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<blockquote data-quote="kronovan" data-source="post: 8667688" data-attributes="member: 6775134">Well the spy genre did to some extent in my area, but it may have been the exception. In the early 70's one of our local universities had a sort of Spy cosplay (remember newspaper clips with lots of Modesty Blaises and Flints) that ran over a weekend. They also ran a convoluted and elaborate I-Spy game that tended to get out of hand whenever Engineering students got involved.&nbsp; That said, the 1st year of our local SciFi CON was 71 So there was enough of an established community to organize and support that. I didn't attend until that CON until 10 years after it's inception, so I don't know what type of play may have occurred in the 70s. It certainly has its share of miniatures and TTRPG gaming tables now.Your point is well taken. It does seem as likely that were it not for Gygax and crew that TTRPG may have instead evolved out of the SciFi genre and community. As I alluded to above, even if it somehow evolved from a different genre than Fantasy or SciFi, with the run away success of SciFi movies and the increasing celebrity of its authors in the late 70's and early 80's, I can't imagine it wouldn't have come to be dominated by that genre.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kronovan, post: 8667688, member: 6775134"] Well the spy genre did to some extent in my area, but it may have been the exception. In the early 70's one of our local universities had a sort of Spy cosplay (remember newspaper clips with lots of Modesty Blaises and Flints) that ran over a weekend. They also ran a convoluted and elaborate I-Spy game that tended to get out of hand whenever Engineering students got involved. That said, the 1st year of our local SciFi CON was 71 So there was enough of an established community to organize and support that. I didn't attend until that CON until 10 years after it's inception, so I don't know what type of play may have occurred in the 70s. It certainly has its share of miniatures and TTRPG gaming tables now. Your point is well taken. It does seem as likely that were it not for Gygax and crew that TTRPG may have instead evolved out of the SciFi genre and community. As I alluded to above, even if it somehow evolved from a different genre than Fantasy or SciFi, with the run away success of SciFi movies and the increasing celebrity of its authors in the late 70's and early 80's, I can't imagine it wouldn't have come to be dominated by that genre. [/QUOTE]

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