First role-playing game (RPG)

First role-playing game (RPG)
Who
dnd
What
first
Where
United States (Illinois)
When
1974
The first computer-based RPG was dnd, an entirely text-based game based on Dungeons & Dragons (hence dnd) that was developed at Southern Illinois University, USA, in 1974. GWR Video Gamer's Edition 2008.