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One more thing for the Watership Down rereaders
There's a roleplaying game!
The best description of the history of the game seems to be at a 2019 Kickstarter page to bring it back into print. It dates all the way back to 1976 and was one of the first tabletop RPGs out there - just a couple of years after Dungeons & Dragons. And the reissue is still in print - you can buy it off their website if you want.
The best description of the history of the game seems to be at a 2019 Kickstarter page to bring it back into print. It dates all the way back to 1976 and was one of the first tabletop RPGs out there - just a couple of years after Dungeons & Dragons. And the reissue is still in print - you can buy it off their website if you want.
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Not Watership Down, but I remember being all amazed when I came across a (somewhat dire-looking) board game for Cherryh's Downbelow Station in the bargain bin room at Gencon one year. I had no idea that anything Cherryh had been game-licensed! (No, I didn't buy it, so I can't report as to whether it really was dire or just looked that way, haha.)
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On a side note, I think it's interesting how much TTRPGs have in common with tabletop wargames, especially the early ones ... and how little gamers of either variety seem to know about the other ones! It's a completely separate subculture. I mainly know about the tabletop wargames because I grew up with my dad playing them, and sometimes playing them with him, and some of them even have the stats/experience-points aspect where you have characters who grow between games. I suspect there was probably more cross-pollination in the really early days, with the two branches having wandered off into very separate worlds later on.
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