Fallout Creator Reveals Hilarious Response He Got From D&D's Creators
Tim Cain, the creator of Fallout, shared a funny story from his youth about contacting the minds behind Dungeons & Dragons. As a teenager, Cain and his friends wrote to them with a list of questions about the game’s rules.
Back then, the rules for Dungeons & Dragons were far less clear than they are today. Early editions often contained contradictions, unexplained terms, and straightforward mistakes, leaving many players puzzled. Cain was one of them.
Years later, Cain would become known for creating Fallout and working on a Dungeons & Dragons-based PC game, The Temple of Elemental Evil, while at Troika Games.
The Letter and the Questions
In a recent video posted on his YouTube channel, Timothy Cain revisited that moment by reading the original letter he and his friends sent to the D&D creators. It contained thirty questions about the game’s rules, focused on Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (the second edition used in the classic Baldur’s Gate titles).
- How undead creatures interact with vorpal swords.
- What occurs when a character’s prime requisite stat decreases.
- The extent of a leprechaun’s polymorph powers.
“We sent thirty detailed questions, trying to understand all the strange rules we couldn’t figure out,” Cain recounted with amusement.
Author’s Summary
Tim Cain nostalgically recalls sending rule questions to D&D’s makers as a teen, revealing the humor and confusion of early tabletop gaming.