D&D General On This Day In 1983 The BBC Explains D&D

1983: BBC South East at Six explored the magical world of Dungeons & Dragons, with the help of Games Workshop founders Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.

Interestingly, the art used in the piece was not from D&D, but was actually the cover art of the 1980 Runequest 2nd Edition boxed set from Games Workshop.

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[Dioltach]

This was on the radio, wasn't it? I remember coming home from school and my mum telling me about it. I fell in love with the idea straight away, but it was a few more years before I ever got to play.

 

[Waller]

This was on the radio, wasn't it? I remember coming home from school and my mum telling me about it. I fell in love with the idea straight away, but it was a few more years before I ever got to play.

Are you not able to see the video?

 

[AnotherGuy]

Steve Jackson, Ian Livingstone and Joe Dever provided my early D&D before actual D&D

 

[xangpow]

WoW! I would have loved to talk with Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone back when they still worked at the early Games Workshop.

 

[rknop]

Steve Jackson is talking, on the shelf behind him is Car Wars by Steve Jackson.. but not by him.

 

[Mark Hope]

Chalk and Dever! The gods speak

Great video. I visited the GW design studio the year after this - looked pretty much exactly the same.

 

[dbm]

Gary Chalk too

(ninja’d!)

 

[Sacrosanct]

Steve Jackson is talking, on the shelf behind him is Car Wars by Steve Jackson.. but not by him.

It was a treat to see Car Wars and Autoduel behind him, because I've had those books for decades and they were huge inspirations to my own game design in the 80s.

 

[doctorhook]

I love these historical reports about our hobby. So quaint!