The characters may find hidden treasure, dangerous dungeons to explore, or a band of monsters waiting to attack. Using a combination of mathematics and many-sided dice, which help to determine actions, all the players work as a team in the campaign. With the help of a narrator and game organizer referred to as the Dungeon Master, each player creates a character based on preexisting guidelines. (Tactical Studies Rules), in 1973, and established the basic rules for the game. Game involving model soldiers going to war, Gygax and Arneson devised a game of monsters and medieval-type heroes who venture on a quest. Gary Gygax (1938–2008) and Dave Arneson (1947–2009) created Dungeons & Dragons, basing play on the rules of earlier military-based role-playing games. Friends and strangers silence their phones and set established playing times in order to meet in person to explore fantasy worlds in quests and adventures created within their own groups. As Americans have become more reliant on new technology and social media, many are finding pleasure in face-to-face game playing. Although Dungeons & Dragons lost popularity in the 1980s and 1990s due to the accessibility of video games, unfounded accusations by some outspoken religious groups, and internal company restructuring, today the game is more popular than ever, among both the players who grew up with it and a new generation of fans. By 1977 it had split into basic and advanced versions. The role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons was first published in 1974 and soon became an underground success.
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