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Dungeons & Dragons
- Dungeons & DragonsDungeons & Dragons was born partly from a two-year-old girl's enthusiasm. When Gary Gygax presented his daughter Cindy with a list of possible names for the…
- Chainmail (game)Chainmail, the medieval miniature wargame created by Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren, arrived in 1971 with a modest first print run and quickly sold one hundred…
- Game System LicenseThe Game System License arrived on the 17th of June, 2008, with the promise of opening up Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition to the wider world of tabletop…
- D&D BeyondOn the 15th of August 2017, D&D Beyond launched as an official digital toolset for Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition. Adam Bradford served as the project lead…
- Dungeon MasterThe Dungeon Master sits at the center of every Dungeons and Dragons game, controlling nearly everything that happens except the choices of the players…
- Dungeons & Dragons controversiesIn 1979, a sixteen-year-old named James Dallas Egbert III vanished from the steam tunnels beneath Michigan State University.
- Magic in Dungeons & DragonsIn 1974, the 36-page Volume 1: Men & Magic pamphlet appeared as part of the original Dungeons & Dragons boxed set. Twelve pages within that slim booklet…
- TSR, Inc.In October 1973, Gary Gygax and Don Kaye pooled $2,400 to form Tactical Studies Rules. Their goal was simple yet unprecedented: self-publish a new game…
- Wizards of the CoastWizards of the Coast began in Peter Adkison's basement outside Seattle in 1990, with a handful of employees and a name borrowed from a guild of wizards in a…
- Editions of Dungeons & DragonsDungeons and Dragons arrived in 1974 as a box set assembled on a production budget of just $2,000, with only $100 set aside for artwork.
- Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons)Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, introduced the alignment system in 1974. The original game allowed players to choose among three alignments…
- BattlesystemBattlesystem arrived in 1985 as something the world of tabletop gaming had rarely seen: a bridge between the intimate storytelling of Dungeons and Dragons…