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Saturday, October 16, 2004

30 years of Dungeons and Dragons

Dungeons and Dragons, the father of all role-playing games, turns 30

As a longtime gamer--though I haven't played a formal game in about ten years, as I wrote recently--I still respect the genre.

(Technically, D&D evolved out of an earlier tabletop wargaming game, but D&D was the first where characters, not armies, were the focus, and therefore was the first role-playing game.)

Posted at 08:47 pm by brandonstarr


	shawnazon October 17, 2004 10:40 AM PDT Sweet... I play twice a week... 6 game rotations. We have a group of 11 and are pretty serious hard core nutballs. :D Gary Gygax is God.


	Brandon Starr October 17, 2004 12:57 PM PDT That is hard-core. D&D? AD&D? AD&D 2--or 3? Or a mix of 2 and 3? Or some other game? Me, I never really bothered to buy rule books past AD&D. The 2 rules weren't a real improvement, to my mind. You do know the history of the changes to D&D, right? D&D became AD&D when Gygax got divorced from his wife and she got residuals from everything he worked on while they were married. (This led to the slow death of the D&D rules, as fewer and fewer modules were put out over time under the older rule set.) AD&D became AD&D 2 after Gygax "divorced" from TSR Games. Neither one is a really good reason to update the game, only reasons based out of greed and creative control. This isn't to argue that the newer ones aren't any good, just that they're not a big improvement, so I never bothered with them.


	shawnazon October 19, 2004 05:32 AM PDT We're currently playing version 3.5... we're up to date. :p I started with AD&D 2, but wasn't as serious about it then because I didn't have a group. So now we're 3.5, but we change the stupid rules since we figure we game test more than the writers. :p


	Brandon Starr October 19, 2004 01:03 PM PDT Sounds like it!

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