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Formed by Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz in 1970, the Castle & Crusade Society was a chapter of the International Federation of Wargaming dedicated to medieval miniature wargaming. Gygax's interest in medieval warfare led him to create the Castle & Crusade Society as a special interest group within the IFW. Gygax's interest had turned to miniature games, so he and co-creator Jeff Perren put together a set of medieval miniatures rules for publication in a C&C fanzine called ''The Domesday Book''; the name of their new rules was "Chainmail".〔 Its starting membership included Gary Gygax, Rob Kuntz and Jeff Perren, and as of mid-April 1970, also included Dave Arneson. The C&CS published a newsletter called the ''Domesday Book''. Its first issue is dated March 1, 1970; both the first and second issues are only a single page long. As of the third issue, membership stood at only nine persons; circulation of this newsletter would never exceed eighty copies. The fifth issue contained a set of rules called the LGTSA Medieval Miniatures rules which would be expanded and published by Guidon Games as Chainmail in 1971; this being one of the primary predecessors of the original ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game. Issue #9 contained a map of the Great Kingdom, the campaign environment in which the cities of Blackmoor and Greyhawk were first initially developed for the purposes of a C&CS play-by-mail game. Issue #13 of the ''Domesday Book'' published some early details, as well as a map, of Blackmoor from Dave Arneson's first fantasy role-playing campaign in July 1972. This article was reprinted almost verbatim in the First Fantasy Campaign (1977), with slightly altered map art. The (Castles & Crusades Society ) officially re-launched as an online society dedicated to supporting and promoting gaming, especially RPGs, in 2008. ''The Domesday Book'' was re-launched with new, quarterly editions beginning in April 2008. ==References== * (Index to issues of The Domesday Book ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Castle & Crusade Society」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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