Description:
Roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons, in which players take the roles of heroes in their own story, have solidly moved from the geek fringes to the mainstream, beloved by celebrities and inspiring hit podcasts and massively successful sales in games, comics, and hobby shops.
The story of the tabletop's triumph even in our digital age begins in the day of actual sword-wielding warriors, leading right up to the fireball-casting avatars of today. In Gamemasters: The Comic Book History of Roleplaying Games, New York Times-bestselling and award-winning comics creators Fred Van Lente and Tom Fowler take you on an incredible journey from the mists of the past to the screen-lit present, showing not just how these games work and why we love them, but what they can tell us about ourselves.
Brief description: Bill Crabtree has been working in comics since 2003. His color art has helped shape the look and feel of the many titles he's worked on, including Invincible, The Damned, BRZRKR, The Sixth Gun (also now a tabletop RPG using the Savage Worlds system) and the RPG themed webcomic, Table Titans. His work has been nominated for Harvey and Eisner Awards. He is an avid videogamer, with a particular affection for the RPG's of From Software. He lives in Portland Oregon with his wife and many children, cats, and dogs.
Review Quotes: "When researching DIE, I read the vast majority of the existent histories of the RPG. What Van Lente and Fowler have done here is in the first rank of them, absolutely the most accessible and certainly the funniest. I'm actively envious."-- Kieron Gillen, Die, The Wicked + the Divine, Young Avengers--Kieron Gillen