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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pat" data-source="post: 4106268" data-attributes="member: 40088">No. The first three are lumped together because they overlap, but the rest are fairly different. Heroic Worlds and Shared Fantasy are probably the best, given their limitations (HW is mostly an index, and while SF is a landmark, I've seen some claims that they double-counted some of the people in the study so it's less representative than it implies). Steve Darlington's webpage is probably the the most accessible overall summary, but there is less focus on D&D than you'd think. The author is one of the few who didn't come into the hobby via D&D; there might be something more D&D-specific on the web at Dragonsfoot or the Acaeum or elsewhere, but I haven't seen it. Just straightening out the early editions of oD&D and Gygax versus Arneson is a trick.The wikipedia article on D&D made Featured Article status a few months ago, so it's in pretty good shape:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_&_Dragons" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_&_Dragons</a>Incidentally, the big web indexes for D&D are probably:The Acaeum for pre-1990 D&D:<a href="http://www.acaeum.com/" target="_blank">http://www.acaeum.com/</a>Brad Renfrow's archive for more recent D&D: <a href="http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/index.htm" target="_blank">http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/index.htm</a>-Pat</blockquote>