stackyFACTSWhen your day job involves calculating mortality rates for policies, you naturally start daydreaming about killing goblins instead. Gary Gygax escaped his mundane corporate life by inventing a mathematical fantasy world that would eventually claim the social lives of millions.
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Dungeons & Dragons originally required players to use a completely separate tactical war game called Chainmail just to resolve its combat encounters. Gary…
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Pretending to be an elf fighting dragons involves shockingly high levels of applied statistics. Players routinely calculate the exact statistical variance of…
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The game that paved the way for modern nerds was bankrolled by repairing dirty soles. When Gary Gygax and Don Kaye couldn't find a publisher for Dungeons &…
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Staring exclusively at horizontal and vertical lines is the hallmark of a doomed player. The sneak attack always comes from an angled alignment that…
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Final Fantasy was originally given its dramatic title in 1987 simply because its creator, Hironobu Sakaguchi, was planning to quit the video game industry and…
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Modern medicine pales in comparison to flashing lights. Hand over your severely battered, unconscious magical beasts to a cheerful nurse, and a quick cheerful…
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