Re: Digest Number 374

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_...>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 12:32:41 -0800


> I heartily agree. But I don't think D&D is simulationistic in any of
> it's incarnations. It's a boardgame.

It's actually a miniatures game with a heavy layer of dust & varnish. The predecessor to D&D was Chainmail, a set of Fantasy Miniatures Wargame rules. D&D's player characters were originally the army commanders, and the question was "how did they get that way?"

RR

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