Trivia from that PDF (note that "The Twain" means Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser):
Something that was produced though was the game of
Lankhmar, originally released by TSR in 1976 and usheringin a long-time partnership between Leiber and the “GameWizards.” The game of Lankhmar was based on a wargameof sorts created by Leiber and Fischer and played during theyears of the Great Depression. The original board, a massivepiece of cardboard that showed the terrain and geography ofNehwon, was long lost along with the rules the two wrote.When Gygax learned of this game, he expressed a desire toreproduce it, leaving Leiber and Fischer with the chore of reconstructing the game from memory. These rewritten rules,penned in longhand, can be found in the Papers Collection.
As part of the development of the game, Gygax sent Leiber
and Fischer a number of illustrations done by David C.
Sutherland, III, each depicting his take on the characters
in the game. Fischer sent these back to TSR with a number
of corrections, pointing out where Sutherland had veered
away from Fischer’s own personal interpretations of the
characters and cultures of Nehwon. Sadly, these corrections
arrived too late for them to be implemented. The annotated
illustrations are preserved in the Collection, granting an interesting insight into how the Twain’s co-creator envisioned
the duo and the world they inhabited.


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