Knowledge History D&D - Episode 1: The Prehistory to D&D (500 - 1950)

About this Episode

This episode, Erik starts a new series called "Knowledge - History - D&D". A chronological review of how Dungeons & Dragons came into being.
We'll start by releasing episodes every other week.
This first episode starts with the prehistory of D&D from 500 AD to 1950.

Since this episode involved a lot of research, I wanted to share all my sources and give credit where credit is due. So, here is my big thick bibliography. It wouldn't pass muster in a college level class, but you trust my sources are legit, right?
I also highly recommend the following books:
Empire of Imagination by Michael Witwer
Of Dice And Men by David M. Ewalt

• Chaturanga http://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/chaturanga.html https://www.chess.com/blog/Shadow_47/chaturangahellipthe-lost-game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturanga
• Chess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess
• Kriegsspiel Developed in 1812 by Lieutenant Georg Leopold von Reiswitz and his son Georg Heinrich Rudolf von Reiswitz of the Prussian Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel_(wargame) https://web.archive.org/web/20090710224303/http://www.boardgamestudies.info/pdf/issue3/BGS3Hilgers.pdf (see page 63 or so) https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16957/kriegsspiel
• Little Wars: http://www.thortrains.net/downloads/litwars.pdf
• Napoleonic Miniature War Gaming: http://www.wargamer.com/articles/an-introduction-to-napoleonic-miniature-wargaming/
• History of the War Gaming Hobby: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~beattie/timeline2.html
• Jack Scrubby: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Scruby War Gaming Digest (1957-1963)

Music is used under the creative commons license.
"Raga Bageshri" by Ashok Pathak (used during Part 1)
"Pierre" by Hicham Chahidi (used during Part 2)
"Tendresse" by Hicham Chahidi (used during Part 3)

Intro and Outro music written by Erik Dewhurst