Of Dice and Men : The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who Play It (Hardcover)

from samaside

Title: Of Dice and Men Author: David M. Ewalt Release Date: August 20, 2013 Publisher: Scribner Source: Edelweiss DRC Genre(s): Non-Fiction, Pop Culture, Subculture, Board Games Review Spoilers: Low Despite an impressive amount of geeky knowledge and a fairly nerdy childhood, I am new to the whol...

from LibraryCin

This is a history of the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. The author played himself as a child, gave it up for about ten years, then went back to it, and got particularly involved again as he was researching for the book. I really enjoyed this. I haven't played much D&D myself, but I...

from Razinha

Seems at times more of a personal journey than a chronology of the game. Still, it's an interesting read. I first became aware of D&D in the late 1970s when I heard of friends playing and one of them tried to clone the DM. I've never been big on it, but did try a run at DMing for my younger sons ...

from NielsenGW

In 1974, there was no other game on the planet like Dungeons & Dragons. Conceived as an imaginative role-playing game by Tactical Studies Rules, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson's D&D was rooted not in historical fact, but in the world of fantasy, the world of J.R.R. Tolkien, Jack Vance, and Michael M...

from technolepsy

Pairing his reporter's sensibility with a passionate, nerdy zeal, David M. Ewalt weaves the nappy threads of D&D's history, his own soul-baring journey of geek-enlightenment, and compelling in-game narratives into what must surely be the Bayeux Tapestry of Dungeons & Dragons.Ewalt masterfully ret...