tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4443896993888747939.post9053566035398309139..comments2024-03-28T00:43:46.126-07:00Comments on 5 Stone Games: 1o Reasons past is a foreign country D&D 1970's edition editionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4443896993888747939.post-30682453330996099412013-03-16T12:05:05.178-07:002013-03-16T12:05:05.178-07:00#3 might be true in a broad-brush sense, but I thi...#3 might be true in a broad-brush sense, but I think the fanbase of D&D in the late '70s, (I started playing in '76) was disproportionally rich in the "socially maladapted".<br /><br />#8 -- Laughable though it was, I don't think it's much less laughable today, though casual research is much easier to conduct via the internet if one is so inclined. Revisionist perspectives in academia were still just picking up momentum, so #1 also applies to such historical knowledge as players generally possessed.<br /><br />#10 -- "Stoner" culture was definitely where D&D most rapidly spread early on, as it had already heavily embraced literary fantasy, and begun to influence it as well (q.v. contemporaneous issues of <i>Heavy Metal</i> magazine).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4443896993888747939.post-58076828992407524872013-01-12T19:19:34.761-08:002013-01-12T19:19:34.761-08:00Stoner culture took a while to reach the birthplac...Stoner culture took a while to reach the birthplaces of D&D - a close examination of early issues of Dragon Magazine will show the point where references to people playing druids because of their fondness to herb start to appear. Photos of Arneson and Gygax's crews in the early '70s (OD&D came out in 1974) show a lot of crew cuts and button-down shirts. My feeling is that Frodo Lives buttons and bongs in the shape of wizards were both unexpected features of the audience that eagerly embraced D&D, not the culture it arose from. Unlike Tolkien super-fandom, though, I do hear that some members of the Lake Geneva crew enthusiastically got into drug culture after D&D was already a phenomenon.Tavishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08589149850152191198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4443896993888747939.post-89804467570254587122013-01-12T11:47:17.358-08:002013-01-12T11:47:17.358-08:00High praise from someone with as quality a sight a...High praise from someone with as quality a sight as yours. Thanks for commenting.5stonegameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10694550968360550229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4443896993888747939.post-12561928977350351692013-01-12T10:02:57.230-08:002013-01-12T10:02:57.230-08:00Well said.Well said.John Matthew Staterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02310914386482078369noreply@blogger.com