PLAYING AT THE WORLD 2E VOLUME 1: THE INVENTION OF DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS BY JON PETERSON Party Games electricity and first skyscrapers electricity and first skyscrapers No one knows what we were running from Playing at the World explores the origins of wargames and roleplaying through the history of conflict simulations and the eccentric characters who drove the creation of a signature cultural innovation in the late twentieth century Jon Peterson distills the story of how the wargaming clubs and fanzines circulating around the upper Midwest in the 1970s culminated in Gary Gygax and Dave Arnesons seminal role playing game