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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9424529" data-attributes="member: 86653">It's worth pointing out that D&D is an altered and commercial version of Dave Arneson's Blackmoor. I'm sure we were on the cusp of someone hitting on the idea and making it commercial. If it wasn't Gygax, it would have been someone else. Perhaps someone in Dave's circle. Dave Megarry took the dungeon aspects of Blackmoor and created a boardgame, Dungeon! from his experience playing in Blackmoor.Otherwise, it likely would have developed as a peculiar offshoot of improv theater. The modern form of which can be traced back to Viola Spolin in the 1940s. Her foundational work on the topic, Improvisation for the Theater, was published in 1963. After all, RPGs are long-form improv theater games with dice and far too many rules.</blockquote>