D&D's Celebrity Players Explain Its Recent Surge in Popularity

Dungeons & Dragons has been around since 1974, when Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson published the first rule set - one that sparked the dawn of almost all other tabletop role-playing games - from a basement in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. By the end of the 1980s, tens of millions of players worldwide were plundering dungeons and slaying dragons, and despite social stigma (and a pretty intense political movement) during the 70s and 80s, D&D remained one of the most popular games in all of geekdom.