Dungeons & Dragons Anniversary Gets Further Celebration

Thanks to GameSpy for its series of articles helping commemorate the 30th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons. Continuing previous articles about the occasion, the week-long feature includes a look back at SSI's Gold Box series (" the first series of games to truly bring the D&D experience to video gamers"), The Daily Show's Stephen Colbert discussing his D&D schooldays ("We were all complete outcasts in school -- beyond the fringe, beyond nerds"), and a feature on Planescape: Torment ("One of the greatest, and certainly the weirdest, RPGs ever made.")

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Overhyped

[mwheeler01]

The D&D 30th anniversary is just an overhyped way for WoTC to sell more books. IMHO the only real merit of D&D is that it set the ball rolling and brings RPG to the masses. There are a lot of better systems out there in terms of playbility or realism or flexability, plain and simple. If 'it works and it's what everyone else plays' were a good enough reason, Linux would never have made it past Linus's HD.