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Podcast: Fascinating Nouns
Episode: Ep. 259: The Knight Who Started a Role-playing Revolution
Description: Sir Ian Livingstone is a real knight, known as the âKnight of the Nerdsâ. Never has a moniker been more apt. Ian and his partner Steve Jackson were early fanatics of various complex strategy games. They turned this love into a paradigm changing company called âGames Workshopâ. Thanks to an exclusive deal with Dungeons & Dragons creator Gary Gygax, Games Workshop quickly became an industry leader in role-playing games. They sold D&D, had their own miniatures company, published the industry leading gamer magazine âWhite Dwarfâ, and even developed their own games, which included an early version of Towerblox, which was about 2 years...