datapoints supporting that as a general handwavy thing. But I'd like to plant some more precise flags for the earliest.

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Toot

Written by S. John Ross on 2024-12-31 at 23:25

I don't think this will reveal an "inventor" of the form. As with trad itself, I don't think that's a thing. It was just an approach that made a kind of contextual sense, and for certain types of gamer it had some degree of appeal ... so it just happened, at a lot of tables, and it made its way into a few books along the way, inevitably.

Commerce killed it for more concrete, measurable reasons. But I don't think anything so definite brought it into the world.

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Descendants