On the 50th Birthday of Dungeons & Dragons
According to historian, Jon Peterson , the birthday of Dungeons & Dragons is somewhere around late January or early February, which would put today as some time during the celebratory period. I mean why wouldn't we spend a few weeks celebrating a game that has impacted millions of people and spawned an entirely new form of entertainment. While Dungeons & Dragons has been around longer than I have been alive, my own foray into this incredible hobby is just a scant 23 years old. I didn't start with TSR's rules, and I actively dislike THAC0 when I encountered it in Bioware's Baldur's Gate . So I never played any stripe of Basic or Expert, either of the editions of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, and definitely not OD&D, though I do have a short story about that edition that I'll share at the end. In late 2001, my friends and I started playing Magic the Gathering with the start of the Odyssey block. This meant we would routinely go to our local ga...