1. The History of Roleplay
Written and produced by Rich Hunt
Narrated by Rich Hunt

2. • Ancient Times
Little Wars
• 1913
(A Game for boys from twelve years
of age to one hundred and fifty and
for that more intelligent sort of girl
who likes boys’ games and books)
• 1953 •Tactics, Charles S Robert

3. • 1960
• 1966
• 1980

4. • 1974
• 1975 • Empire of the Petal Throne
• Tunnels and Trolls
• 1976 • Chivalry and Sorcery
• 1977 • Traveller

5. • 1974
• 1975 • Empire of the Petal Throne
•Copies and Trolls
Tunnels Time to Year:
Sell Out 1979
First 1000 1 year #
• 1976 • Chivalry and Sorcery copies/
month:
• 1977 • Traveller 6 months
Second 7000
1000

6. • 1979 • James “Dallas” Egbert III
• 1982 • Irving “Bink” Pulling
• Patricia Pulling
(Not actual picture)

7. • 1984 • Trial of Darren Molitor
• 1990
• Pulling Report (Michael Stackpole)

8. • 1981: Call Cthulhu
• 1984: Dragonlance
• 1984: Toon
• 1984: Paranoia

9. • 1988: Cyberpunk
• Here begins the Nineties
• 1991: Vampire: the Masquerade

10. • Present Day…
• 1992: Over The Edge
• 1996: Feng Shyi
• 1996: Hong Kong Action Theatre
• 1997: Big Eyes, Small Mouth
• 1998: Unknown Armies
• 2004: New World of Darkness
• 2008: Dungeons and Dragons

11. Media Sources http://ptgptb.org/0001/history1.html
• Thanks• About the Author… biggest influence on this project, its extended
to the following Flicker The single
Folks: PhillipC, Ed Yourdon, explanation (and constant promises of ending!) made for a
Uriel 1998, wsilver, Torley, good read and a valuable resource.
spina, kuba dzi, quin.anya,
theotherway, jamesnfishwick, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSR,_Inc.
Emmanuel LATTE, A brief Wikipedia article about TSR.
Opensource Obscure, http://www.rpgstudies.net/stackpole/pulling_report.html
michaelk42, olarte.ollie,
kensanata, pashasha, Sam
The infamous Pulling Report, which spelt the end of the dark
Howzit, Mr Thinktank, age for role playing.
colinmford, Peter Alfred Hess, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Wars
pareeerica, richardmasoner, A Wikipedia article about the book, Little Wars.
blotron, Marco Gomes,
jakobbg, Andre Luis, creo que http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=M9dshxV-
soy yo, Fluffgar, benimoto, T0cC&dq=little+wars&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en
Antikris, pnoeric &ei=H3UfTI32NIbw0gSfyqimDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=r
• Picassa People: Shawn esult&resnum=4&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=fal
Vincent se
• Others: Alan De Smet, Dave The book, Little Wars.
Pape http://www.skepticfiles.org/ignor/isue02d.htm
• All other media taken from Darren Molitor’s essay on D&D.
public domain