Looking Back At Dungeons & Dragons

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @08:28PM from the lightning-bolt dept.

An anonymous reader sends in a nostalgic piece about Dungeons & Dragons and the influence it's had on games and gamers for the past 36 years. Quoting: "Maybe there was something in the air during the early '70s. Maybe it was historically inevitable. But it seems way more than convenient coincidence that Gygax and Arneson got their first packet of rules for D&D out the door in 1974, the same year Nolan Bushnell managed to cobble together a little arcade machine called Pong. We've never had fun quite the same way since. Looking back, these two events set today's world of gaming into motion — the Romulus and Remus of modern game civilization. For the rest of forever, we would sit around and argue whether games should let us do more or tell us better stories."

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Well, Pong is earlier then 1974 by sznupi · 2010-01-19 20:34 · Score: 3, Informative

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong
1972, it seems.

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Re:But unfortunately... by LordLucless · 2010-01-20 00:31 · Score: 2, Informative

4E, clerics can be devoted to a deity, or a concept or philosophy

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BasicFantasy.net by JasonTheBold · 2010-01-20 08:59 · Score: 2, Informative

It's like 2nd edition without THAC0! http://www.basicfantasy.org/