How D&D Shaped the Modern Videogame

PC Gamer UK, via the CVG site, has a feature up on the influence Dungeons and Dragons had on the development of videogaming. The role D&D has had in inspiring gamers is fairly well known; Masters of Doom chronicles the inspiration the Johns' campaign had on the creation of Doom and Quake. The article discusses more recent confluences of the tabletop game and videogame development, such as Obsidian's use of pen-and-paper to develop the early areas of Neverwinter Nights 2. Ideas for the late, lamented, Fallout 3 were sparked by a number of tabletop roleplaying moments from developer campaigns.

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D&D Was great back in the day...not so much no

[Drakin020]

It's a shame DDO fumbled...

I remember playing the old D&D game back in the day with paper....Now a days we have computer so we don't have to ruin our paper by erasing so damn much. It was so much fun we would make up our guys, have our DM create the world as we knew it and we just had a blast not knowing what was ahead of us.

Now I have to say....I don't like these new....fangldydangldy rules. Before it was a simple game now theres like 75 books you have to buy if you want to understand the rules. It has become so involved that it just really isn't as fun as it used to be. However we still can use our imagination and go with it.