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, contrasting his experience of learning D&D from first principles with how the game now informs so many assumptions about gaming and role playing.
Cain's mother worked at a Judge Advocate General (JAG) office, a division of the US military dedicated to legal affairs. "She came home one day and said, 'The boys at work are playing a game, we've been invited over this weekend to play,'" Cain recalled. The "boys," as Cain's mother put it, "were some captains, I think one admiral in the Navy," according to the developer. "We drove over on a Saturday and spent I think four to five hours at their house."
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