That is the argument of Luuk van Middelaar in his new book "Alarums and Excursions".
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Weeks later, after a frenzy of coding, rigging, and seasickness, Project Pequod — renamed at the last to the allegedly catchier Twitter I will not dwell overlong on the alarums and excursions of our subsequent seafaring; the rise and fall of Captain Costolo; Queequeeg's fate.
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Lee Gold is an author, editor, game designer, and filk musician. In 1975, Gold founded Alarums and Excursions, a monthly amateur press association for RPG writers. She has served as editor ever since. Alarums and Excursions won the Charles S. Roberts Award for Best Amateur Wargame Magazine in 1984, and the Origins Award for Best Amateur Game Periodical in 2000, 2001, and 2002.
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The first issue of Alarums and Excursions appeared in June 1975, the title taken from an Elizabethan drama stage direction that moved soldiers across a stage. In addition to removing roleplaying games discussion out of APA-L, the initial aim of the publication was to prevent roleplaying games from becoming so divergent that people from different cities couldn't participate in games together. The June 2017 collation of Alarums and Excursions was #500, with a color cover drawn by Lee Moyer and printed by Rob Heinsoo.
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Alarums and Excursions (A&E;) is an amateur press association (APA) started in June 1975 by Lee Gold; publication continues to the present day. It was one of the first publications to focus solely on role-playing games.
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After Wizards, Heinsoo designed the 13th Age RPG. He designed 13th Age with Jonathan Tweet, the lead designer of 3rd Edition D&D.; Heinsoo and Tweet are close friends who have played tabletop games together for years. Rob Heinsoo also contributes to Alarums and Excursions.
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On returning to civilian life, Agate pursued his career as a theatre critic. In 1919 he published a second book of essays, Alarums and Excursions."Agate, James Evershed", Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007. Accessed 16 May 2010 (requires subscription).
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Hargrave also frequently contributed to various magazines such as Different Worlds, Alarums and Excursions, and Abyss. As a game designer, he authored various Call of Cthulhu adventures for Chaosium, Inc., and was an integral part of the design team for the sci-fi game Star Rovers, among others.
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The first role-playing game published, Dungeons & Dragons (1974), did not include a character sheet. The first one ever published was in the Haven Herald fanzine of Stephen Tihor in May 1975. One month after, another character sheet was released in the APA magazine Alarums and Excursions. TSR published its first set of Character Record Sheets for the basic Dungeons & Dragons game in 1977.
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A gazebo. "The Tale of Eric and the Dread Gazebo" is a role-playing game- inspired anecdote, made famous by Richard Aronson (designer of The Ruins of Cawdor, a graphical MUD). Aronson's account first appeared in print in the APA Alarums and Excursions between 1985 and 1986. It was reprinted in Mensa's RPG APA The Spell Book in 1987, and The Mensa Bulletin in 1988.
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The first role-playing game published, Dungeons & Dragons (1974), did not include a character sheet. The first one ever published was in the Haven Herald fanzine of Stephen Tihor published on May 3, 1975. One month after, another character sheet was released in the APA magazine Alarums and Excursions. Since then, most tabletop role-playing games use a character sheet for information about the player characters.
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Gold became prominent after 1975 as the editor of Alarums and Excursions, a monthly amateur press association to which RPG writers have contributed over the years. It won the Charles S. Roberts Award for Best Amateur Wargame Magazine in 1984, and the Origins Award for Best Amateur Game Periodical in 2000, 2001, and 2002."Dungeons, dragons, and the fantasy role- playing craze: Which side are you on – lawful good or chaotic evil?", The Boston Globe.
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For example, Corridors of Dreams (1972), > Serena (1975), and Alarums and Excursions (1978) use multilingual texts. > Some of her compositions employ as many as eight languages, and the > execution of the text is an integral part of the composition. In Mekeel's > instrumental works, her combination of instruments and voice is unique, and > the sound of words is an important part of her timbral resources. She avoids > reliance on institutional musical organizations like the orchestra, > preferring to choose instruments and groupings of musicians which allow her > to innovate.
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Another sizable group of fanzines arose in role-playing game (RPG) fandom, where fanzines allowed people to publish their ideas and views on specific games and their role-playing campaigns. In 1975, was released the apazine Alarums and Excursions. Role-playing fanzines allowed people to communicate in the 1970s, and 1980s with complete editorial control in the hands of the players, as opposed to the game publishers. These early RPG fanzines were generally typed, sold mostly in an A5 format (in the UK) and were usually illustrated with abysmal or indifferent artwork.
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As of March 2020, she had published 532 issues of Alarums and Excursions and 190 issues of Xenofilkia,Xenofilkia website as well as six volumes of Filker Up!, a filk-song anthology. She published Tom Digby: Along Fantasy Way, a collection of writings by Tom Digby for ConFrancisco, the 1993 Worldcon where Digby was an Honored Guest, and has published writings by other prominent fan writers in the Los Angeles area. She has also published a collection of songs by Dr. Jane Robinson (2012-9-10), another of songs by Cynthia McQuillin (2014-3-8).
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Holmes, John Eric. Alarums and Excursions #13 (Lee Gold, July 1976) Taking his writing more "mainstream," he wrote with David F. Lindsley the textbook Basic Human Neurophysiology (1984), and on his own pastiche speculative fiction novels set in the inner world of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Pellucidar, the fictional future of Philip Francis Nowlan's Buck Rogers, and the fictional past of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian. Holmes's two Pellucidar novels were Mahars of Pellucidar, authorized by the Burroughs estate, and Red Axe of Pellucidar, reportedly blocked by the same authority. Ready for publication in 1980, it only saw print thirteen years later in a private printing.
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