THE CREATION of the world's preeminent Fantasy Role-Playing Game (FRPG), Dungeons & Dragons, is one of the most fascinating tales to be told in all the shared histories of entertainment, play and game design. Two very different men, David Lance Arneson and Ernest Gary Gygax, undertook an unprecedented collaboration which gifted us - as their shared legacy - with one of the most intriguing games the world has yet experienced. Their game did not just simulate one isolate corner of reality; it dared to encompass the entirety of all realms of adventure, the consensual playground of the human imagination. HAWK & MOOR tells the story of Dave and Gary, and the many other people whose efforts gave first life to the game we know and love today. Arneson had spectacular ideas, but Gygax knew how to refine them. Collaboration soon turned to conflict as Arneson believed his game was being taken from him, and Gygax crystallized systems where incomprehensible riddles had stood before. Both men were creative geniuses, but the game they created from Gygax's Chainmail (1971) was the end result not only of their teamwork, but also of their clashes and disagreements. The HAWK & MOOR series chronicles that first legendary game to arise from the Golden Age of Fantasy Role-Playing. Herein you will find Gary's life story, the history of Gen Con and the Castle & Crusade Society, and details concerning the conception of Castle Greyhawk. This first book also includes new revelations pertaining to Arneson's Blackmoor and its influences; tales from the Blackmoor Dungeons and Loch Gloomen; details on Gary's first dungeon adventure; an exploration of the links between H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and the earliest underworld adventures; the secrets of the asylum which inspired Castle Greyhawk; and much more. HAWK & MOOR Book One, The Dragon Rises, includes 76,000 words on over 200 pages, supported by a detailed chronology and 403 footnotes and annotations. The adventure begins here. Prepare yourself, take up torch and sword. Come along and experience an unprecedented journey into the Golden Age!

ケント・デイヴィッド・ケリーによる本書は、単なる記録を越え、二人の天才の「想像力の衝突」が生んだ叙事詩です。アネソンの奔放な着想とガイギャックスの緻密な体系化。相反する才能が対立の果てに一つの世界を編み上げる過程は、創造という行為が持つ残酷さと崇高さを鮮烈に描き出しています。 著者はＤ＆Ｄの誕生を、人間の冒険心と想像力が結実した文学的事件として捉えています。ダンジョンという暗闇の原点を紐解く筆致は情熱に満ち、読者を「合意による想像力」の黄金時代へと誘います。遊びという枠組みから新たな神話が生まれる瞬間を、ぜひその目で見届けてください。