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"A dozen or so of my wargaming associated around the USA for their play-testing and feedback. The reception was overwhelming and all positive. In the spring of 1973 I revised the material to 150 page length - essentially what was printed as the D&D games three rules booklets in January 1974. This draft of the game was sent out to about 30 people and the reaction was so intense that I was sure we had a winning game. As an aside, at that point I thought we would sell at least 50,000 copies to wargamers and fantasy fans. I underestimated the audience a little. It wasnt until the middle of 1975 that the true scope of the appeal of the Dungeons & Dragons game was understood by me. As to how I conceived and wrote the game in the first place, that would take many pages to explain, so I wont go into it other than to say it was the culmination of more than 30 years of living and doing that enabled the process."
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