Routinely Itemised: RPGs #11
Critical YAS! It's coming up to the weekend, and this means here on Geek Native I spend some time summing up recent RPG news for you.
What was the first RPG?
The first evening of tabletop roleplaying, as we would recognise it today, was run by Dave Arneson in 1971. The campaign setting was Blackmoor, and the game system was a modified version of Chainmail.
Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren created Chainmail, both members of the Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association, after being inspired (in part) by the game Siege of Bodenburg.…
