The History of D&D

25. Gary Gygax – Dungeon Geomorphs Set One: Basic Dungeon (1976)

One of the first practical accessories for D&D, meaning that it wasn’t a rule book, but something you could actually use to construct dungeons as a DM. This collection of printed modules for building a Dungeon are quite fun, and an idea which is still in use in some way or another. You can trace…

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One of the first practical accessories for D&D, meaning that it wasn’t a rule book, but something you could actually use to construct dungeons as a DM. This collection of printed modules for building a Dungeon are quite fun, and an idea which is still in use in some way or another.

You can trace a straight line from this to stuff like the recent D&D Campaign Case: Terrain, modular accessories which can be put together to create a map for your players. There are a couple of pages with instructions on how to do it. 

2 responses to “25. Gary Gygax – Dungeon Geomorphs Set One: Basic Dungeon (1976)”

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    talaraska

    Never had the budget for these as a kid. We would often resort to drawing our own graph paper in the backs of school notebooks. I think a lot of younger folks these days don’t realize that graph paper was tricky to come by back then.

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      Yup! Particularly when you can just print it out for free nowadays

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