1983: How DUNGEONS & DRAGONS cast its spell | South East at Six | Retro Gaming | BBC Archive
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- Mike Donkin entered the magical world of Dungeons & Dragons, following the story of how Games Workshop founders Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone brought the concept to the UK.
The pair are interviewed alongside D&D alumni Gary Chalk (illustrator and model-maker) and Joe Dever (author and game designer).
The US tabletop role-playing fantasy game was originally launched in 1974 by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and claims to have a reputed 13m players worldwide, including new users inspired to sample the game following the 2023 feature film starring Chris Pine and Hugh Grant.
Clip taken from South East at Six, originally broadcast on BBC One (South East), Thursday 6 October 1983.
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I can't say I was much of a nerd back in the day, but I must admit, those early Fighting Fantasy books written by Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone were actually pretty good fun.
Steve has just released a new book and I met him recently to get a signed copy.
The fighting fantasy books by Jackson & Livingstone were amazing, I loved them as a kid back in the 80s and 90s. Have to admit to buying new copies of these recently to relive a part of my childhood and finding them as much fun as I did back then.
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And I still have a couple of dozen Fighting Fantasy books on the bookshelf...
I was born in 1983 but I always loved the art of fantasy stuff, like related stuff, say... Warcraft 1 and 2. Diablo 1 and 2. What those things were based off of. I used to just collect the art/concept books from the computer game boxes. I would go to game stores trying to find those art books (they'd basically throw them away or literally sell them for 1 penny...) but they'd run out. lol I got a few in the past.
Chalk & Dever - the men behind the Lone Wolf book series.
I love Gary Chalk’s drawing style, especially in the original Talisman board game.
"A cross between a hobby and a cult"
Eddie Munson could vouch for that view.
"Sweeping the south-east"? I know it's a local programme, but it was all over the country by 1983. I'd been playing D&D for over a year and was going live role-playing at Peckforton castle by 1983.
Geeks are consistently the same throughout history. I’m convinced that geeks during the reign of Henry VIII was just as enthusiastic about their turnip collection.
The news reader is a Good Lawful Bard. And yes the good old days of Games Workshop before it became all corporate and re-branded itself as Warhammer, it wanting to be the UK version of dark Disney.
Weird that the picture behind the presenter is not from d&d it's from the Runequest box
Meanwhile, in the town of Hawkins, Indiana...
That picture in the background at the beginning: what computer game or video game used that as box artwork?
It was RuneQuest table top pencil and paper RPG
What is the board game they are playing with the world map half way through?
When being a nerd was a completely analog experience - I remember it quite fondly.
And then the wave passed and people started thinking again that table top rpgs were a fad. And now they're back again and far bigger than in the early '80s.
Maybe for you. This stuff never went away.
when did Jackson leave GW to set up Steve Jackson Games?
GW Steve Jackson and the Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games are actually two separate people (one is English and one is American).
@@marks6928 Fair enough, I just saw Car Wars in the background and put 2 and two together
@@stocktonjoansthat’s fair enough, I only found it out by looking it up after seeing your comment and thinking “hmm that’s a good question, I’d like to know the answer to that” 🙂
yeah the Steve Jackson in the U.S. did Ogre and such; the Steve Jackson in the UK did the Fighting Fantasy choose your own adventure books and was one of the founders of Games Workshop in the late 1970s.
Even more complex is that Steve Jackson (US) came over to the Uk and bashed out two Fighting Fantasy books, so there are two completely separate men called Steve Jackson who have penned them! (His were Scorpion Swamp and Robot Commando)
The main presenter went on to quit his job at the BBC. He left the South East studio, presented main news shows, then went back to the South East's new studio only to blow the whistle about the toxic culture there a few years later.
My best friend at school loved D&D. I tried to sit in once, I didn’t get it. It didn’t do anything. It seemed so dull compared to a zx spectrum 😂
Not just first comment - first view! A first for me! Oh dear. I'll try to set my sights higher.
Am I just being cynical or was that a deliberate twist of the Carlsberg tin?
Interesting. My immediate thought was ahh, the good old days when nobody at the BBC had a total meltdown just because a brand was visible.
Stop saying "cult"! 😁
Of course, then came the .....................Oh yes the computer??X...🤪🤪🖥🖥🤳🏼🤳🏼✍🏼
BBC managed to find the only 2 female players even in 1982
Back then even dnd nerds were better thanks todays cause todays are soulless corpses that don’t know squat of the lore no matter what they say
You’re making yourself look silly with this comment.
@@marks6928 on whose ground, ya future troll starter
@@user-vx6gs1ci1hon the ground of every reasonable person reading your comment.
“These young people don’t know anything, despite what they say”.
Ok bro 👍 there’s absolutely no reason to take anything you say seriously.
@@user-vx6gs1ci1hthat silly comment doesn't cancel out your 1st one.
@@marks6928 well it’s true dnd was ruined by woc and modern dnd is no fun anymore
Posh people game
This working class Scouser and his working class RPG-playing mates beg to differ.