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Gary gygan meme9/25/2023 ![]() If “a book is a pocket or portable dreamweaver,” then Gygax and Arneson systematized that dream with charts and rules and catalogs. In the early 1970s, Gygax and Dave Arneson harvested genre and pulp fiction to invent a new game, one that felt oddly familiar yet unlike any other experience. “Upon such a base I built my interest in fantasy,” Gygax wrote, “being an avid reader of all science fiction and fantasy literature since 1950.” ![]() ![]() D&D co-creator Gary Gygax lists nearly thirty pulp and genre writers as major influences on the development of the game. When I was a teen and enamored with Dungeons & Dragons, one treasure I discovered poring over the rules books was Appendix N of the Dungeon Masters Guide. A Hindu Rakshasa re-imagined in D&D’s Monster Manual
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