Dungeons and Dragons Co-Creator Interviewed

Posted by simoniker on Sunday October 5, 2003 @04:12PM from the venger-versus-tiamat dept.

spongebob writes "The great Dave Arneson was interviewed on his current work and upcoming releases at EnWorld. Arneson is one of the most important figures in gaming, because he was co-author of Dungeons & Dragons, that little game who spawned an entire industry (or two, if we count videogames). Despite this, he doesn't enjoy the immense recognition given to Gary Gygax, the other author of Dungeons & Dragons. This is perhaps explainable with the fact that Gary Gygax had a long and high profile career as game designer and manager of TSR Hobbies (then TSR) for many years and for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons' creation. Anyway, Dave remains a sort of 'unsung legend' of the gaming world."

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a letter to pseudo-nerds (i.e. d&d players) by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-05 16:29 · Score: -1, Troll

hey loser faggots,
being a "nerd" or "geek" does not have to involve rolling 13-sided die instead of having sex with women. i am a technology-guru and yet am still able to have normal sexual relations with women and not resort to diverting my sexual urges into a game where i pretend to be a wizard. dungeons and dragons is faggotry, all the way and you would be wise to take no part in it. you give real geeks a bad name.

yours truly,
simon, persecutor of homos