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Oeva Jean Wells Koebernick (July 25, 1955 – January 25, 2012) was an American writer, artist, and editor in the field of role-playing games.She was the first female game designer to be hired by TSR, Inc.
A dwarf, in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy roleplaying game, is a humanoid race, one of the primary races available for player characters.The idea for the D&D dwarf comes from the dwarves of European mythologies and J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955), and has been used in D&D and its predecessor Chainmail since the early 1970s.
[3]: 8 Kuntz was the sixth employee of TSR and was initially hired to work in shipping, but because of the small size of the company, everyone got a chance to do some design work, allowing Kuntz to co-author the Greyhawk supplement (1975). [3]: 240 Kuntz also co-authored Gods, Demi-Gods & Heroes (1976) with James M. Ward.
Castles Forlorn was published by TSR, Inc. as a boxed set containing one 96-page book, two 32-page books, one double-sided 32" x 21" map sheet, one single-sided 32" x 21" map sheet, and one 32" x 21" poster. [1]
DragonQuest is a fantasy role-playing game originally published by Simulations Publications (SPI) in 1980. Where first generation fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) restricted players to particular character classes, DragonQuest was one of the first games to utilize a system that emphasized skills, allowing more individual customization and a wider range of options.
Against the Giants is an adventure module written by Gary Gygax and published by TSR in 1981 for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.It combines the G series of modules previously published in 1978: Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl, and Hall of the Fire Giant King.
Dungeon Floor Plans was published by Games Workshop in 1979 as 12 color cardstock sheets. [1]Games Workshop wanted to extend its publishing beyond White Dwarf and reprinting products from America, with some of their first original products being their pads of Character Sheets (1978) and Hex Sheets (1978), and the accessory Dungeon Floor Plans (1979), each of which was printed with the Dungeons ...
In 1982, TSR published Pharaoh as a thirty-two-page booklet with two outer folders, for the first edition of AD&D. [ 7 ] : 101 It was designed for 6-8 player characters of levels 5-7 [ 10 ] and formed the first of the three-part Desert of Desolation module series.