Players pretend to be fantasy characters who are guided through adventures and scenarios by a dungeon master.īy the early 1980’s, thanks to some insane and talented coders, I was playing a crude version of it with mates on our university’s computer system: the Digital Equipment Manufacturer (DEC) VAX 11/780, a 32-bit “minicomputer” that was far more attractive to learn on than the more common but huge IBM mainframes with their clunking batch-processing oriented architecture. The science-fiction fantasy game was created in 1974 by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. Well shit! What hasn’t been going woke recently? From the article a bit of background for non D&D’rs. This will not be news for people who play Dungeons and Dragons, the now almost fifty year old, role-playing game beloved by generations of nerds.
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