Re: What was the first RPG?

[megst19+@pitt.edu (Mischa E Gelman)]

In article <qqloo5x5d6.fsf@tartarus.ucsd.edu>,
Darin Johnson <djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>dat@thinkage.on.ca (David Adrien Tanguay) writes:
>> What's the distinction between "adventure game" and RPG? I think it's a bit
>> fuzzy. You'll probably find that RPGs evolved out of adventures. The missing
>> links might be hard to classify as one or the other.
>
>And pen-paper RPG's evolved out of miniature war games (the big
>difference between the two there being scale).  But I think D&D really
>invented the concept and the term RPG (argh, I hate giving TSR credit
>for anything)
Don't give T$$$$$$$$$R credit - give it Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax who 
developed RPGs from wargames, as you mentioned.  Both were kicked out of 
T$$$R and have had their new materials wrecked by TSR lawyers.


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