Role-Playing Game Golden Age Poster

In November, 1972 a meeting between two creative geniuses to play a simple game unleashed a wave of creativity that would forever change the world. Gary Gygax would sit down with Dave Arneson and friends to play a game of Blackmoor, the world's first role-playing game. The experience opened Gary's eyes to a whole new genre of game, a game heretofore unrealized by humanity. Rob Kuntz was at this event and would become a student, protege, and master of role-playing games, keeping many of his notes, ideas, and designs in his legendary Red Book. Arneson's Blackmoor would lead to Gygax's Greyhawk, and then to Kuntz's Kalibruhn. Like a torch being passed the idea of the roleplaying game was handed down from one seeker to another. The light of this wisdom would ultimately be formed into DUNGEONS & DRAGONS®. It would soon set the world ablaze with imagination and creativity, spawning a phenomena that would change the world. When Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson passed, so to did the torch pass