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101 From creating D&D to making Baldur's Gate 3: meet the man who coined the term XP

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Robert Purchese @ Eurogamer.net · 05/05/2024 05:00 EDT

From creating D&D to making Baldur's Gate 3: meet the man who coined the term XP

"Role-playing games are only 50 years old. We're still inventing them every day. That's what's really exciting about it. We haven't found the boundaries of it yet, if there are any. We're still pushing out. That's what keeps me doing this stuff, years after most of my peers have retired or passed on."Do you believe in fate, that there's an invisible force steering us through our lives and that we end up in certain places for certain reasons? Perhaps after hearing Lawrence Schick's story, you will.It's not a

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