Gamemasters: The Comic Book History of Roleplaying Games (Hardcover)

(W) Fred Van Lente (A/CA) Tom Fowler. Roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons* in which players take the roles of heroes in their own story* have solidly moved from the geek fringes to the mainstream* beloved by celebrities and inspiring hit podcasts and massively successful sales in games* comics* and hobby shops. The story of the tabletop's triumph even in our digital age begins in the day of actual sword-wielding warriors* leading right up to the fireball-casting avatars of today. In Gamemasters: The Comic Book History of Roleplaying Games* New York Times-bestselling and award-winning comics creators Fred Van Lente and Tom Fowler take you on an incredible journey from the mists of the past to the screen-lit present* showing not just how these games work and why we love them* but what they can tell us about ourselves.