Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons that had just been published by TSR the previous year.
Little Soldier quickly received a cease and desist letter from United Artists, at the time the owner of the American rights to LotR.
[1] Konstant and Perez then switched to Arthurian legend, publishing the role-playing game Knights of the Round Table in 1976.
Phil Edgren, who owned a bookstore around the corner from The Little Soldier and who had some knowledge of mythical creatures, wrote the text of the book.
[1] Gamescience paid for the printing costs of both products in exchange for the rights to the entire Little Soldier Games back-catalogue,[3]: 294 and quickly republished condensed versions of all six books under their banner.