Despite having one of the best company logos of the period, most of the FGU games I’ve seen are firmly in the charmingly DIY level of production values. Like these Castle Plans (1977).

Ostensibly for Chivalry & Sorcery (a game created because D&D was too “unrealistic”), they are actually pretty generic playmats of various castle layouts. They’re huge, 24×36. The illustrations are clean and consistent, really just shy of pro. They’re printed on sort of a soft manila paper stock that is sturdy, but also machine folded, so they are super brittle at the edges (or, at least, my copy is). It just feels like a late-70s game product in some undefinable way. I love it, even though it isn’t something I’d use for my own games.  

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