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Bookmark or Share- dungeons and dragons - Role-playing Games Stack ExchangeThere have been a number of historical articles written about it (the best one in my opinion is Paul La Farge's Destroy All Monsters—but there are lots of others) But I really think the issues were money, who got credit for what, and the fact that these guys were not located in the same area—distance leads to difficulty in communication, and Gygax was trying to run a business as well as be ...
- Is anyone playing Mazes & Minotaurs? [closed] - Role-playing Games ...Just for reference, tho, Dave Arneson notes that the first RPG wasn't D&D, but the Braunstein games, where he went off-board in a minis-game invasion-of-a-banana-republic... back in 1968. He was just a player, but the referee allowed him to do off-map stuff, and he and Gary Gygax then expanded out from there.
- When was the first instance of "If you don't like the rules, change ...In the past, we determined that The GM is Always Right is stemming from the early heydays of Dungeons and Dragons and its origin in games like Chainmail, though the Braunstein games might also be a way it came to be. In either way, many of the more modern editions of games have lines that account to "If you don't like the rule, change them". As ...
- monsters - What is the origin of the Beholder? - Role-playing Games ...Terry Kuntz invented the Beholder from scratch. There is no individual literary source or precedent. "Terry" (Theron O.) Kuntz was the younger brother of Rob Kuntz and one of the players in the original playtest campaign in Castle Greyhawk.
- Were there ever rule publications for one of the Braunstein Games?There also is a wonderful blog post and youtube video by Jon Peterson (the author of Playing at the World) that shows a few of the original handwritten order cards and writeups for the various players for some of these early Braunstein sessions. Due to the reference to "French Forces", this is undoubtedly an artifact from the Braunstein 1 game.
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