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Chronology Backward
The chronology for Boot Hill and Empire of the Petal Throne is backward. (This is in reference to: "Boot Hill was TSR's third role-playing game, appearing not long after Dungeons & Dragons and Empire of the Petal Throne", which appears at two places in the article.)

Boot Hill is listed as coming soon in Strategic Review #2 (Summer 1975) and available for sale by Strategic Review #3 (Autumn 1975), while EPT is first mentioned in SR #3, with intended release of mid-July 1975 and available for sale in Strategic Review #4 (Winter 1975). Locking that down, Boot Hill's Foreword is dated May 1st, EPT's Intro is dated July 1st. Yes, that means the old TSR chronology at WotC was inaccurate (and I generally would not consider it a trustworthy source).

I suspect that the reason for the incorrect chronology is that EPT is often called TSR's second RPG (after D&D). But, that's because Boot Hill first edition was mainly a man-to-man war game, with the roleplaying elements only appearing in its 1979 second edition, not because of the chronology. (The main arguments for Boot Hill being an RPG anyway? The individual scale and the optional campaign rules, which can extend play over "several years". I personally count Boot Hill as the second RPG at TSR, but that's a minority view.)

ShannonA (talk) 06:17, 12 April 2021 (UTC)