Dicing with Dragons
1982
First Published
3.66
Average Rating
216
Number of Pages
Explains how role-playing games are played, looks at four of the most popular commercial games, and tells how to create one's own games
Avg Rating
3.66
Number of Ratings
47
5 STARS
23%
4 STARS
30%
3 STARS
36%
2 STARS
11%
1 STARS
0%
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Author
Ian Livingstone
Author · 25 books
Ian Livingstone has been in the interactive games industry for over 25 years. In the 1970s, he co-founded Games Workshop and launched Dungeons & Dragons in Europe, later editing White Dwarf magazine. In 1982, with Steve Jackson, he wrote the first of the Fighting Fantasy™ Gamebooks which eventually sold over 15 million copies in 23 languages. In 1995 he led the merger of computer games company Domark with Eidos, the name behind the Tomb Raider computer games, where he is now Creative Director. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Technology by the University of Abertay Dundee in 2000, and in 2002 received the BAFTA Special Award for his outstanding contribution to the interactive entertainment industry.
