[sphinx]

I grew up with chess, poker, penny a point hearts, and board wargames. Never played D&D. The fantasy gamers took off in strange directions, while historical gamers pressed deeper into historical detail, to the point that the games became hard-core history, and practically unplayable.

I've not punched out counters for a good many years, but I still have to shake my head at a D&D review that uses Clue, Risk, Monopoly, and Stratego as his referents. There are a lot of great games out there.

[FreedomPoster]

Gygax was involved in hex grid wargames and miniatures wargames before he came up with D&D.

I’m an old AH and SPI wargamer myself. Still have a closet shelf full of that stuff for some reason - Panzerblitz, Napoleon at Waterloo, etc.

[bgill]

I never played it. We had all night hearts and spades instead of studying for finals.