Fortunately, I have known several people who own copies that they've been willing to lend me, so I've at least had the chance to read the book. not multi-hundred dollar) price for several years now but to no avail. I've tried in vain to obtain a copy for myself at a reasonable (i.e. Rather than risk legal action, the book was never reprinted, making it today one of the rarest - and most expensive - TSR products. There was, so far as I know, only one print run of the book before the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate contacted TSR about possible infringement of their rights.
If you've never heard of Warriors of Mars, let alone seen a copy, there's a good reason for that. Written by Gygax and Brian Blume, this small book provides rules for adjudicating battles, both on the land and in the air, between the various antagonistic cultures of Mars, as envisioned by Burroughs. Given this, it should probably come as no surprise that, in the same year that OD&D appeared, TSR released a 56-page miniatures wargame entitled Warriors of Mars. He mentioned his name in both OD&D and in Appendix N of his AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide and the Greyhawk campaign included at least one expedition to the red sands of Barsoom. Gary Gygax, though, was not shy in acknowledging the debt he owed to Burroughs. They are, in many respects, the wellspring from which contemporary fantasy and science fiction flow, even if the debt both genres owe to these seminal books is often unacknowledged.
#Barsoom miniatures movie
Though largely unknown today - to the point where the ignorant have suggested that the movie John Carter is ripping off the innumerable films inspired by Burroughs - the Barsoom novels were hugely influential for decades. It's oft been noted that the LBBs contain more references to the Barsoom novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs than to any other fantasy tales and with good reason.
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