Here’s an unofficial supplement for the original D&D rules (OD&D) for games in the Hyborean Age:
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How “Dungeons” Changed The World
I suspect that many of my readers — like me — "wasted" their teenage years playing Dungeons and Dragons. But it turns out that it wasn’t a waste. The D&Ders of the late 1970s and 1980s now are driving much of mainstream culture. In the Boston Globe, Peter Berbegal has written an op-ed about this. A sample:
Dungeons and Dragons was a not a way out of the mainstream, as some parents feared and other kids suspected, but a way back into the realm of story-telling. This was what my friends and I were doing: creating narratives to make sense of feeling socially marginal. We were writing stories, grand in scope, with heroes, villains, and the entire zoology of mythical creatures.
Mobsters Prohibition Era Gangster Game
Mobsters is a role playing game of prohibition era gangsters.
Super Eight Footage Of A 1980s D&D Session
For the sake of pure nostalga, here’s a (silent) Super 8 film of a Dungeons and Dragons session from the 1980s. It looks a lot like the sessions I remember.
Chivalry and Sorcery 4th Edition – Free
The fourth edition of the venerable Chivalry and Sorcery RPG is available for free at RPG Now.