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TLB Games was founded in association with Three Line Studios to produce the El Raja Key Archive. This DVD contains a treasury of high resolution images of materials from the collection of game designer Rob Kuntz. Rob was there when Dungeons & Dragons was created and served for years as Gary Gygax's own Dungeon Master as well as his co-DM for the Original Greyhawk Campaign. Now you have the opportunity of a lifetime to peek behind the veil of history to play and discover what it was like in those early days of D&D through the artifacts of time.

Contained within the Archive are over 1,000 high resolution scans of adventures, maps and keys, campaign notes, character sheets, and manuscripts from the Original Greyhawk and Kalibruhn Campaigns. That's right from the very creation of Dungeons & Dragons!

Includes all maps & some keys for Rob's Castle El Raja Key, the dungeons where Gary Gygax cut his teeth as Mordenkainen; Rob's manuscript for his lost Dungeons & Dragons Supplement V: Kalibruhn; maps, keys, and notes for over 40 adventures from the Original Greyhawk and Kalibruhn Campaigns including, maps & some keys for 16 of Rob's Original Greyhawk Castle levels, the map for the first ever D&D demo, the Machine Level, at GenCon VII in 1974, and the map for the first ever D&D tournament, Sunken City, and notes, NPC cards, and adventure maps and keys for the Original City of Greyhawk!

The El Raja Key Archive is an interactive, searchable, fully indexed, virtual museum of roleplaying game artifacts from the dawn of the Dungeons & Dragons game! Along with the high resolution images of these treasures is extensive historical commentary that is fully linked to our searchable index. The El Raja Key Archive uses your internet browser interface to navigate just like surfing the 'net. It can be used on virtually any computer that has a internet browser and a DVD drive (or optionally, a USB port).

In addition to the El Raja Key Archive, TLB Games also publishes Three Little Books Adventures, a line of smaller than digest-sized, "Little" adventure booklets that provide essential companion material for the complete, partial, and incomplete adventures found on the El Raja Key Archive DVD. However, since the full-color and sometimes quite large maps are on the Archive DVD, the modules themselves are more economical in size and cost.

These savings allow us to print our Three Little Books Adventures with an old-school, offset printer, that matches the quality, look, and feel of the classic TSR Hobbies adventure modules. Like Patch Press in Beloit, Wisconsin, that printed TSR's products, our printer, Print Co., is a family owned business and our print-man, Troy Reding, is the son of the founder. Like the Patch brothers, Fran and Bryce, he sweats press oil and print-ink runs through his veins.

As Troy led me through the building we passed through a dim little room with what looked like five photocopiers placed end-to-end. There wasn't anyone in this room. He said that was their digital press, the kind print-on-demand websites use to cheaply produce a pile of booklets or one or two at a time when ordered.

Then we walked into the press-room where dozens and dozens of workers, were color proofing, loading, unloading, and inking plates, moving massive rolls of paper with fork-lifts, running printing presses, collating, and cutting machines, packaging up orders on pallets, and buzzing happily around the brightly lit room. The place smelled of machine oil and printing ink. This! This was the sort of place to have our old-school modules printed!

Gary Gygax insisted on quality with TSR modules and hardcover rulebooks and it showed. Gary knew this cut into the profit margin but he felt it was essential to make gaming aids durable and able to stand up to years of heavy usage—it was a matter of pride in workmanship—like Gary's own work as a humble cobbler.

Sadly, as Gary lost influence and eventually the company itself, the quality of TSR's product declined to the point where the quality of TSR's products were the butt of many a joke. The ones produced under Gary's watch were built to last. Indeed, if any one roleplaying game rulebook could survive the nuclear holocaust we all feared in the eighties it would be the Dungeon Master Guide!

TLB Games is with Gary on this 100% and with Rob Kuntz writing our adventures you will get quality old-school product inside and out!

Our print-man, Troy, showing us the machine producing the interiors of our modules.

When talking to my friend, legendary artist Dave Sutherland III, before his death in 2005, he was describing going down to Patch Press to oversee the production of TSR adventure modules. He said the place was humming with activity and they were producing the booklets and covers on a massive offset printing press. He said with awe, "Heidelberg Speedmaster—German—so fast and scary, like a giant gray train, thundering along."

Imagine how pleased we were when Troy, our print man, showed us the machine that was churning along like a high speed train, producing the covers of our TLB Games adventure modules—a Heidelberg Speedmaster!

These sturdy cardstock outer covers, in addition to their beautiful art and graphics front and back, are separate and can stand up on their own to be used as an old school dice shield or to hide a small notebook for DM notes.

Heck, even our TLB Games logo is old-school! Drawn by the late Jim Roslof in 1980 as a freelance submission, it was rejected by TSR and buried in Jim's personal files for the next 36 years. It was recently rescued from obscurity, re-inked by Tomas Prulberg out of Germany, and, with the purchase of the rights from the Roslof estate, symbolizes a return to Old School gaming for the next generation.

In addition to the El Raja Key Archive and Three Little Books Adventures, we also plan to have premium, full-color print-outs of the maps available for purchase, including the larger poster-sized maps at 18 x 22 inches! Currently we have copies of the Original Greyhawk Castle, Bottle City map, a beautiful heavy-stock poster eminently suitable for framing. The printed image of the map measures 18.5 x 22 inches (slightly blown-up from the original 17.5 x 22) and the outer edge measures 22 x 27 inches. This dungeon map is a work of old school art and demonstrates the true genius of master, mega-dungeon cartographer, Rob Kuntz!

EL RAJA KEY ARCHIVE

The El Raja Key Archive DVD has four different editions: Basic, Standard, Deluxe, and Collector's.

The Basic Edition is intended for the gamer who wants a chance to play or run some of the original adventures created for the World of Kalibruhn and Original Greyhawk Campaigns at the dawn of the Dungeons & Dragon phenomenon.

This edition comes with images of mostly maps with some keys and notes of nearly 40 original adventures and dungeon levels. A quarter of these are useable just as they were written during the founding days of roleplaying games for some old school gaming goodness! However, the El Raja Key Archive DVD realizes its full potential when used with our new Three Little Books Adventures line. These smaller than digest-sized, "Little" adventure booklets provide essential companion material for the complete, partial, and incomplete adventures found on the El Raja Key Archive DVD. However, since the full-color and sometimes quite large maps are on the Archive DVD, the modules themselves are economical in size and cost.

The Standard Edition is intended for the gamer who wants all of the adventure materials found on the Basic Edition but desires a little more of the flavor of the Kalibruhn and Original Greyhawk Campaigns, the expanded commentary, original PCs and NPCs, campaign notes, regional and detail maps, magic items, and many other heirlooms that will be indispensable in capturing the wonder of those early days.

This edition too is perfect for the designer, historian, and researcher, providing an incredibly comprehensive look at the way the game was played at this seminal time. In addition to the hundreds of pages of campaign materials mentioned above, the timelines, expanded commentary, historical documents, memoirs of game play, and resume of Rob's work, will prove to be an indispensable resource and all at your fingertips in one concise collection.

The Deluxe Edition is for the gamer, designer, historian, researcher, and collector! This edition contains everything on the Standard Edition but tucked inside the DVD case is a brand new, smaller-than-digest-sized adventure module K1 Sunken City: First Print by Rob Kuntz, the very first Dungeons & Dragons GenCon tournament module—ever—used at GenCon VIII in 1975! This is the first in a series of collectable modules designed to be compatible with the materials on the El Raja Key Archive. Also included is a K1 Sunken City: Deluxe Print with a different cover and an incredibly cool, all new encounter area inside: The Tower of Night! A mini-module in itself! This unique version of the module will never be offered separately and must be purchased as part of the Deluxe Edition of the Archive!

The Collector's Edition is for the collector extraordinaire! This edition contains everything found in the Standard Edition and Deluxe Edition but also includes an autographed and numbered K1 Sunken City: Collector's Print with a different cover and an incredibly cool, all new encounter area inside: The Tower of Night! Only 100 numbered and autographed Collector's Print's will ever be made! You will only be able

to get this unique autographed and numbered version of the module with the Collector's Edition of the Archive!

UPGRADE YOUR El Raja Key Archive

If you have purchased a Basic Edition but wish to have access to a higher level version of the Archive, never fear! You may purchase an upgrade by returning your original copy as proof of purchase and get your new upgraded edition for only the difference plus shipping! If you have purchased the Standard or Deluxe version and wish to upgrade, you may simply purchase it for the difference plus shipping.

See ORDERING below.

EL RAJA KEY Archive Three Little Books Adventures & PREMIUM MAPS

Currently we have the following adventure modules available or planned for publication in the near future with more to come:

• K1 Sunken City: First Print—GenCon VIII D&D tournament module from 1975! What lurks in the drowned ruins of the Sunken City?

• K1 Sunken City: Deluxe Print*—With a variant cover and an incredibly cool, all new encounter area inside: The Tower of Night!

• K1 Sunken City: Collector's Print**—Same content as Deluxe Print but with variant cover and limited to 100 numbered and autographed copies!

• K2 Ice Grave—A caravan of your countrymen has been savagely attacked. Whomever or whatever did this has been tracked to the Ice-Tower of Oq-Yog!

• K3a Journey to the City of Brass—DragonCon '87 RPGA tournament module. Characters dare the burning lands of the Plane of Fire to reach the fabled City of Brass!

• K3b Into the City of Brass—The long awaited adventure into the City of Brass and conclusion to K3a Journey to the City of Brass.

• K4 Lair of the Spider Queen—A classic outdoors adventure from the Original Greyhawk Campaign. Trapped in the verdant horror—hunted by the Spider Queen!

• K5 Citadel of the Fire Lord—An adventure to the Plane of Fire where players uncover the fate of the efytars—fire-nymphs—and challenge the Fire Lord himself!

* Available only with purchase of El Raja Key Deluxe or Collector's Editions (or upgrade, see above)

** Available only with purchase of El Raja Key Collector's Edition (or upgrade, see above)

These are part of our new Three Little Books Adventures line. These smaller than digest-sized, "Little" adventure booklets provide essential companion material for the complete, partial, and incomplete adventures found on the El Raja Key Archive DVD. However, since the full-color and sometimes quite large maps are on the Archive DVD, the modules themselves are economical in size and cost. Despite these savings, our Three Little Books Adventures are printed with an old-school, offset printer, that matches the quality and trade dress of the classic TSR Hobbies adventure modules. Our sturdy cardstock outer covers, in addition to their beautiful art and graphics front and back, are separate and can stand up on their own to be used as a dice shield or to hide a small notebook for DM notes. Heck, even our TLB Games logo is old-school! Drawn by the late Jim Roslof in 1980 as a freelance submission, it was rejected by TSR and buried in Jim's personal files for the next 36 years. It was recently rescued from obscurity, re-inked by Tomas Prulberg out of Germany, and, with the purchase of the rights from the Roslof estate, symbolizes a return to Old School gaming for the next generation. We also plan to have premium, full-color print-outs of the maps available for purchase, including the larger poster-sized maps at 18 x 22 inches! Currently we have copies of the Original Greyhawk Castle, Bottle City map, a beautiful heavy-stock poster eminently suitable for framing. The printed image of the map measures 18.5 x 22 inches (slightly blown-up from the original 17.5 x 22) and the outer edge measures 22 x 27 inches. This dungeon map is a work of old school art and demonstrates the true genius of a master mega-dungeon cartographer!

See ORDERING below.

ORDERING

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