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From creating D&D to making Baldur's Gate 3: meet the man who coined the term XP
"Role-playing games are only 50 years old. We're still inventing them every day. That's what's really exciting about it…
"And it was while I was editing his manuscript for the first Dungeon Master's Guide that I realised that we needed an abbreviation for experience points," Schick tells me now, in a Zoom call from an appropriately book-bedecked room of his house. | Image credit: Lawrence Schick That passion combined with a love of role-playing games led him to live action RPGs, or LARPs, which are something I got a taste of when I went to Witcher School in Poland some years back. It's why you see so many pictures of him dressed like a Musketeer on the internet, rapier slung casually over a shoulder, long white hair swept back, moustache and beard as pointed as the blade he carries.
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