Game Hysteria and the Truth by Michael A. Stackpole
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Hysteria and the Truth by Michael A. Stackpole
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"Dungeons and Dragons" in 1974 did something no other game had
ever done: it imposed rules on what had been heretofore the
exercise of the imagination. It became the first ever Role
Playing Game and, while many others have followed and the rules
have been revised several different times, it continues to be
the best well known and most widely distributed game of that
type. Role Playing Games (RPGs)have been translated in a host of
different languages and are as popular in Europe and Japan as
they are in the United States. Dungeons and Dragons codified and
dressed up with dice and pictures the imaginary games we all had
played as children = Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians and
Tea Party. It made available to adolescents and adults a vehicle
to exercise their imaginations in a very acti