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<blockquote data-quote="mikey6990" data-source="post: 524887" data-attributes="member: 6815">Too add to the dice discussion.&nbsp; Dave Arneson told this story at DragonCon.&nbsp; It seems that they got the dice from a educational supplier in California.&nbsp; They had always removed the dice that they did not use (d12, d8?).&nbsp; When the game became popular, they did not want to take the time to remove some of the dice just to repackage them, so Gary rewrote some of the rules to use them.&nbsp; That is why early editions had so little use of some dice types.Another interesting thing that Dave said was that there is a naval submarine training school located near Lake Geneva and during the early days,&nbsp; D&amp;D became really popular among students and graduates of the naval training school.&nbsp; Dave always told people who asked him about the 'satanic' or 'cultish' aspects of D&amp;D that at one time, every nuclear submarine in the US fleet had at least one D&amp;D group.&nbsp; If D&amp;D folks had wanted to take over the world, they could have.&nbsp; He said it always seemed to shut people up.He was full of useless early D&amp;D trivia.Mike</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mikey6990, post: 524887, member: 6815"] Too add to the dice discussion. Dave Arneson told this story at DragonCon. It seems that they got the dice from a educational supplier in California. They had always removed the dice that they did not use (d12, d8?). When the game became popular, they did not want to take the time to remove some of the dice just to repackage them, so Gary rewrote some of the rules to use them. That is why early editions had so little use of some dice types. Another interesting thing that Dave said was that there is a naval submarine training school located near Lake Geneva and during the early days, D&D became really popular among students and graduates of the naval training school. Dave always told people who asked him about the 'satanic' or 'cultish' aspects of D&D that at one time, every nuclear submarine in the US fleet had at least one D&D group. If D&D folks had wanted to take over the world, they could have. He said it always seemed to shut people up. He was full of useless early D&D trivia. Mike [/QUOTE]

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