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In the mid-1980s a corporate power struggle inside TSR caused Gary Gygax to be ousted from the company. Due to Creative Differences between the creators, the original game became split into Basic Dungeons & Dragons aimed at beginning players, and the more complex (and ultimately more popular) Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in 1977. This is a little odd from a reality-modeling standpoint but works beautifully in a mass-combat system where a unit is either alive or dead with no hit points to track.

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Instead of armor reducing the damage from a successful hit, the armor class in D&D reduces the odds of an injuring blow landing in the first place, as it takes into account the ability to dodge a hit, and assumes armor absorbs weak and glancing hits (but if the blow does land fully, it does full damage). note The miniatures gaming influence can still be seen today, in the Armor Class system.

It started as a companion book to a miniature-based tabletop wargame called Chainmail. The history of D&D is more than a little complicated. The game revolves around the now-classic set-up of a Game Master (known in official D&D terms as the Dungeon Master), who controls all the non-player characters and the players, who each control a Player Character and deal with the challenges provided by the Dungeon Master. TSR founder Gary Gygax based the system of the game on TSR's miniatures combat system, Chainmail. Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystaraĭungeons & Dragons, shortened to D&D, was first published in 1974 by TSR (Tactical Studies Rules).The Temple of Elemental Evil (video game).Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast.Dungeons & Dragons (1983) (animated series).Dungeons & Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness.

Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God.

Dragonlance: Fifth Age Dramatic Adventure Game.