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Dave Wesely was a wargamer who was interested in exploring games with more than two sides. Inspired by STRATEGOS (which was inspired by Free Kriegspiel) he started running Braunstein games. These were a direct inspiration for Dave Arneson's Blackmoor games, which were the direct inspiration for Gygax's Greyhawk games. Blackmoor & Greyhawk spawned D&D.

On the invention of polyhedral dice:

Invention is not just having an idea, but actually making it work. Note that electric light bulbs were being made 20 years before Edison made his first bulb, but he is remembered because he made a bulb that gave enough light, lasted long enough, and was cheap enough to replace a gas lamp, while his predecessors made bulbs that basically worked the same way as his, but were too dim or too expensive.

(Where was this? On the Necromancer boards?) here?

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