Dungeon and Dragons

Dungeons and Dragons is a fantasy, role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson and first published in 1974. (Dungeons and Dragons FAQ) Dungeons and Dragons derived from wargames but departs from traditional wargaming assigning each player a specific character rather than an army or group of units. It is widely considered as the beginning of modern role-playing games and amassed a fan base of 3.5 million players around the world 7 years after release and a total of twenty million players in total overall. It is the most widely recognised and played role-playing game and has been sold is 50 countries and translated into a dozen languages and has released multiple editions over the course of the last 39 years. The game focuses on players grouping together and creating ‘parties’  of adventurers, during the course of the game each player directs the actions of their character and their interactions with other characters which is performed via verbal impersonations of their characters. The rules and events of the game are depicted by the Dungeon Master who selects various NPCs , party encounters and the settings in which these events occur with the outcome of these encounters based upon the player’s choices and actions. Each individual character has multiple different attributes that are determined at the beginning of the game by each player with more recent versions of the game determining the attribute values using a points system.