Dungeons & Dragons Book The Making of Original D&D: 1970 - 1977

Fifty years on, this is the closest you'll get to sitting at the table where it all began. The Making of Original D&D: 1970–1977 gathers the rare documents behind the birth of Dungeons & Dragons — drafts, letters, fanzines and first printings — with historian Jon Peterson walking you through what you're looking at and why it matters.

What's inside

• Gary Gygax's 1973 first draft of original D&D, typed at home and annotated by hand by both Gygax and Dave Arneson — never released to the public before
• Facsimiles of every first printing of the 1974 'white box' booklets and supplements, collected in one volume for the first time
• Around 30 early articles and rare documents, including unpublished correspondence between Gygax and Arneson
• Magazine and fanzine pieces many of which are no longer publicly available anywhere else
• Insightful commentary throughout from Jon Peterson, one of the game's foremost historians
• English Language Version

Part archive, part detective story, it's the definitive record of how a Wisconsin wargaming experiment became the world's greatest roleplaying game — published to mark D&D's 50th anniversary.

An essential shelf piece for any serious D&D fan. Explore the full Dungeons & Dragons range for everything the hobby has become since.

Edition & compatibility: A standalone 50th-anniversary history book reproducing the original 1970s documents — not a rules product, nothing else needed.