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Comparison of tabletop role playing games is a comparison of multiple role playing games, highlighting various basic features.

Dungeons and Dragons[edit]

This section is an excerpt from Dungeons & Dragons.[edit]
An elaborate D&D game in progress. Among the gaming aids here are dice, a variety of miniatures, and a dungeon diorama.

Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD)[1] is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.[2][3][4] The game was first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR).[4] It has been published by Wizards of the Coast, later a subsidiary of Hasbro, since 1997. The game was derived from miniature wargames, with a variation of the 1971 game Chainmail serving as the initial rule system.[3][5] D&D's publication is commonly recognized as the beginning of modern role-playing games and the role-playing game industry,[4][6] and also deeply influenced video games, especially the role-playing video game genre.[7][8][9]

D&D departs from traditional wargaming by allowing each player to create their own character to play instead of a military formation. These characters embark upon adventures within a fantasy setting. A Dungeon Master (DM) serves as referee and storyteller for the game, while maintaining the setting in which the adventures occur, and playing the role of the inhabitants of the game world, known as non-player characters (NPCs). The characters form a party and they interact with the setting's inhabitants and each other. Together they solve problems, engage in battles, explore, and gather treasure and knowledge. In the process, player characters earn experience points (XP) to level up, and become increasingly powerful over a series of separate gaming sessions.[2][6][10] Players choose a class when they create their character, which gives them special perks and abilities every few levels.

The early success of D&D led to a proliferation of similar game systems. Despite the competition, D&D has remained the market leader in the role-playing game industry.[11][12] In 1977, the game was split into two branches: the relatively rules-light game system of basic Dungeons & Dragons, and the more structured, rules-heavy game system of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as AD&D).[13][14][15] AD&D 2nd Edition was published in 1989. In 2000, a new system was released as D&D 3rd edition, continuing the edition numbering from AD&D; a revised version 3.5 was released in June 2003. These 3rd edition rules formed the basis of the d20 System, which is available under the Open Game License (OGL) for use by other publishers. D&D 4th edition was released in June 2008.[16] The 5th edition of D&D, the most recent, was released during the second half of 2014.[12]

In 2004, D&D remained the best-known,[17] and best-selling,[18] role-playing game in the US, with an estimated 20 million people having played the game and more than US$1 billion in book and equipment sales worldwide.[2] The year 2017 had "the most number of players in its history—12 million to 15 million in North America alone".[19] D&D 5th edition sales "were up 41 percent in 2017 from the year before, and soared another 52 percent in 2018, the game's biggest sales year yet".[12] The game has been supplemented by many premade adventures, as well as commercial campaign settings suitable for use by regular gaming groups.[20] D&D is known beyond the game itself for other D&D-branded products, references in popular culture, and some of the controversies that have surrounded it, particularly a moral panic in the 1980s, which attempted to associate it with Satanism and suicide.[2][21][22] The game has won multiple awards and has been translated into many languages.


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References[edit]

  1. ^ "D&D: The 'What does that stand for?' list". Geek Native. February 18, 2019. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d Waters, Darren (April 26, 2004). "What happened to Dungeons and Dragons?". BBC News. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  3. ^ a b D'Anastasio, Cecilia (August 26, 2019). "Dungeons & Deceptions: The First D&D Players Push Back On The Legend Of Gary Gygax". Kotaku. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c Michaud, Jon (November 2, 2015). "The Tangled Cultural Roots of Dungeons & Dragons". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  5. ^ Birnbaum 2004
  6. ^ a b J. Patrick Williams; Sean Q. Hendricks; W. Keith Winkler (2006). Gaming as Culture, Essays on Reality, Identity and Experience in Fantasy Games. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. pp. 1–14, 27. ISBN 0-7864-2436-2. OCLC 63122794.
  7. ^ Kogod, Theo (2020-09-30). "11 Ways Dungeons & Dragons Influenced Video Games". TheGamer. Retrieved 2022-08-06.
  8. ^ "The influence of role-playing in video games". www.gametopiastudios.com. Retrieved 2022-08-06.
  9. ^ "The Influence of Dungeons and Dragons on Video Games". The Strong National Museum of Play. 2011-05-06. Retrieved 2022-08-06.
  10. ^ Jahromi, Neima (October 24, 2017). "The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons & Dragons". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  11. ^ "Frankly, the difference in sales between Wizards and all other producers of roleplaying games is so staggering that even saying there is an 'RPG industry' at all may be generous." Cook, Monte. "The Open Game License as I See It – Part II". Archived from the original on March 28, 2006. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  12. ^ a b c Pilon, Mary (July 8, 2019). "The Rise of the Professional Dungeon Master". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on July 10, 2019. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  13. ^ Gygax; "From the Sorcerer's Scroll" in The Dragon #26.
  14. ^ Vehovec, Doug (August 23, 2018). "Is There a Best Edition of D&D? Absolutely". Nerdarchy. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  15. ^ Appelcline, Shannon. "Players Handbook (1e) - Product History". Dungeon Masters Guild. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  16. ^ Harold Johnson; Steve Winter; Peter Adkison; Ed Stark; Peter Archer (2004). 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast. p. 253. ISBN 0-7869-3498-0. OCLC 56961559.
  17. ^ According to a 1999 survey in the United States, 6% of 12- to 35-year-olds have played role-playing games. Of those who play regularly, two thirds play D&D. (Dancey; Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary)
  18. ^ Products branded Dungeons & Dragons made up over fifty percent of the RPG products sold in 2005. (Hite; State of the Industry 2005)
  19. ^ Brodeur, Nicole (May 4, 2018). "Behind the scenes of the making of Dungeons & Dragons". The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on May 13, 2018. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  20. ^ Heller, Emily (May 26, 2018). "A beginner's guide to playing Dungeons and Dragons". Polygon. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  21. ^ Waldron, David (2005). "Role-Playing Games and the Christian Right: Community Formation in Response to a Moral Panic". The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. 9 (1). University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress): 3. doi:10.3138/jrpc.9.1.003. hdl:1959.17/44257. ISSN 1703-289X.
  22. ^ McMartin Preschool: Anatomy of a Panic - Retro Report. The New York Times. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
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