All eight installments for the first time ever in English
Publisher's blurb:
In 1986, Hitoshi Yasuda was approached by the editors of Comptiq magazine to write a series of articles about the origins of RPG games and specifically “D&D,” to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the Japanese release of Dungeons & Dragons.
Yasuda settled on the “Replay” format, thinking it the most illustrative of actual game play, and contacted Ryo Mizuno, a fellow member of gaming Group SNE to serve as Dungeon Master. Mizuno agreed and created an original campaign for Yasuda and five other players from Group SNE to serve as a showcase for the game.
The setting was an accursed island full of monsters, magic and adventure. The island was called “Lodoss” and thus was born “Record of Lodoss War.”
This book is an English translation of those original Record of Lodoss War replays as they appeared in Comptiq magazine from September 1986 to April 1987. The serialization has never been available in English before, and in fact, after the initial magazine run in Japan, it was never reprinted due to copyright issues. So what you have in your hands is a very rare thing indeed.
The popularity of “Record of Lodoss War” led to two additional serializations in Comptiq (Part II from June of 1987 to July of 1988 and Part III from September 1987 to September 1988), a series of compilations and books by Mizuno, Yasuda and Group SNE, two RPG systems (Record of Lodoss War ロードス島戦記ハンドブック and Sword World RPG (1st Edition)), as well as several manga and anime series. Its impact on the Japanese fantasy genre has been transformative.