Tag Archives: TSR

TSR’s John Carter Minatures Warfare Game (1974)

Posted on February 8, 2012 by VicSage

I’m looking forward to Walt Disney’s John Carter next month, I’m hoping it will at least contain a glimmer of what made me fall in love with Edgar Rice Burrough’s books so many years ago. What I’ve seen from the … Continue reading →

Endless Quest Books

Posted on September 8, 2010 by The Retroist

The Endless Quest books were two series of gamebooks released by TSR in the 1980s and 1990s. These books were the result of an educational group established by TSR to develop curriculum programs for reading, math, history, and problem solving. … Continue reading →

Welcome to D&D Basic Training

Posted on September 6, 2010 by The Retroist

Ahh the Red Box. I remember when I got mine for Xmas, I ran upstairs to my bedroom and played with the dice for a few minutes and then I sat in my bed and read the whole thing from … Continue reading →

The New Easy to Master Dungeons & Dragons

Posted on June 16, 2009 by The Retroist

In 1991, TSR unleashed this kind-of-fun-to-play simplified Dungeons & Dragons board game upon the world and the above ad was in every comic book for months. When they “easy to master” what they meant is that they basically took out … Continue reading →