Best documentaries on the history and anecdotes of TTRPGs like Secrets of Blackmoor?
jesus christ how horrifying
>>96883818There's one for World of Darkness.I remember some depressing D&D LARP documentary from GoG from 2010 or something.Some old game designers are still alive, check YouTube for their interviewa or videos if they make them themselves.But Blackmoor is great. Who would have thought it was a derivative of 19th century wargame Strategos. I hate it how they pronoince it as Strateegos. It's just strategos, like in Greek. Amazing how tabletop gaming as we know it is a Wisconsinite invention.
>>96890634Arneson was Minnesotan. As was Dave Wesely.
>>96883818Whatever you do, don't trust anything written by or involving Ben Riggs.
>>968838181) Why would you care? And think for a long while about it before answering the question2) Why should anyone care?Consider this - the hobby had a completely insular and separate history in my country, that is tied only to the country. DnD didn't fucking arrive here until WotC took over. Yet the hobby was here since the early 80s. Anything tied with "global" history of the hobby has zero application here, and likewise, local history has zero application to global history of the hobby.Hell, even the sole notion of the global history of TTRPG is a bold-faced lie, that existed solely to prop up bunch of random has-beens from the 70s as some sort of god-like figures, for the sake of their bottom line.tl;dr why bother?
