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Post Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 2:10 am 
 

Is there a chronological TSR product list?

I can do a rpg.net search and sort by date, which seems to be pretty accurate, but they're not as comprehensive as other sites. Anybody else already do this sort of thing?


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Post Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 2:13 am 
 

Hrm. Seems I didn't trust my google-fu enough after some failed searches. More searching revealed a couple lists:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rp ... lmost.html

http://members.tripod.com/~phammer/dndlist0.html


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Post Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:40 am 
 

I've worked on one for old TSR products, basically working off David's white box & booklets list he had started as well as help from others.  Don't touch the file to much these days, only sent it to a few.  I do know of someone doing a BECMI list of products in a similar way.  I hope to incorporate it into my work.

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Post Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:50 pm 
 

Guy, this spreadsheet of D&D products might help you.

  

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Post Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 6:09 pm 
 

Echohawk wrote:Guy, this spreadsheet of D&D products might help you.


That's useful.  Though I see different printings are not shown.

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Echohawk wrote:Guy, this spreadsheet of D&D products might help you.

Wow!

Out of curiosity -- and if you know -- how accurate are the months for the items? Do they track release month, first mention of the product in an advertisement, or something different?


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Post Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 4:13 am 
 

Plaag wrote:That's useful.  Though I see different printings are not shown

Alas not, although I have pondered adding them. That spreadsheet started -- as these things tend to -- as a list to help me manage my own collecting habits, and I'm not too fussed about different printings (sacrilege, I know!) so those didn't make it onto the list.

  


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Guy Fullerton wrote:Out of curiosity -- and if you know -- how accurate are the months for the items? Do they track release month, first mention of the product in an advertisement, or something different?

They are supposed to be the release date of the product, and they are as accurate as I could make them when I was compiling the list. (Which does not mean that they should be taken as gospel!) For the later products (everything from about 1994 onwards) the dates should be pretty accurate. For older products, I tried to establish the release month based on Dragon magazine adverts, copies of old product catalogs and online research (go Acaeum!). Occasionally I was forced to guesstimate the release month of one module in a series based on the known release dates of others in the same series. And you may notice that some entries have a date 19XX-12-31. That means I couldn't narrow the date down at all beyond the release year.

If I was starting that spreadsheet again from scratch, I'd use three separate columns for the date, and include only confirmed date information (so where only the year is known, the month and day would remain blank). But that spreadsheet has grown organically over a couple of decades, so I didn't know that that would be useful when I started it :(

In case you are curious, that product spreadsheet is actually part of my larger Complete D&D Monster Index, which aims to be pretty much that :)

  

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Post Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:25 am 
 

Echohawk wrote:In case you are curious, that product spreadsheet is actually part of my larger Complete D&D Monster Index, which aims to be pretty much that :)


That spreadsheet is awesome, had it for a while now :)

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Post Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:31 am 
 

The date info makes sense. The monster index looks cool too! :)


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