How 'Dungeons' changed the world

Boston Globe

How 'Dungeons' changed the world

FOR A WHILE, it seemed, I was part of a generation with no discernable qualities, no great contribution to American culture. Too young to be boomers, too old to be "Gen X," this generation was a product of the burned out excess of the seventies married to the surface glow of the eighties. But here in 2004, I realize I belong to the luckiest generation, and not only that, I am part of the luckiest sub-culture within. Maybe we didn't give the world the Beatles or John Updike, but we gave the world Dungeons and Dragons....

A nice piece from the Globe. We spent our time reading Vonnegut and Heinlein when we weren't pretending to be Elvis Costello or watching Kurosawa and Roger Corman flicks, so I never really got the bug, although one friend disappeared seemingly for weeks at a time. But the mythology? Still makes perfect sense.