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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2799868" data-attributes="member: 14159">I'll agree, between a growing interest in Fantasy literature, the coming rebirth of Space Opera, the rise of the SCA and historical reenactment, and several other figures getting close to it, RPG's as we know them now were going to happen sometimes in the 1970's.Yes, depending on who was first to print it could have been much less influenced by wargames and more story oriented.&nbsp; It could have been much more historically oriented with little or no fantastic elements, or it could have been space opera instead of medieval fantasy.&nbsp; There is no easy way to know, suffice it to say all of them were building up to a point and D&amp;D gets the credit for being first to the summit, but it wasn't the only guy climbing the mountain at the time.As for larping, that's a completely different story, with pretty much a completely unrelated evolution that only occasionally touches back to tabletop RPG's.&nbsp; It's also much murkier, with pretty much completely parallel development in the US and Europe, and much less distinct who did what when, and many groups claim to be the original major larp group or to have made major innovations to rules and play style that others sprang from.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 2799868, member: 14159"] I'll agree, between a growing interest in Fantasy literature, the coming rebirth of Space Opera, the rise of the SCA and historical reenactment, and several other figures getting close to it, RPG's as we know them now were going to happen sometimes in the 1970's. Yes, depending on who was first to print it could have been much less influenced by wargames and more story oriented. It could have been much more historically oriented with little or no fantastic elements, or it could have been space opera instead of medieval fantasy. There is no easy way to know, suffice it to say all of them were building up to a point and D&D gets the credit for being first to the summit, but it wasn't the only guy climbing the mountain at the time. As for larping, that's a completely different story, with pretty much a completely unrelated evolution that only occasionally touches back to tabletop RPG's. It's also much murkier, with pretty much completely parallel development in the US and Europe, and much less distinct who did what when, and many groups claim to be the original major larp group or to have made major innovations to rules and play style that others sprang from. [/QUOTE]

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