a flow chart for early role playing games
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Pretty good. But everyone forgets an early 70's PBM game in Britain called Midgard* that, while not very playable, was almost certainly an influence on the first version of D&D. There were also a few fantasy variants in the game Diplomacy that may well have been influential in those early days. The fact is that the early 70's saw a variety of folks, Including yours truly, attempt to design games around a fantasy context. Gygax and Arneson had the best, and were brave/resourceful enough to get it published, and the rest is history. But they weren't alone...
*There was also a Midgard II PBM in Utah, (which I briefly played in), sometime around 73-74.
Pretty good. But everyone forgets an early 70's PBM game in Britain called Midgard* that, while not very playable, was almost certainly an influence on the first version of D&D. There were also a few fantasy variants in the game Diplomacy that may well have been influential in those early days. The fact is that the early 70's saw a variety of folks, Including yours truly, attempt to design games around a fantasy context. Gygax and Arneson had the best, and were brave/resourceful enough to get it published, and the rest is history. But they weren't alone...
*There was also a Midgard II PBM in Utah, (which I briefly played in), sometime around 73-74.
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