In a fit of perversity, I'm cobbling together a hexcrawl homage to run sometime this year. The basic idea is to use various D&D modules/adventures produced before 1980, strung together with a blank hex map. The characters get a starting hex and a largely blank map with a few names and features on it. where they go and what they do is up to them, but every now and then they'll run into a 'dungeon' (if that's what the random rolls say).

The homage bit will be those names on the map. I'm going to tie the dungeons to the map by publisher and the names on the map will give some idea to the regions. Lands of the Ivory Dwarf (the Living Stone lands) for anything in White Dwarf, for example.

I'd like to tap into the collective wisdom of the RPGsite to make sure I have missed any obvious publisher.

So far, I have:
-TSR.
-Little Wars/Dragon. (yes, they're the same publisher, but they get two lands for interests sake)
-Judges Guild.
-Arduin
-Gamemasters/Thieves Guild stuff.

That about taps out my early years library. Might include a small Chaosium island for Thieves World once I check publishing dates.

My question is, who have I missed?

Metagaming - The Fantasy Trip
Flying Buffalo/Ken St. Andre - Tunnels and Trolls
Fantasy Games Unlimited/Ed Simbalist, Wilf Backhaus - Chivalry and Sorcery
GDW/Marc Miller - Traveller
Bard Games - The Lexicon, Atlas of the Lost World of Atlantis -- Strike this... it's from 1985.

In addition to D&D These were all RPG games I either ran, for some reason thought I played, or played before 1980.

Quote from: GameDaddy;725984Metagaming - The Fantasy Trip
Flying Buffalo/Ken St. Andre - Tunnels and Trolls
Fantasy Games Unlimited/Ed Simbalist, Wilf Backhaus - Chivalry and Sorcery
GDW/Marc Miller - Traveller
Bard Games - The Lexicon, Atlas of the Lost World of Atlantis -- Strike this... it's from 1985.

In addition to D&D These were all RPG games I either ran, for some reason thought I played, or played before 1980.

I'm not sure if the OP is aware, but I have an RPG encyclopedia indexed by year.

http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/encyclopedia/

Others include:

Avant-Garde Simulations Perspectives - Age of Chivalry, Simian Combat
Better Games - Crimson Cutlass
Gamescience - Star Patrol, Superhero 2044
Heritage Models - John Carter, Warlord of Mars, Star Trek
Skytrex Ltd. - Bifrost

Quote from: jhkim;726002I'm not sure if the OP is aware, but I have an RPG encyclopedia indexed by year.

http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/encyclopedia/

Good list, but, you don't include H.G. Well's Little Wars?

//Panjumanju

Just looking for D&D modules/D&D related publishers?

Looking through Shannon Applecline's thing on RPG history here http://www.evilhat.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/DD70s_PreRelease_TSR.pdf I found mention of a 'Wee Warriors' who produced supplements for a fairly brief period (edit: around pdf page 36, numbered 26 at top)

Quote from: RoadScholar;725983Gamemasters/Thieves Guild stuff.

That's "Gamelords," actually.

Quote from: Panjumanju;726009Good list, but, you don't include H.G. Well's Little Wars?

//Panjumanju

That is a wargame, not an RPG?

Gamelords, while I am a huge fan, is really post-seventies I think.

Arduin, Judges Guild, Wee Warriors, Little Soldier, Empire of the Petal Throne are some of the big ones.

The quality is variable but the Dragon Tree stuff is from the seventies originally I think. Spell Caster's Bible.

Those guys from Cal Tech with their Warlock system.

If you are doing lands you could consider gates to Tekumel (like Ray Feist's DM had) and maybe some weird mana based lands as with the Dragon Tree stuff as well as what you already mentioned. In terms of setting stuff JG is the 800 pound gorilla here, probably followed by Arduin.

Also Glorantha. I actually think high level OD&D might work better for heroquest-level Glorantha than RQ did although I acknowledge that is damnable heresy. But there's be nothing stopping you from pasting that into a pastiche, it is vintage for sure.

Quote from: Calithena;726113Those guys from Cal Tech with their Warlock system.

Ahh yes. have this too. And played it before 1980, purchased and Dmed by a friend of mine back then... We liked the spell point rules, the custom spells, and the crits and fumbles tables for this.

Was looking at putting a game together for this last year, but it never got any traction in the schedule.