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The story of how a bunch of dice-rolling geeks shaped everything we love about videogames

Videogames and tabletop gaming are indisputably intertwined. The classic pen-and-paper games’ idea that certain characteristics can be represented by numbers is at the beating heart of everything from the most classic fantasy RPG, to sports and racing sims. Without those dice-lobbing classics like Warhammer and D&D, this hobby of ours would never have existed. Whether it’s your wizard’s intelligence determining how much damage her spells do, or Lionel Messi’s shot accuracy enabling him to take a long-range stab at goal, the principles (and heritage) of tabletop gaming are always present. “WITHOUT THOSE DICE-LOBBING CLASSICS LIKE WARHAMMER AND D&D, THIS HOBBY OF OURS WOULD NEVER HAVE EXISTED” To tell this story, we have to go back to the early ’70s, when a couple of guys named Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson were beginning to…

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Gamesmaster (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2018

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