What is the history of the D&D game?
E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson were tabletop wargamers; that is, they used lead miniatures to reconstruct historical battles or construct their own battles. Their favorite era to set their battles in was the medieval period. Gygax, along with Jeff Perren, codified a set of rules for conducting both individual and group combat. Then, along with Brian Blume, they published these rules through Guidon Games (which consisted of Gygax, et al. and was run out of Gygax’s basement) in 1969 under the name Chainmail. At some point, their battles received an injection of fantasy. Originally, the fantasy elements in Chainmail were limited to special military units for “wizards” and “heroes”. Eventually, however, the basic concept behind the existing idea of the play-by-mail military campaign, where each player took the part of a ruler who sent out armies as well as engaged in diplomacy & intrigue, was soon combined with the game. Soon, the “wizard” and “hero” were removed from the battlefield and s
