Just heard about this on the Jim Rome radio show that D&D is now 30 years old, concordmonitor.com:

Dungeons & Dragons players gathered in game stores around the country yesterday [Saturday 10/16/2004] to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the grandfather of fantasy role-playing games - a pop culture phenomenon that has influenced myriad video games, books and movies.

Though I haven’t played in a long time, in honor of this anniversary I (briefly) broke out the dice and here’s the manuals …



… that we bought awhile back from the local Wizards of the Coast in the mall, which has since gone out of business. I’ll admit it, I was a D&D geek when growing up. I got the manuals to share with my children and our middle son, Sean, really liked D&D. Wish I had more time to check into this and see where it has gone over the years as far as integration with online gaming. I’m thinking games like Everquest have eaten the D&D lunch.