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The SECOND oldest roleplaying game
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kyonshi
Jan 19, 2024, 11:58:10 AMJan 19
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We were joking around on Mastodon about posting slightly wrong
information to get people to interact, when I remembered this particular
gem from Peterson's site: Rules for the Game of DUNGEON (1974) is likely
the second roleplaying game ever published, and the author did so
without knowing of the existence of Dungeons and Dragons.
It was likely not someone coming up with the idea independently though,
a local gamer had played with Dave Arneson's group before and brought
the concept to Minneapolis. The author of DUNGEON Craig VanGrasstek
collected the variants into a ruleset and published them to share with
the wider world. But of course the existence of DnD brought all that to
an end.
I wonder if other variants were around at the time as well.
http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2012/08/rules-to-game-of-dungeon-1974.html
and here is a copy of the rules as pdf
http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2014/08/1974-dungeon-variant-now-for-download.html
Does anyone have some more information about that old Minneapolis scene?
information to get people to interact, when I remembered this particular
gem from Peterson's site: Rules for the Game of DUNGEON (1974) is likely
the second roleplaying game ever published, and the author did so
without knowing of the existence of Dungeons and Dragons.
It was likely not someone coming up with the idea independently though,
a local gamer had played with Dave Arneson's group before and brought
the concept to Minneapolis. The author of DUNGEON Craig VanGrasstek
collected the variants into a ruleset and published them to share with
the wider world. But of course the existence of DnD brought all that to
an end.
I wonder if other variants were around at the time as well.
http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2012/08/rules-to-game-of-dungeon-1974.html
and here is a copy of the rules as pdf
http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2014/08/1974-dungeon-variant-now-for-download.html
Does anyone have some more information about that old Minneapolis scene?
kyonshi
Jan 19, 2024, 1:29:15 PMJan 19
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On 1/19/2024 5:58 PM, kyonshi wrote:
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> and here is a copy of the rules as pdf
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> http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2014/08/1974-dungeon-variant-now-for-download.html
Of course only after posting it I realized that the link to the pdf in
>
> and here is a copy of the rules as pdf
>
> http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2014/08/1974-dungeon-variant-now-for-download.html
the article doesn't work. Thank the Gods that Wayback Machine exists:
https://web.archive.org/web/20191222015731/http://www.unreason.com/files/RulesToTheGameOfDungeon.pdf
Ubiquitous
Feb 6, 2024, 8:28:53 AMFeb 6
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gmk...@gmail.com wrote:
>We were joking around on Mastodon about posting slightly wrong
>information to get people to interact, when I remembered this particular
>gem from Peterson's site: Rules for the Game of DUNGEON (1974) is likely
>the second roleplaying game ever published, and the author did so
>without knowing of the existence of Dungeons and Dragons.
Was FANTASY ROLE PLAYING before or after D&D?
>We were joking around on Mastodon about posting slightly wrong
>information to get people to interact, when I remembered this particular
>gem from Peterson's site: Rules for the Game of DUNGEON (1974) is likely
>the second roleplaying game ever published, and the author did so
>without knowing of the existence of Dungeons and Dragons.
--
Let's go Brandon!
Justisaur
Feb 6, 2024, 11:20:01 AMFeb 6
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self published) in 1974 as well. Closest I've been able to find for a
time in the year is "spring" so probably predates DUNGEON.
That first print is available in PDF
https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/99646/empire-of-the-petal-throne-original-manuscript
The author is from England though, not Minneapolis as far as I can tell.
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