High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dungeons Dragons (abbreviated as D D or DnD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR). The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997. It was derived from miniature wargames with a variation of the Chainmail game serving as the initial rule system.D D`s publication is widely regarded as the beginning of modern role-playing games and the role-playing game industry.