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wraggster
September 13th, 2012, 00:00
Over at Wired, Ethan Gilsdorf interviews Jon Peterson (http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/09/new-d-d-history-book/), author of the new book Playing at the World. Gilsdorf calls it 'a must read,' though he cautions it 'is not intended for a general audience. It's a book for geeks, about geeks.' It is apparently an insanely-detailed history of role-playing games and wargames, including everything from Prussian kriegsspiel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel_(wargame)) up to Dungeons & Dragons (http://www.wizards.com/dnd/)and the beginning of computer RPGs (but none of that heathen stuff after 1980). Peterson says in the interview that he wanted to write a history of these games 'worthy of the future they are creating.' He apparently spent five years on the project, including unearthing a huge trove of previously-unknown historical documents.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/09/12/0311230/playing-at-the-world-a-huge-new-history-of-gaming