Happy (Belated) 30th Anniversary, Dungeons & Dragons!

Galuf the Dwarf · Post by **Galuf the Dwarf** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:38 am

Yes, this did happen recently, according to this article.

Note to moderators: Feel free to move this where you wish. I was just hoping to get this heard.

smass · Post by **smass** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:42 am

When I was between the ages of 10 and 16 - I spent my summers doing two things: Playing sports and playing D&D. Neighboorhood games of wiffleball, football, wiffle hockey, basketball, etc. would fill up my sunny afternoons. The rainy days were reserved for D&D. What a great social game. A spark for the imagination and a great teacher of storytelling, history, and even vocabulary.

Heck - 95% of us are on this site because of Baldurs Gate II. D&D has changed greatly over the past 30 years. Getting a group of friends together for a pen and paper session is next to impossible for me. But I still play a good deal of single player CRPGs and get my pen and paper fix playing NWNs on Argyle Online.

Happy Birthday D&D! Where would I be without you? I'd probably have a much less interesting life - maybe I would collect stamps or dried insects or something....I shutter to think...

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:01 am

And many more years, I enjoy it greatly.

RandomThug · Post by **RandomThug** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:16 am

I forget the creators names but I wanna thank ed greedwood for forgotten realms.

Luis Antonio · Post by **Luis Antonio** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:12 am

God bless D&D, the best thing man has ever made since Tequila...

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:31 am

@RT,

gary gygax

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 7:15 am

I was browsing the net and came across the little bit of information and just had to pop into SYM.

Never played D&D, sounded like fun but could never find any of the manuals or any of the funky dices.

Galuf the Dwarf · Post by **Galuf the Dwarf** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 9:16 am

Originally posted by Ned Flanders
@RT,

gary gygax

Isn't he just "CO-CREATOR?" I remember that the article mentions that he devised D&D with the help of someone else.

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 12:27 am

Woohoo! Happy B-Day D&D!

THAC0 · Post by **THAC0** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 9:31 am

I still have that little yellow D20 with the numbers colored in with a wax crayon. Though it is more of a marble now from the edges being smoothed.

Gary will always be the father of DnD as the other has faded into the mists of time.

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 6:35 pm

Gary Gygax co-created D&D...but AD&D (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons) was truly his greatest work, and his own. I played the PnP ages ago. Never lost interest in it, just time and opportunities.

It's changed a great deal...but it's still D&D. I like the changes.