"40 years later, 'Dungeons & Dragons' still inspiring gamers" Topic
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| Tango01 | 22 May 2014 10:32 p.m. PST |
"Four decades before anyone took an arrow to the knee in "Skyrim," adventurers were sitting down with paper and pencil to battle fantasy monsters and explore rich, new worlds in a different kind of role-playing game. "Dungeons & Dragons," commonly known simply as D&D, burst onto the scene in 1974, long before the word "gaming" came with the implied word "video" in front of it. In D&D, the brainchild of creators Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, players could become fighters, magic-users, and clerics, and run through adventures created by a "Dungeon Master" or "DM" -- the person responsible for controlling nearly every aspect of the game…"
From here.
link Amicalement
Armand |
| 53Punisher | 23 May 2014 3:08 a.m. PST |
Interesting article, thanks for sharing. |
| Space Monkey | 23 May 2014 3:42 a.m. PST |
More infomercial fluff time to the advent of 5e. |
| James Wright | 23 May 2014 4:22 a.m. PST |
D&D got me playing, but since 4th ed I haven't cracked one of their books. I have been neck deep in Pathfinder, and other games. It got me hooked in 1980…man, feel old now. |
| Winston Smith | 23 May 2014 5:10 a.m. PST |
We played with the 3 books in the white box. We had no pre-programmed scenarios, nosirrebob ! |
| TMPWargamerabbit | 23 May 2014 8:13 a.m. PST |
Yes… The white box with three books, the expansion booklet plus Chainmail. Still have mine and the "soft" dice that came with them plus my "drawn dungeon" in a three ring notebook. Balrog anyone? |
| Tango01 | 23 May 2014 10:37 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend. Amicalement
Armand |
| doug redshirt | 23 May 2014 9:30 p.m. PST |
I started out in D&D, but moved onto Traveller, Runequest and Call of Cthulhu. Loved Traveller, because it was just so basic that people actually had to role play. I could look at the numbers from a planet and come up with an idea for the game in minutes. Helped to have read tons of scifi stories. Ran a 12 part Runequest Viking campaign back when in the military. Everyone would come over the wife would cook and we would have a blast doing our best Nordic accents. Would have made the Swedish Chief from the muppets cry in shame. Then we moved onto playing Call of Cthulhu by candle and gas light. That was a hoot and so much fun. Then I moved on and have not played a role playing game in 25 years. Sometimes I really miss it. Just today I was at the hobby store looking at RPGs and wondering why they left me depressed. |
| Tgunner | 24 May 2014 5:43 a.m. PST |
I still play Basic to this day. The Red Box is still the best!
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