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"Never heard of Dungeons and Dragons? You must not have lived through the ’80s." no, you might be from the vast area called the rest of the world, where DnD wa
by tshanmu 9y ago
"Never heard of Dungeons and Dragons? You must not have lived through the ’80s."
no, you might be from the vast area called the rest of the world, where DnD was not available.
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- kohanz 9y agoIn fairness, The Walrus is primarily aimed at a Canadian audience.
- Tenhundfeld 9y agoOkay, reasonable point, but from the website: The Walrus is a general interest magazine about Canada and its place in the world. Criticizing a clearly Canadian website (even has a .ca TLD) for speaking to a Canadian (or North American) audience seems a bit silly, IMO.
- sampo 9y ago> vast area called the rest of the world, where DnD was not available It was translated into a lot of languages in the 80s. For example: French 1982, German 1983, Swedish 1986.
- simonh 9y agoThe anime themed Japanese rule books are hilarious. http://mystara.thorf.co.uk/jrc.php http://mystara.thorf.co.uk/jrc.php
- aidenn0 9y agoAlso absurdly high production values compared to my rule books that were stapled together pulp paper.
- sampo 9y agoThey were published in Japan in 1994, and are based on the Rules Cyclopedia -version of Dungeons & Dragons, published in 1991. http://www.tsrarchive.com/in/jp/jp-cyc.html http://www.tsrarchive.com/in/jp/jp-cyc.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_Rules_Cyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_Rules_Cyc...
- freeflight 9y agoThat still doesn't translate to the type of massive hype DnD seems to have attracted in NA. This might have to do with some competition being available outside NA, like British Games Workshop with Warhammer being a rather big thing in Europe.