Dungeons & Deceptions: The First D&D Players Push Back On The Legend Of Gary Gygax

Dungeons & Deceptions: The First D&D Players Push Back On The Legend Of Gary Gygax

The man who invented roleplaying. “Arneson had designed a way to organize the imagination and foster communal storytelling; Gygax had designed a way to ground it in wargaming traditions, package and sell that. Today, the Chainmail-inspired rules Gygax mixed in with D&D’s prototype are quite altered, while Arneson’s initial role-playing conceit, and the variability of rulesets encouraged by his Minnesota friends, is what defines the genre.”