Jon Peterson

Well well, there’s a blast from the past

Hi, excuse the Twitter screen name, but this is Kay (Jones) Shapero here, having just read the article. BTW — that verse was but one from a filksong created by a number of gamers called “The Dungeoneer’s Song” (to the tune of “The Engineers’ Song” from MIT)…

An interesting article. Though I believe that since the advent of D&D in the middle 70s, at least, women gamers have been under-reported. Elise and Heidi Gygax, for instance, were early players of D&D (though Gary may not have mentioned them from the start, since they were family), and I actually took up the game in 1977 to get closer to a girl who…

You Might Want to Look at the RPGA

The second-ranked player of classic RPGA network role-playing tournaments for the better part of the years 1985 to 2000 was Linda M. Bingle and, of course, the RPGA coordinator for a good long stretch of that period was Jean Rabe. Cheryl Frech ran RPGA Headquarters at…

In nerdhaven

This one is for the comic book readers, the D&D players, the gatherers-of-Magic.