{"id":334,"date":"2012-11-23T13:27:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T21:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com\/minions-of-the-fickle-muse\/?p=334"},"modified":"2012-11-23T13:27:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T21:27:57","slug":"dungeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com\/minions-of-the-fickle-muse\/2012\/11\/23\/dungeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dungeon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wizards of the Coast recently reprinted the old <em>Dungeon!<\/em> boardgame (for it's... fifth?... incarnation). And now they've put up an interview with the designer, David Megarry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizards.com\/DnD\/Article.aspx?x=dnd\/4alum\/2012Oct2#82941\">An Interview with David R. Megarry<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, I think we played it three or four times but then the prototype went to Gary Gygax in Lake Geneva. I invented <em>Dungeon!<\/em> in October, 1972 and visited Gary (with David Arneson) in December, 1972. Gary liked the game a lot and was willing to try to peddle it to [Don] Lowry [of <em>Guidon Games<\/em>, the original publisher of <em>Chainmail<\/em>]. I left the prototype with him at that point. I had not made a copy of anything, so this was a very trusting activity. Ultimately I got the board back and the cards but the hand drawn rule booklet was lost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It's nice to see the story from the other side of my dad's porch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wizards of the Coast recently reprinted the old Dungeon! boardgame (for it&#8217;s&#8230; fifth?&#8230; incarnation). And now they&#8217;ve put up an interview with the designer, David Megarry. An Interview with David R. Megarry Well, I think we played it three or[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com\/minions-of-the-fickle-muse\/2012\/11\/23\/dungeon\/\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59,29],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boardgames","category-games","tag-dungeon","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-rindis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2Q9Tp-dungeon","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com\/minions-of-the-fickle-muse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com\/minions-of-the-fickle-muse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com\/minions-of-the-fickle-muse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com\/minions-of-the-fickle-muse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com\/minions-of-the-fickle-muse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com\/minions-of-the-fickle-muse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com\/minions-of-the-fickle-muse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com\/minions-of-the-fickle-muse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com\/minions-of-the-fickle-muse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com\/minions-of-the-fickle-muse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}