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Dungeons and Dragons Co-Creator Interviewed
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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you give real geeks a bad name.
THEY give geeks a bad name? They're not the contrived, egotistic, homophobe douchebags you seem to be. Why do you bother posting negative stuff when all it accomplished is making you look retarded?
Soooo. what do you do when your GF plays along with you in a campaign?
We play a monthly campaign with a few (7) friends. Even my GF has got worked up into it more than I have sometimes. And even though it's RP, you're with friends. That's the real reason it's fun.
That's why single player Diablo 2, NWN, and any other RPG is really not fun.
And as a last not, taking RP too far is quite scary. Hell, taking anything too far is scary to deal with. Though, RP is a great way to get with friends for a fun game.
And yes, I know you're a troll.
I wonder what his character stats are like?
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I graduated from Full Sail, and have met Mr. Arneson in passing and he's a nice fellow. My former room-mates are both associate course directors in the same program he's a course director in, though they teach different classes, and it's my understanding that he gives out autographed copies of a D&D starter kit to his students.
In fact, my former supervisor's cubicle is right across from his!
(I can already hear the paparazzi!)
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Mr. Arneson doesn't receive the kind of recognition Gary Gygax does, because he doesn't have an equally wacky name. Being named something like "Gygax" or "Ransom Love" really helps you in becoming famous!
I'm sure I'm not the only one who used the *D&D framework as their training ground for programming languages and architectures. I know I've build character toolkits, etc, in Pascal, C, C++, VB, Java, and a few other oddball platforms (like the pocket PC and my HP 48). It has been years since I actually played, but modeling some of the game mechanics, learning how to have multiple people working on a project, discovering how stupid/ungrateful/correct users can actually be all started from personal projects based on the game. If for nothing else, it was nice to have such a tangible target - even if it was just to play a game.
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Videogames? Um, no. Dumbass.
You are wrong, plain and simple. Among the most popular of the first videogames to hit the market were based off of D&D. To this day we still see analogs of the D20 system fostered by Gygax and Arneson, such games still happen to be a staple of the industry.
And BTW, editors, D&D spawned 3 industries. The first CCG to go mainstream (M:tG) was heavily influenced by D&D itself (spoke the creator).
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and not resort to diverting my sexual urges into a game where i pretend to be a wizard.
You are completely wrong. I play a cleric.
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So, he's like the Woz of DnD?
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