Mazes & Minotaurs

I “know” Scott Oden from The REH Forum, and I have his first two books, Men of Bronze and Memnon (although – sorry, Scott! – I haven’t read them yet).

Anyway, I was reading his blog, and came across this post, which is so cool I thought I’d steal it!

To cut a long story short — a longer story is on Scott’s blog, obviously, but the full story is here — French game designer Olivier Legrand, with inspiration and help from veteran game designer and ancient historian Paul Elliott, has created an alternat[iv]e version of Dungeons & Dragons, as if Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson had been inspired far more by Greek myth than by Howard, Leiber, Tolkien, Anderson et al.

Mazes & Minotaurs has a fictional publishing history stretching back to 1972 and even a 1987 revision (corresponding to AD&D)! But several books exist (in PDF format) for both versions and are free to download.

How cool is that?