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Re: What was the first RPG?

Subject: Re: What was the first RPG?
From: megst19+@pitt.edu (Mischa E Gelman)
Date: 1995/12/25
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, comp.sys.apple2, rec.games.roguelike.misc
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
References: <dwivje5j4m.fsf@katarina.lysator.liu.se> <qqloo5x5d6.fsf@tartarus.ucsd.edu> <4bi99u$clg@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <819848588.9331@fizban.demon.co.uk>

In article <819848588.9331@fizban.demon.co.uk>,
Scott Wilding <scott@fizban.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>megst19+@pitt.edu (Mischa E Gelman) wrote:
>
>
>>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.
>
>Sorry for a newbie question but, anyone know the details of what this
>'kicking out' involved and when it happened?

References:
- What was the first RPG?
  - From: ekman@lysator.liu.se (Fredrik Ekman)
- Re: What was the first RPG?
  - From: djohnson@tartarus.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
- Re: What was the first RPG?
  - From: megst19+@pitt.edu (Mischa E Gelman)
- Re: What was the first RPG?
  - From: scott@fizban.demon.co.uk (Scott Wilding)

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