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On the Table: D&D and Video Game Folktales - Robert Lashley at MMORPG.com

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited November 2016 in News & Features Discussion

imageOn the Table: D&D and Video Game Folktales - Robert Lashley at MMORPG.com

Blurb: Earlier this week it was announced that Dungeons and Dragons would be inducted into the video game hall of fame. Read on for Rob’s thoughts and two stories about how D&D may or may not have directly influenced two classic Nintendo games.

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  • ArchlyteArchlyte Member RarePosts: 1,405
    edited November 2016
    A lot of mention of tabletop lately even though there are some that barely acknowledge the closest ancestor to MMORPGs as they should have been. What's going on with this?
    Post edited by Archlyte on
    MMORPG players are often like Hobbits: They don't like Adventures
  • TheodwulfTheodwulf Member UncommonPosts: 311
    edited November 2016
     It was the spring of '89, when my D+D group, who went to a fancy private High school, had a different april vacation than me, who went to public school. Spending my vacation reading up on rules and how best to abuse them, as playing was not possible. THEN it struck me, what if there was some sort of magic box that allowed me to play D+D anytime I wanted ...The MMORPG was invented, history made!...You're welcome:).
  • waynejr2waynejr2 Member EpicPosts: 7,771
    edited November 2016
    Wow, I am OG. I have my name in a few TSR products as well. :D


    Also, for those interested in the early days:



    http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2010/QBlog190810A.html  

    Epic Music:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAigCvelkhQ&list=PLo9FRw1AkDuQLEz7Gvvaz3ideB2NpFtT1

    https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos?&sort=-downloads&page=1

    Kyleran:  "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."

    John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."

    FreddyNoNose:  "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."

    LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"




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