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Why did it take until the 1970s to invent Dungeons & Dragons?
- PaulHoule 7y agoI can't imagine playing D&D with roman numerals... Str XIII Int IIX ... It would be no fun at all. Probably with limitations on manufacturing they wouldn't have the large number of different dice. Those dice look like fun from the outside but when you are playing you don't want to be looking for the 1d8 this time, looking for 3d4 (the first 2 are easy to find, the third went under the rug). Probably it would be more like a modern game (Toon, Paranoia, ...) where everything depends on one kind of dice.
- rolph 7y agoThere is a cliche trope of two old british WW I veterans resimulating battles using tin/pewter figures in much the same way a sandbox is used as a tactical tool. the popularity of the tolkien opus gained great traction after albert hoffmans historical lab accident. then the world was primed for D&D