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We owe Fallout's existence to an admiral and his officers teaching its designer to play D&D in 1979

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We owe Fallout's existence to an admiral and his officers teaching its designer to play D&D in 1979
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In a new video on his YouTube channel, RPG veteran and Fallout Designer Tim Cain talked about the first time he was ever exposed to Dungeons & Dragons, a pivotal influence on the developer: Some of his mother's coworkers showed him the ropes all the way back in the Carter administration. Oh, and they happened to be high-ranking US naval officers."If you started playing D&D on a computer, where there's no DM, the computer handles it all, … you don't have to learn how to run the rules," Cain said,

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