published a second edition of the game later that year, the name was changed to Superhero 2044. When Lou Zocchi’s company Gamescience Inc. Saxman’s game was self-published in a small print run in 1977 under the name Superhero ’44. Steve Perrin in Different Worlds #23 – an issue dedicated to the rise of superhero role playing games – asserts that Superhero 2044 by Donald Saxman is the first commercially available superhero-themed role playing game. T&T was a product that would revolutionize the role playing game industry in its own way, but that is a story for another time. Tunnels & Trolls may have shared some features with D&D, but mechanically and tonally it was clearly a different product. Of these three games, only one was in the same genre as D&D and it was written as a response to the nigh-unplayability of the original D&D rules. D&D was published in 1974 the next year saw the publication of Boot Hill, a Western role playing game published by TSR En Garde!, a game of swashbuckling Three Musketeers-esque action published by GDW and Tunnels & Trolls by Flying Buffalo. The early entries into the role playing game marketplace, both by TSR and others, covered a wide variety of genres. Those things would happen, but the truly derivative products took some time to reach the market. This isn’t to say that no one was releasing competing fantasy role playing games into the market, or that no games would be released using mechanics clearly based on D&D‘s combat system.
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