“Dungeons & Deceptions: The First D&D Players Push Back On The Legend Of Gary Gygax;” https://kotaku.com/dungeons-deceptions-the-first-d-d-players-push-back-1837516834
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Dungeons & Deceptions: The First D&D Players Push Back On The Legend Of Gary Gygax
Everybody calls Rob Kuntz last, he says. Those who want to know about the history of Dungeons & Dragons start with co-creator Gary Gygax’s kids, one of Gygax’s biographers, or D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast. As they’re wrapping things up, they might get around to dialing up Kuntz, a 63-year-old game designer. And once they call him, he tells them the same thing: Everything they know about the creation of the tabletop role-playing game is, in his opinion, sorely mistaken or flat-out wrong.