Judges Guild's Bob & Bill: A Cautionary Tale
Book Details
Author(s)
Bill Owen
Publisher
Game Design
ISBN / ASIN
B00OFJY7Z6
ISBN-13
978B00OFJY7Z5
Sales Rank
#1,033,210
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
Updated & expanded, third edition detailing Judges Guild & time with Bob Bledsaw, a History by Judges Guild co-founder, Bill Owen.
Subjects--Background of Bill Owen as an early wargamer in the 60's & 70's--Meeting Bob Bledsaw, our Dungeons & Dragons campaign days--false start with the forgotten role-playing game system that was out of this world--Personal pictures and scans of one-of-a-kind play aids--wild ride on the JG tiger particularly from 76-78--goofs & cautions for other gamer/entrepreneurs--with Bob after JG & favorite games--updating with more text, photos and maps of the original color Tegel Manor drawn by Bob in 1975 and excerpts of the oldest remaining blueprint draft of City State from 1976 when it was first called No-Name City, Middle Earth. New text material brings up to date found memories, realizations and observations of the revival of JG in the Kickstarter.
Details: roughly equivalent to 96 pages, 36,287 words, 328 black & white/color/duotone photos/scans from 1965-2014 many never seen before publicly, some from Bob Bledaw Jr & JG archive. For this edition, additional images were added to the 2008 letter-sized and 2011 hardback editions.
Subjects--Background of Bill Owen as an early wargamer in the 60's & 70's--Meeting Bob Bledsaw, our Dungeons & Dragons campaign days--false start with the forgotten role-playing game system that was out of this world--Personal pictures and scans of one-of-a-kind play aids--wild ride on the JG tiger particularly from 76-78--goofs & cautions for other gamer/entrepreneurs--with Bob after JG & favorite games--updating with more text, photos and maps of the original color Tegel Manor drawn by Bob in 1975 and excerpts of the oldest remaining blueprint draft of City State from 1976 when it was first called No-Name City, Middle Earth. New text material brings up to date found memories, realizations and observations of the revival of JG in the Kickstarter.
Details: roughly equivalent to 96 pages, 36,287 words, 328 black & white/color/duotone photos/scans from 1965-2014 many never seen before publicly, some from Bob Bledaw Jr & JG archive. For this edition, additional images were added to the 2008 letter-sized and 2011 hardback editions.
