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Reddit mentions of Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who Play It
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It's an excerpt from this book, Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who Play It.
Being too young to have experienced this first-hand, but just young enough to feel the effects of it on my life (my mother, who lived through the 80's, banned me from playing D&D because of this sentiment), Of Dice and Men helped me understand why that all came about.
Tl;dr of which: someone didn't like D&D and lied profusely about it in an era before fact-checking was so easy.
PS The book is great for other things, like understanding the origins of the game.
These are both good reads for nerds and novices:
There's a new book that was released just recently [Empire of Imagination] (http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Imagination-Gygax-Dungeons-Dragons/dp/1632862794/ref=pd_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=515zTJXi6UL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR105%2C160_&refRID=1GDE6308Y0NQDQ0E5NQD) but it has some mixed reviews. Quite a few old school gamers have said it's lackluster in style and substance.
> White Wolf did more to bring people to gaming as a hobby in 5 yrs than TSR did in triple that time, in terms of effort, and we can probably attribute some non-trivial fraction of how diverse the gaming community is to their efforts.
I agree with this, though I must say that TSR was child of a "nerds only" era, when marketing was not an issue, as there were two or three major fanzines where you found advertisement, and most publicity was done by hearsay.
It is to their fault that the failed to adapt to changing times, that's for sure (I would advise anyone interested in their history to read Of Dice and Men, an amazing book), but I can understand why someone "younger" did a better attempt at it...
List of Influential RPG Titles
Dungeons and Dragons - By TSR and WotC
Dungeons and Dragons 1st Edition - TSR
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition - TSR
Dungeons and Dragons 3.0 - WotC
Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 - WotC
Dungeons and Dragons 4e - WotC
Pathfinder - Paizo Publishing
Not Dungeons and Dragons
World of Darkness - by White Wolf
"New" World of Darkness
AEG
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RPG Related Non-Fiction
RPG Fiction, also essential
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*Please add suggestions below, I'll add to the list as I revisit this thread throughout the day. Adding Amazon links now.
Actually, Of Dice and Men is a real book, and I can personally highly reccomend it.
Of Dice and Men is a probably my go-to history of the game.
That is right (at least according to Matt Colville who seems to have a decent grasp on the history of D&D).
I've been meaning to read Of Dice and Men but haven't gotten around to it yet. The NewBooksNetwork interview with the author is really good though.
It's brought up in Of Dice and Men by David M. Ewalt.
I haven't read it myself, but this book is well-reviewed.
For out of game history from those days, I rather enjoyed Of Dice and Men. As someone who got on at the end of AD&D, it gave me some interesting context for the early days of the game.
Read this book, imho http://www.amazon.com/dp/1451640501
This is a great starting point: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1451640501