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Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by [[Gary Gygax]] and [[Dave Arneson]], and first published in 1974.
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'''Dungeons & Dragons''' ('''D&D''') is a [[fantasy]] tabletop role-playing [[game]] originally designed by [[Gary Gygax]] and [[Dave Arneson]], and first published in 1974.
  
The game has been published by [[Wizards of the Coast]] (now a subsidiary of Hasbro) since 1997. It was derived from miniature war games with a variation of the Chainmail game serving as the initial rule system.
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The game has been published by [[Wizards of the Coast]] (now a subsidiary of Hasbro) since 1997. It was derived from miniature [[wargames]] with a variation of the Chainmail game serving as the initial rule system.
  
It's publication is commonly recognized as the beginning of modern role-playing games and the role-playing game industry.
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Its publication is commonly recognized as the beginning of modern role-playing games and the role-playing game industry.
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It had a large effect on [[fantasy]], simultaneously adding huge numbers of new readers but also tuning that audience toward dreary potboiler quest fantasies turned out by the hundreds by publisher like [[TSR]].
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Nevertheless, a lot of [[fans]] played, and it drew quite a few people into [[fandom]].
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The [https://boingboing.net/2014/11/11/the-truth-about-the-dungeon-ma.html 1979 disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III], supposedly in a [[LARP]] version of the game in the University of Michigan steam tunnels, made D&D notorious. 
  
It has had a large effect on [[fantasy]], simultaneously adding huge numbers of new readers but also by tuning that audience towards dreary potboiler quest fantasies turned out by the hundreds by publisher like [[TSR]].
 
  
 
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Revision as of 01:08, 19 October 2020

Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974.

The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast (now a subsidiary of Hasbro) since 1997. It was derived from miniature wargames with a variation of the Chainmail game serving as the initial rule system.

Its publication is commonly recognized as the beginning of modern role-playing games and the role-playing game industry.

It had a large effect on fantasy, simultaneously adding huge numbers of new readers but also tuning that audience toward dreary potboiler quest fantasies turned out by the hundreds by publisher like TSR.

Nevertheless, a lot of fans played, and it drew quite a few people into fandom.

The 1979 disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III, supposedly in a LARP version of the game in the University of Michigan steam tunnels, made D&D notorious.



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