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April 23, 2022 12:44 pm GMT
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Roleplaying game pioneer M.A.R. Barker was an anti-Semite and Nazi sympathizer
For roleplaying gamers there are fewer "holy grail" games than M.A.R. Barker's 1974 now-rare Tkumel: Empire of the Petal Throne. Barker's complex, linguistically-inspired fantasy world was often compared to J.R.R. Tolkien's (Barker was also a linguist). Barker is often included in the same reverent breath as D&D creators Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson as one of the fathers of RPGs. — Read the rest
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