From Dungeons and Dragons to Baldur’s Gate 3: The shared history of TTRPGs and video games
The humanity ’s most democratic tabletop role - play secret plan , Dungeons & Dragons , co - created by Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax , was issue in 1974 by TSR . One of the first video recording game we could relegate as a role - playing biz was Dungeon , turn for PDP-10 mainframe computers just a year or two later . Now , in 2025 we have thousands of TTRPG systems fully grown and low , and 100 of role - play video games , many of which can hunt their roots to their analog cousins ....