THE BIRTH OF DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: “On the pop-culture Richter scale, Gary Gygax deserves a place alongside Walt Disney and Steve Jobs, says Michael Witwer, author of Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons and Dragons. In other words, Gygax was a 12th-level genius,” says John J. Miller in his ten minute “Bookmonger” podcast interview with Witwer at Ricochet.

Full disclosure/confession of my misspent teenage years: I played a little D&D at school, but once I discovered the Traveller RPG set in the far future, I was quite happy to immerse myself in that gaming universe.