The story of the arcane table-top Game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running legal Battle waged by its cocreators.
About author(s): Jon Peterson , a leading expert on Dungeons & Dragons and role-playing games, is the author of P laying at the World , Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana (a Hugo Award finalist), the New York Times bestseller Heroes\' Feast , and The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity (MIT Press)..
That record amply demonstrates how the turbulent experience of creating something as momentous as Dungeons & Dragons can make people remember things a bit differently from the way they actually happened.
With Game Wizards , Peterson restores historical particulars long obscured by competing narratives spun by the one-time partners.
And he chronicles TSR\'s reckless expansion and near-fatal corporate infighting, which culminated with the company in debt and overextended and the end of Gygax\'s losing Battle to retain control over TSR and D&D .
He recounts the Satanic Panic accusations that D&D was sacrilegious and dangerous, and how they made the Game famous.
Peterson describes Gygax and Arneson\'s first meeting and their work toward the 1974 release of the game; the founding of TSR and its growth as a company; and Arneson\'s acrimonious departure and subsequent challenges to TSR.
As the game\'s fiftieth anniversary approaches, Peterson--a noted authority on role-playing games--explains how D&D and its creators navigated their successes, setbacks, and controversies.
In Game Wizards , Jon Peterson chronicles the rise of Dungeons & Dragons from hobbyist pastime to mass market sensation, from the initial collaboration to the later feud of its creators, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.
When Dungeons & Dragons was first released to a small hobby community, it hardly seemed destined for mainstream success--and yet this arcane tabletop role-playing Game became an unlikely pop culture phenomenon.
The story of the arcane table-top Game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running legal Battle waged by its cocreators
