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The Book of Monsters by Phil Edgren. 40pp Digest-size book with card cover. Published in 1976 by Little Soldier Games, Rockville, Maryland. Republished in 1978 by Gamescience Corporation. Later included in The Fantasy Gamers Compendium published by Gamescience Corporation in 1990.
Supplement describing 100 monsters from historical myth and legend, but with no gaming statistics. Image and description courtesy of John Pleveich. First print image courtesy of John Card. |
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The Book of Demons by Phil Edgren. 52pp Digest-size book with card cover. Published in 1976 by Little Soldier Games, Rockville, Maryland. Later included in The Fantasy Gamers Compendium published by Gamescience Corporation in 1990.
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The Book of Sorcery by Dan Bress and Ed Konstant. 48pp Digest-size book with card cover. Published in 1977 by Little Soldier Games, Rockville, Maryland. Later included in The Fantasy Gamers Compendium published by Gamescience Corporation in 1990.
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The Book of Mystery by Bob Liddil. 48pp Digest-size book with card cover. Published in 1978 by Little Soldier Games, Rockville, Maryland. Later included in The Fantasy Gamers Compendium published by Gamescience Corporation in 1990.
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The Book of Shamans by Ed Lipsett. 68pp Digest-size book with card cover. Published in 1978 by Little Soldier Games, Rockville, Maryland. Later included in The Fantasy Gamers Compendium published by Gamescience Corporation in 1990.
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Book of Treasure by Phil Edgren. 68pp Book with cardstock cover. First published (Digest-size) in 1978 under the Little Soldier Games label. Republished (Full-size) in 1978 by Phoenix Games Inc., Rockville, Maryland. Later included in The Fantasy Gamers Compendium published by Gamescience Corporation in 1990.
Lawrence Schick wrote "Supplement describing 200 treasure items, 100 magical and 100 technological." Heroic Worlds. |
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Ed Konstant was kind enough to provide a little history about The Little Soldier and Little Soldier Games. Here is what he had to say.... The Little Soldier was founded in 1975 in Maryland by Ed Konstant and David Perez (not Phil Edgren -- Phil owned Attic Books, around the corner from The LittleSoldier. The Little Soldier spurred the creation of Little Soldier Games with the publication of "The Ringbearer," rules for a fantasy miniatures game that some people (including the legal eagles at United Artists) considered was based on Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings." Two editions were published before UA issued its warning to cease and desist. "The Book of Monsters" was next. The idea for it came from Ed Konstant and Dan Bress (it was the first book to focus excluisively on a wide range of monsters for fantasy role-playing games -- many of them from mythology). Because Phil Edgren had a background in mythology and was a first-rate researcher, he wrote the book. Three years, and several fantasy and historical game publications, later a new company called Phoenix Games was formed. Phoenix had nothing to do with The Little Soldier. It was created by Dan Bress and Phil Edgren. Ed Konstant still had a couple of projects left in him ("The Book of Fantasy Miniatures" and "Elementary, Watson"), which Phoenix Games published. By the way, the covers and illustrations for the "Book Of" series were done by Bob Charette, who went on fromn thereto acquire a reputation as a first-rate fantast genre artist. Those were days of fond memory. Dan Bress eventually went into the computer and game software business. Ed Konstant went back to being a Washington joiurnalist and now writes novels. Phil Edgren -- no idea where he drifted. |
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