Gadgetory

you there's a new version of Dungeons & Dragons that's coming actually it's mostly here it's called the fifth edition which is a lot of additions so why did we need so many of them so back in the 1970s this guy named Gary Gygax created a tabletop game called chainmail it was kind of like a medieval version of risk but pretty quickly he and his buddy Dave Arneson started messing with the rules and it turned into something completely different it turned to a role-playing game we call it Dungeons & Dragons back then D&D was all about having a lot of friends around a table and telling each other stories about what the characters are doing in an imaginary world there are all sorts of rules about how to sword creating fireballs and figuring out key stats which led to the first edition of advanced types of dragons a D&D is really cool but it kind of caused a moral panic Pat Robertson got on the 700 club and he told Christians that Dee Dee was demonic and dangerous most people have surrendered absolutely evil they never allow cameras to record their bark or a tune but the evidence appears in frightening headlines almost every day Tom Hanks made this movie called faces and monsters where D&D basically drives him crazy and it's a crying harder than james van der beek of Dawson's Creek so they pulled out some of those demon stuff and cleaned up a bunch of complicated rules and the release advanced D&D second edition in 1989 it basically turned into a golden age of deity all sorts of people started playing we got crazy new worlds of playing there's a fantasy world vampire world desert world made D&D in space which these creepy creatures called mind flayers who had tentacles instead of mouths that was all great but fast-forward in 1997 and a new company owns D & D and they release a super complicated version and then another version that focused too much on tabletop play and then a competing game called Pathfinder which is actually based on the older TD rules started to be more popular than deity itself so we get this crazy nerd fight that already calls the Edition Wars where gamers are all playing different versions of DD or Pathfinder and just trying to find people who you want to roll dice with and kill some floating pedicle IP holders is worse than arguing about iPhones and androids all which is why we have this new fifth edition of D&D it goes back to its roots with simpler rules and more creativity it's trying to win back all those people who left during the Edition Wars if they pull it off it could be a resurrection for the franchise Pat Robertson would be proud you