EAN: 9780262048224

MONSTERS ALIENS AND HOLES IN THE GROUND - STU H...

A richly illustrated  encyclopedic deep dive into the history of roleplaying games.   When Gary
Gygax and Dave Arneson released Dungeons & Dragons in 1974  they created the first roleplaying
game of all time. Little did they know that their humble box set of three small digest-sized
booklets would spawn an entire industry practically overnight. In Monsters  Aliens  and Holes
in the Ground   Stu Horvath explores how the hobby of roleplaying games  commonly known as RPGs
blossomed out of an unlikely pop culture phenomenon and became a dominant gaming form by the
2010s. Going far beyond D&D   this heavily illustrated tome covers more than three hundred
different RPGs that have been published in the last five decades.   Monsters  Aliens  and Holes
in the Ground features (among other things) bunnies  ghostbusters  soap operas  criminal bears
space monsters  political intrigue  vampires  romance  and  of course  some dungeons and
dragons. In a decade-by-decade breakdown  Horvath chronicles how RPGs have evolved in the time
between their inception and the present day  offering a deep and gratifying glimpse into a
hobby that has changed the way we think about games and play.

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