![]() ![]() For months afterward I had nightmares and constantly looked over my shoulder looking in the shadows for nasty things. ![]() The hard part was that those books are truly scary. There were other writers of that type of genre, like August Derleth, but Gary Gygax and I talked it out and decided to just use the plentiful Lovecraft material. I had to read all of the Lovecraft books. The hardest section to write was the Cthulhu mythology. I wanted to add more value to the new work, than what was in the first pantheon version. I had my own reference books from the last time I designed the pantheons and I spent more hours and hours in the library, again taking notes and ordering books from other libraries. I wrote all of the material for the book during one summer vacation in 1979. I was a History and English teacher in Prairie Du Chien at the time, with a family of three young boys and a pleasant wife. ![]() This time around for the 1980 release of the book there was a lot more known about role-playing and I included those features in the work. Rob Kuntz was supposed to do half of the writing, but was busy with other things and I ended up writing most of it. Naturally, when AD&D came out the idea to update the gods book was given as an assignment to me. Note from Morrus - this is the fourth of Jim Ward's series of articles here on EN World! Upcoming articles include TSR's Amazing Accounting Department, and The Origin of Monty Haul!
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