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''Chainmail'' is a medieval miniature wargame created by Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren. Gygax developed the core medieval system of the game by expanding on rules authored by his fellow Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association (LGTSA) member Perren, a hobby-shop owner with whom he had become friendly. Guidon Games released the first edition of ''Chainmail'' in 1971 as its first miniature wargame and one of its three debut products. ''Chainmail'' was the first game designed by Gygax that was available for sale as a professional product. It included a heavily Tolkien-influenced "Fantasy Supplement", which made ''Chainmail'' the first commercially available set of rules for fantasy wargaming, though it follows many hobbyist efforts from the previous decade. ''Dungeons & Dragons'' began as a ''Chainmail'' variant, and ''Chainmail'' pioneered many concepts later used in ''Dungeons & Dragons'', including armor class and levels, as well as various spells, monsters and magical powers. ==Early history== Gary Gygax's personal interest in medieval wargaming rules was sparked after witnessing a game of the ''Siege of Bodenburg'',〔(Interview with Gary Gygax @ Gamebanshee )—Gygax refers to the game as ''Siege of Bodenstadt''〕 at the first Lake Geneva Wargames Convention (Gen Con) in 1968. ''Bodenburg'' was serialized in the wargaming magazine ''Strategy & Tactics'' the previous year, and required various 40 mm Elastolin miniatures, including a large castle setpiece. Gygax first inquired publicly about purchasing these figures early in 1969. Gygax furthermore began work on a medieval board wargame called ''Arsouf'', based on the Battle of Arsuf, which he serialized in ''Panzerfaust'' between April and July 1969 (later, the game was repackaged under the title ''Crusader''). Moreover, Gygax wrote a series of articles about ancient and medieval wargaming in the ''International Wargamer'' starting in October 1969 in which he repeatedly acknowledged his appreciation for Tony Bath's medieval wargaming rules. Eventually, his interest drove Gygax to form the Castle & Crusade Society of the International Federation of Wargaming as a Society dedicated particularly to the exploration of the medieval wargames setting. Early in 1970, the LGTSA purchased a considerable number of Elastolin figures, which motivated Jeff Perren to develop four pages of his own rules for these miniatures which focused on mass combat. He introduced the rules to Gary Gygax and the LGTSA. Gygax initially adapted the rules with slight modifications for publication in ''Panzerfaust'' (Vol. 5 No. 1, pg.4-8) as the "Geneva Medieval Rules." Just three months later, Gygax had expanded them further still, and published them in the fifth issue of the ''Domesday Book'', the newsletter of the Castle & Crusade Society.〔(The Acaeum: Domesday Book )〕 Nearly simultaneously, Gygax republished these extended rules in the August 1970 issue of the ''Spartan International Monthly''. Relatively few medieval miniature wargame systems were in circulation at the time, and these rules attracted much interest to the Castle & Crusade Society. In subsequent issues of the ''Domesday Book'', further rules for medieval wargames appeared, covering jousting and individual combat. Gygax and Perren's set of medieval miniatures rules from ''The Domesday Book'' brought Gygax to the attention of Guidon Games, who hired him to product a "Wargaming with Miniatures" series of games. Towards the end of 1970, Gygax worked with Don Lowry to develop the first three products for the new Guidon Games wargames line. Among the three was a pamphlet of medieval rules entitled ''Chainmail'' which adapted much of the medieval rules published in the ''Domesday Book''. Late in the development process—Gygax would later call it "an afterthought"—Gygax added to the end of ''Chainmail'' fourteen pages of a "Fantasy Supplement" which detailed the behavior of Heroes, Wizards, dragons, elves and various other fantastic creatures and people. First edition ''Chainmail'' saw print in March 1971. It quickly became Guidon Games's biggest hit, selling one hundred copies per month. A second edition would follow in July 1972, with several expansions and revisions to the original game. The January 1972 issue of the ''International Wargamer'' initially published the most significant of these changes, including the splitting of the "Wizard" type into four distinct levels of spell casters. The cover art of ''Chainmail'' is a swipe of a Jack Coggins illustration from ''The Fighting Man''.〔(Source of the Chainmail Cover Art ) at the Playing at the World blog, retrieved May 2013〕 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「Chainmail (game)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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