The Shadowed Old Gods of Game Design: Remembering Holmes, Moldvay and Mentzer History tends to flatten itself. Nuance becomes nostalgia, multiplicity turns into myth. The history of tabletop role-playing games is no exception. And the history of tabletop role-playing games is no different, for its creation myth usually has has two names engraved in gold: Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. Rightful twin creators of Dungeons & Dragons, the legendary duo whose collaboration (and later discord) gave rise to everything else which followed.

New on RPG Gazette: The Shadowed Old Gods of Game Design. A look at the quieter architects of D&D - Holmes, Moldvay, and Mentzer - who shaped how we play, dream, and imagine. Forgotten by many, their work still defines the soul of the game.

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