Topic summary
Tabletop role-playing games
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Tabletop role-playing game.
Early role-playing
Tabletop role-playing games have origins in wargaming, which has roots in ancient strategy games, particularly chess and its predecessor Chaturanga. From the late 18th century to the 19th century, chess variants evolved into modern wargames, most notably Kriegsspiel. Over a century later, David Wesely developed Braunstein, the first tabletop roleplaying game, from Strategos, and then the miniature wargameChainmail, was released in 1971, both of which became the basis for Dungeons & Dragons.