As I recall, they came out sometime in the mid-to-late-80s. I think...not sure.
I don't think they were common before then because I remember rolling two d10s and all the game rules explaining rolling percentiles by reading two d10s. Then again, where I grew up (West Michigan), there was a...
I look at the obscene number of RPG rules on my digital shelf and think the answer is probably “no”.
In the early years of RPGs there was, of course, a great deal of experimentation as to how one might use dice and other randomisers to simulate, emulate or decide. That period of experimentation...
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A fun piece about Robert Coover's cult novel The Universal Baseball Association Inc., baseball and tangently but interestingly D&D.
Include some good insights into the relationship between the GM and the players, control, dice and randomness in RPGs I think.
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