Good grief - I thought my husband and his mates were the only D&D geeks still out there! Once a week, every week, shut in a spare bedroom - I think it's where they'll finally shuffle off this mortal coil (having first slain several dwarfs, clerics and wizards on the way). This will cause me to now find my lost friends and start the adventures rolling once again. It must have been 10 years since we last met up to to go on an adventure. Just reading these comments have brought all the memories flooding back. Occasionally they tell the other players the legends of the Fighting Lady Red and Euell the Druid, characters who lived in our imagination when we were young. All his new D&D characters are the children of the characters we played when we were younger. Now a former roommate is playing D&D on the other side of the country with some people who are the same age we were then. Twenty years ago my college roommates played D&D every weekend. Surely one of the best games ever invented. I wish I still had my spell-book and magic dagger. Just so many good memories that came about because of D&D.ĭungeons & Dragons shall live forever. Our Dungeon Master would have weeks of events and quests lined out just in case we kept going into the mid-morning. When we were younger we would play until 5 in the morning and still did not want to stop. Man, we played this for a good decade now. Read a selection of your comments on the 30th birthday of D&D. In the age of the iPod, mp3s, DVDs and online videogames, it is perhaps remarkable that a game based purely on pen, paper and dice remains so popular. "But of course there are no million dollar special effects - so imagination must fill in the blanks." "People often say playing D&D is like writing your own movie at a table. There is a great fellowship among role players."Įd Stark, special projects manager at Wizards, says imagination is pivotal to the game. "I am certainly happy that it has made people happy and brought so many people together. Gygax says: "There is something in D&D that strikes a chord in many people the call of adventure. Gygax and Arneson are still actively involved in the industry and are revered by D&D players for their creation. "The game is social, it is a form of storytelling, and it has allowed me to develop deep friendships with people over the years."ĭelwin Shand, a 47-year-old who has been playing for 30 years, says: "The reason the game has survived is that it allows us the chance to play out a dream of being the classical hero - the slayer of dragons, the hero who saves the land from some terrible foe or danger." Wizards estimates that three million people play in the US each month.Īngus MacDonald, a 45-year-old D&D player, who lives near San Francisco, has been playing on and off since 1975. There's no stabbing each other in the back."ĭave Arneson is still involved in the games industryīut the game remains - even thrives. Neither man has any current official involvement in D&D - both selling their royalties to publisher Wizards of the Coast in the 1990s.Īrneson says: "We see each other at conventions. In the late 1970s and 1980s, lawsuits began to fly - Arneson and Gygax sued each other over the development of the game. A later cartoon series and a more recent film kept the brand name alive among non-players but were derided by D&D fans. The controversy inspired a 1982 TV film, Mazes and Monsters, starring Tom Hanks. Some schools banned the game, and many parents refused to let their children play. The game was wrongly implicated in a missing persons case, a teen suicide and a number of murders. It's about sitting down and telling stories with your friends."Īt the height of its popularity in the 1980s the game became a target for cultural conservatives. If you play board games there is always an objective or goal. "It was the first really interactive game. D&D rules grew out of war gaming in the early 1970s
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