Dungeons & Dragons
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Dungeons & Dragons is a tabletop fantasy role-playing game originally designed by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by the Gygax-owned company Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR). The game is currently published by Wizards of the Coast, a division of Hasbro. D&D's publication is widely regarded as the beginning of modern role-playing games and, by extension, the entire role-playing game industry. SMAUG derives many of its concepts (armor class, saving throws, etc.) from D&D. Additionally, the original Blackmoor was the name of Arneson's first fantasy RPG and later became a campaign setting within D&D.
Acknowledgements
DikuMUD's concepts were directly based on TSR's D&D concepts. Consequently, they acknowledge the creators from the original credits in the Basic Rules of D&D.
The following individuals have made this work possible through its years of evolution: Dave Arneson, Brian Blume, Dave Cook, Anne C. Gray, Ernie Gygax, E. Gary Gygax, Allen Hammack, Kevin Hendryx, John Eric Holmes, Harrold Johnston, Tim Kask, Jeff Key, Rob Kuntz, Alan Lucien, Steve Marsh, Tom Moldvay, Mike Mornard, Jon Pickens, Brian Pitzer, Michael Price, Patrick L. Price, Paul Reiche, Evan Robinson, Gordon Schick, Lawrence Schick, Don Snow, Edward G. Sollers, Garry Spiegle, Stephen D. Sullivan, Ralph Wagner, Jim Ward, Jean Wells, Bill Wilkerson, Donald Paterson, and Frank Mentzer.
