History of RPGs

Devlog

• Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
  September 05, 2025 by Anna Anthropy

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  This one's a kind of bonus. After we played AD&D, I really wanted to do a session of Wizardry with my students, as a way to discuss the enormous impact tabletop role-playing has had on the aesthetics... Continue reading

  
• We Are But Worms
  September 04, 2025 by Anna Anthropy

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  Post-Forge (the forum was placed in read-only mode in 2010), many of the 2010s indie TTRPG community gathered on Google Plus, Google's failed attempt to compete with Facebook. (I never really made it... Continue reading

  
• Apocalypse World
  September 03, 2025 by Anna Anthropy

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  Apocalypse World, by Meguey and D. Vincent Baker, was first released in 2010, towards the tail end of an Indie RPG revolution centered around the online forum The Forge, which the Bakers were an activ... Continue reading

  
• AD&D: Tomb of Horrors
  September 02, 2025 by Anna Anthropy

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  Tomb of Horrors was created by Gary Gygax originally for "tournament" play. Designed to test experienced players with elaborate mechanical puzzles and instant-kill traps, it epitomizes Gygax's approac... Continue reading

  
• Diplomacy
  September 01, 2025 by Anna Anthropy

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  First released in 1959, Allan B. Calhamer’s Diplomacy is a game that straddles the board game and war game formats, and whose emphasis on negotiation provided fertile ground for nascent role-players... Continue reading