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Happy (Belated) 30th Anniversary, Dungeons & Dragons!
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:38 am
by Galuf the Dwarf
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.
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:42 am
by smass
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...
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:01 am
by Rob-hin
And many more years, I enjoy it greatly.
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:16 am
by RandomThug
I forget the creators names but I wanna thank ed greedwood for forgotten realms.
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:12 am
by Luis Antonio
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:31 am
by Ned Flanders
@RT,
gary gygax
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 7:15 am
by Tamerlane
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.
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 9:16 am
by Galuf the Dwarf
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.
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 12:27 am
by Kayless
Woohoo! Happy B-Day D&D!
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 9:31 am
by THAC0
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.
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 6:35 pm
by Chanak
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.