40 years later, 'Dungeons & Dragons' still inspiring gamers

  • 20 May 2014
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Four decades before anyone took an arrow to the knee in "Skyrim," adventurers were sitting down with paper and pencil to battle fantasy monsters and explore rich, new worlds in a different kind of role-playing game.

"Dungeons & Dragons," commonly known simply as D&D, burst onto the scene in 1974, long before the word "gaming" came with the implied word "video" in front of it.  Read more...

Wow, "tempus fugit"...
 
- Jeff

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I still remember my red original D&D box. Wish I still had it 🙂
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It's hard to believe that D&D is already 40 :S 
But how nice it is to reminisce about childhood, in which D&D was present for so many years...
Thanks Jeff!:D
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@ wrote:
I still remember my red original D&D box. Wish I still had it :)
Somewhere I do still have the red paperback Beginners Dungeon Guide that came in that original red box.  Well worn, but still have it and several of the old hard-cover expansion guides as well

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