I played my first D&D game in 1976, but did not explore the Chainmail supplement. In the mid-80's, I found a copy of Chainmail 3rd edition. Soon, we had a group of guys playing Chainmail every Wednesday night. Our armies were 25mm, and I often fielded an Ottoman Turk army. We had a blast for a year or so. Good games and good memories!
This was immaculately well-researched to the point I'm sad that there will be crowds who see it and just not get it. Thank you for putting this together. I'm actually going to save a copy of this video for my hard drive. Documentary on Gary's Castle Greyhawk sometime, perhaps?
The troll at 11:20 is a converted 54mm Marx Indian figure from the Fort Apache playset. It was originally a "medicine man" dancing - but the gong in the left hand was removed, the rattle in the right made into a bone, the figures kilt-like clothing carved off and the buffalo hat horns removed. Then a nose and ears were added at it was painted black.
Very informative and well made documentary! Interesting for me to see that Germany, a complete wargaming backwater due to the (understandable) rejection of everything too miitaristic after 1945, has at least contributed to the birth of the hobby of fantasy gaming through Elastolin figures (and, of course, the ancient and medieval Ochel flats of Tony Bath's famous Hyboria campaign).
Nice to see the recognition to Dave Arneson's Blackmoor, in my opinion truly the very first roleplaying game as we know it and the ancestor to our beloved Dungeons & Dragons.
I agree. It is fair to say that this doc names D&D as the first world's *published* role-playing game. Blackmoor was clearly the first one be played though.
I just had wished our rules guy would've not been interested in talking to some guy for most of the game and never helped out to play the game. Set up late and just didn't seem to care at all.
I played my first D&D game in 1976, but did not explore the Chainmail supplement. In the mid-80's, I found a copy of Chainmail 3rd edition. Soon, we had a group of guys playing Chainmail every Wednesday night. Our armies were 25mm, and I often fielded an Ottoman Turk army. We had a blast for a year or so. Good games and good memories!
Seems like there is an issue with the audio between 7:10 and 9:23. Otherwise great video!
Maybe it got muted for copyright.
I thought I was going mad
Ok I thought I was going crazy there too
Thanks for the time stamps.
I’m sad it loses audio.
This was immaculately well-researched to the point I'm sad that there will be crowds who see it and just not get it. Thank you for putting this together. I'm actually going to save a copy of this video for my hard drive.
Documentary on Gary's Castle Greyhawk sometime, perhaps?
The troll at 11:20 is a converted 54mm Marx Indian figure from the Fort Apache playset. It was originally a "medicine man" dancing - but the gong in the left hand was removed, the rattle in the right made into a bone, the figures kilt-like clothing carved off and the buffalo hat horns removed. Then a nose and ears were added at it was painted black.
at 8:13 there are more Marx Indian figures that were converted into monsters -these from the figure with the tomahawk raised and the "mohawk" hair.
Note: The photo at 21:38 is a Napoleonic game, not a fantasy/Chainmail game.
Anyone else the sound drops out at 7:07?
YT copyrighting
Is it me, or is there sound missing?
"At last some FUN for the war gamer!"
Wow, that really puts a lot into perspective.
Boys want to use their imagination, not just simulate a scenario.
Anyone knows which brand are The Vikings at The minute 0:50 ? And if somehow they're still available to Buy among other Miniatures.
Fantastic video, so well researched, documented, and presented
I'll have to try it next year at GaryCon
This is amazingly researched and produced. Shocked to only 6.8k views. Expected easily 10x that number if not more
Great doc!
Please remix the vid, it deserves it.
I’ve learned quite a bit from this video, including why the name Chainmail was chosen, if only subconsciously: GG was a chain smoker.
Very nicely done!
Now this is a quality documentary!
A well-crafted history.
Why does the audio cut out?
Very informative and well made documentary! Interesting for me to see that Germany, a complete wargaming backwater due to the (understandable) rejection of everything too miitaristic after 1945, has at least contributed to the birth of the hobby of fantasy gaming through Elastolin figures (and, of course, the ancient and medieval Ochel flats of Tony Bath's famous Hyboria campaign).
This is fantastic. Good stuff.
Nice to see the recognition to Dave Arneson's Blackmoor, in my opinion truly the very first roleplaying game as we know it and the ancestor to our beloved Dungeons & Dragons.
If you are interested, check the documentary Secrets of Blackmoor which goes into detail on Arneson's work.
I agree. It is fair to say that this doc names D&D as the first world's *published* role-playing game. Blackmoor was clearly the first one be played though.
This was cool to watch.
A part of de audio is missing, from 7:07 to 9:23. Great video otherwise.
Argh. I don’t know if we have a back up.
I just had wished our rules guy would've not been interested in talking to some guy for most of the game and never helped out to play the game. Set up late and just didn't seem to care at all.
:)
So it sounds like Gygax just kept publishing other people's ideas and taking credit?
Ideas are cheap till there is someone who works really hard to get them into publish worthy shape.
Yes, and others also took ideas from others if you dig deeper.