The Deep History of Roleplaying Games

Posted by Rob on July 10, 2007 at 11:58 AM

It took a flood of comment spam notifications to remind me, but I used to write for this here blog about roleplaying games. And over at Old is the New New, my mostly-about-history blog, I've been blogging about the deep history of roleplaying games. (I'm also writing something on the subject for Jonathan Walton's eagerly awaited PUSH vol. 2, though I keep missing Jonathan's ridiculously generous deadlines.) So if there's anyone still hanging around these parts who hasn't seen this already, here's the first two parts of what should be an ongoing series:

Dungeon Master Zero
In which our hero goes looking for the roots of roleplaying games, and finds the Lost Tribe of Israel instead.

R&D
The Cold War avante-garde, from R&D to D&D, the secret origins of hex paper, Herman KAAAAHN!