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| Dark Wizard |
Posted - 27 Jan 2014 : 01:57:33
For D&D's 40th Anniversary, Wizards encourages fans to play the game and enjoy. What better way to celebrate.
Also, if you're up for it, shout out your love of the game through the D&D Facebook Page and D&D Twitter Channel (or any social media would be fine I assume) using #DnD40.
To get the ball rolling, WotC posted thoughts and videos of a couple of familiar designers/authors speaking about their D&D experiences.
Link: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd%2F4news%2F20140126
Okay, it's Ed Greenwood and Troy Denning if anyone is curious but not curious enough to click the link. And now you probably clicked through. Ha!
Edit: Wizards updated the page with additional videos from Erin M. Evans and Richard Lee Byers.
(We're missing Paul S. Kemp and RA Salvatore and we'll have the whole Sundering crew.)
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Over at the Kobold Press blog (link), the kobolds have trapped some designers/authors-you-may-have-heard-of to interrogate them about their favorites and experiences regarding the game.
Part one of this blog series includes David "Zeb" Cook, Bruce Cordell, Jeff Grubb, Colin McComb, Wade Rockett, Robert Schwalb, and Margaret Weis. |
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| Dark Wizard |
Posted - 30 Jan 2014 : 21:37:56
Great post, Erik. It's fun to read about the links between gaming and your writing.
I've rounded up a few more designer/author 40th Anniversary posts.
A trio more from the Kobolds: http://www.koboldpress.com/k/front-page17530.php#.UurBe_ZQ1y8
This time from Steve Kenson, Bill Slavicsek, and Ed Stark.
Edit: The Kobolds added a part four: http://www.koboldpress.com/k/front-page17538.php#.Uu6GSPZQ1y8
With Leonard Balsera, Todd Lockwood, and Ari Marmell.
Here one from Steve Winter (aside from his Kobold Press Q&A): http://www.howlingtower.com/2014/01/happy-40th-birthday-d.html
One from Mike Selinker: http://selinker.tumblr.com/post/74642451255/a-love-letter-to-dungeons-dragons
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And for fans looking for an extended activity they can get involved with, Stelios V. Perdios of the d20 Dark Ages blog, is organizing a D&D 40th Anniversary blog hop with a D&D-related topic prompt for each day in February, making it month long celebration of the game and how gamers entered the hobby.
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| Erik Scott de Bie |
Posted - 30 Jan 2014 : 17:44:50
I wrote a blog post about D&D's birthday, and how it has affected my writing career (hint: it's kinda the reason I'm a writer at all!).
Cheers |
| hashimashadoo |
Posted - 28 Jan 2014 : 06:29:00
I'm only twenty six. It's tough for me to concieve that DnD is this old. In my mind, DnD is only two or three years older than I am. |
| Plaguescarred |
Posted - 28 Jan 2014 : 00:32:13
Happy 40th anniversary D&D! I started playing 25 years ago with my friends, which i'm still blessed enought to have around to this day, including my mentor, a rare thing i know. This game has done so much to help me as a young kid, it also helped me tremendously with my english, i wouldn't be working in aviation if it wasn't of that Thank you D&D! #LongLiveDnD |
| Dark Wizard |
Posted - 27 Jan 2014 : 23:15:51
A bit more from the Kobold Press blog: D&D’s 40th Anniversary: Words to Celebrate, Part Two.
This part with Q&A regarding designers' first D&D games and favorite gaming experiences from Wolfgang Baur, Ed Greenwood, Ben McFarland, Richard Pett, Mike Selinker, Stan!, Steven Winter. |
| Bladewind |
Posted - 27 Jan 2014 : 22:43:09
This game still brings friends together, all over the world. My buddies from my earliest days of D&D and I still have at it every week.
May our dice roll 20 for at least another couple of decades! |
| Thauranil |
Posted - 27 Jan 2014 : 11:30:41
Wow congrats on 40 years. |
| The Arcanamach |
Posted - 27 Jan 2014 : 02:55:58
Nice little bit DW thanks for sharing. I like how Ed tells a story! |
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