(on Wikipedia)
https://dnd.wizards.com/
In many people's minds, Dungeons and Dragons was largely responsible for the greater popularization of roleplaying.
It has a long history in the limelight to be sure, but a great many gamers have mixed feelings or outright hostility to the rampant commercialization and lack of dedication to the spirit of roleplaying which much of the D&D franchise has shown.
- aka D&D
Alignment was something first brought to public light through D&D. It was a well-meaning idea, but in practice it is at best generally useless to creative gamers and at worst a terrible and fun-damaging hurdle. See Playing in character, and the problem of alignment.
The history of things I've played ∞
I briefly played with one of the Basic D&Ds but nothing significant.
- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition -- (TSR)
- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition -- (TSR)
- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition -- (Wizards of the Coast)
- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 edition -- (Wizards of the Coast)
- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition -- (Hasbro)
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AD&D 5e[doesn't exist] -- (Hasbro)
Stuff ∞
- the Complete Dungeons & Dragons Product List
- Literary Sources of D&D, Compiled by Aardy R. DeVarque
- What's Wrong With AD&D?
- REC.GAMES.FRP.DND FAQ, Compiled by Joel Hahn
Though this has technically been ported, there is a spiderweb of other related topics which have not been.