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Edith Frank. Edith Frank ( née Holländer; 16 January 1900 – 6 January 1945) [1] was the mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank and her older sister Margot. After the family were discovered in hiding in Amsterdam during the German occupation, she was transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp .
Children. 1. David Lance Arneson ( / ˈɑːrnɪsən /; October 1, 1947 – April 7, 2009) was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game (RPG), Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s. [3] Arneson's early work was fundamental to the role-playing game (RPG) genre, pioneering ...
- Game designer
- April 7, 2009 (aged 61), Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
- David Lance Arneson, October 1, 1947, Hennepin County, Minnesota, U.S.
- American
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Dec 28, 2017 · Eight years after the release of 3rd edition, Wizards of the Coast released the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons.While the game was fun and enjoyable, many players said it no longer felt like D&D
- Gygax was a war game fan first. Before Gygax started developing D&D, playing tabletop war games—strategy games that realistically simulate armed conflicts—was his main hobby.
- D&D started as an afterthought to Chainmail, an earlier game created by Gygax. At the end of the rules for Chainmail, Gygax included around a dozen pages of supplementary rules that went beyond the normal historical fare outlined in war games.
- Using Gygax’s fantasy rules, Arneson created the first D&D prototype, Blackmoor. After meeting Gygax at a convention in 1969, Arneson, a war game fan based in Minnesota, took Chainmail’s fantasy rules and ran with them.
- Gygax’s children were among the game’s first test audiences. Gygax spent the next few months expanding the information shared by Arneson into a D&D prototype.
Mar 4, 2024 · The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970 – 1977 explores the game’s history, including co-creator Gary Gygax’s first draft of D&D. This marks that draft’s first release to the public.
Feb 29, 2024 · That’s the case for the rare first draft of Dungeons & Dragons, which will be reproduced for the first time ever in a new book, The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons: 1970-1977. Polygon sat ...
The first novel based on the Dungeons & Dragons game was Quag Keep (1978) by Andre Norton. Based upon Norton's first experience at playing the Dungeons & Dragons game, it told the story of seven gamers who were drawn into a fantasy setting. The sequel, Return to Quag Keep (2006), was published after Norton had died in 2005.
