While the BBC’s article on the 30th Anniversary of D&D is the expected blend of wonderment (“Wonder why so many people used to play? Wonder why people still do?”), it’s still a pretty remarkable milestone.
It’s all the more remarkable that the vast majority of my friends (including my wife) were met in the course of D&D games (of various sorts and brands). And that it’s still such a major component of our social calendar.
And … that I’ve been playing it for such a large percentage of my lifespan, too. I wasn’t in there in 1974, but by ’79, yeah.
Wow. Thirty years. Not bad for something so geeky.
(via Doyce)
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Very nice article. Not at all accusatory or inflammatory. Nary a mention of the perception that we’re all a bunch of psychotic Satanists. Maybe we can finally put that misconception behind us.
Oh, and I still have the books in the picture, although they never got used. I immediately ran out and bought the spiffy new AD&D hardbacks, and those are what we used for the next five years.
Can’t believe I haven’t had anybody to play D&D with for over two decades. >sob
Those were the first books I played with (or maybe just one or two of them). Amusement ensued when we had monster stats without descriptions, which led to interesting interpretations of what “Ear Seekers” were like …
I weirds me out somewhat that I am as old as D&D, or that D&D is as old as me.
I saw the movie Mazes and Monsters on the satellite dish. What an awful movie. (The Jack Chick comics were better written!) Between that and the World Trade Center setting just freaked me out.
Ah, yes … who could forget good old Jack and his particular take on D&D?
I’ve managed to miss Mazes & Monsters over the years. One of these days, though …