Taken from "Diepedia"
"Basements & Lizards was
created in 1972 by the twin brothers Ralph and Earl Peedersen. The
brothers were already famous for playing Chess backwards on the
Tonight Show. The genesis for B&L came from US Army survival
guides and pulp fantasy stories. The first edition of the game was
published by Endless Sand Diversions, who up until that time sold
plans on making European style sand tables for military gaming
enthusiasts. (ESD eventually filed chapter 11 when the movie
documentary Square Masters exposed a group of Napoleonic
cross-dressers). By this time B & L was an underground hit.
Copies were in high demand, some estimates claim as many as 9 copies
a day were being sold. B & L was then purchased by Amy Hale,
who owned a Bauxite mining facility in Australia, several pet
pharmaceutical companies and the IP rights to Gilligan’s Island.
Ralph and Earl were directed to create an RPG based on this
franchise, eventually this effort would drive both out of hobby
gaming, forever. Once again, in 1986 B & L was sold to the
Fundimensions Group, then again in 1989 to Simkin Corp. Several
Kid's shows and a toy line were produced in the 90's. B & L is
now undergoing its 12th revision. The 11th
edition spawned many criticisms, especially its use of proprietary
non-Euclidean polyhedrals to drive game play (The Infamous d19
System or TIdS)."
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