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The Women Who Shaped Early D&D

Dungeons & Dragons Wouldn’t Be What It Is Today Without These Women
Almost every copy of the first Dungeons & Dragons adventure written by a woman is buried in a landfill in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

“I’d never written fiction. But I was so mad—Don’t tell me I can’t do something—so I did it.”

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