Chapter 4: Is the TRPG plan going to be aborted?

  Time entered October, and the first part of "Harry Potter", "Philosopher's Stone" was officially released, but sales were not very good, only barely passable.

  Catherine was not in a hurry, although the Harry Potter series had been suspected of being hyped up in history, but there was nothing that could be hyped up, and since its publication in 1997, the Harry Potter series has swept the world, how long did it take?

  At least until the second and third books are published, this book may slowly become popular.

  Moreover, times have changed. The United States in 1960 had aesthetic views that were somewhat different from those of the 21st century. Although Catherine modified some of the plot to conform to the times and revised certain parts of the original text that made her feel uncomfortable or awkward, it's still a question whether it can be popular.

  So, in an era without even electronic games, what could a 12-year-old girl possibly do to earn money?

  Petroleum?

  That's right, it's indeed profitable, but if you do a little, you won't make money, and if you do a lot... then just wait to be "bankrupted".

  Singing?

  She has a good voice and sings well, but her past self was tone deaf and couldn't even read sheet music. She had no idea what would be popular in the future. However, she was familiar with some melodies, such as "The Soviet March" and "Chinese Soul", but when she sang these songs... it was just a headache.

  "Alas, if only there were computers in this era." Catherine couldn't help but sigh.

  Catherine finally joined the gymnastics club and after training was over, she returned to her dormitory.

  "Hurray!"

  As soon as she entered the house, she heard Lily's joyful shouting.

  Another look, two girls in the neighboring dormitory are in their own dormitory, with things written in front of them.

  "What are you doing?"

  "Play Monopoly."

  Catherine nodded.

  Parker Brothers released Monopoly on November 5, 1935. Later, the rights to the game were acquired by Hasbro, which also produced Transformers.

  Catherine took off her outer garment and then pounced onto the bed all at once.

  "Kate, I think you'd better change your clothes and take a bath."

  "Uh, I'll take a break first."

  Catherine was wearing her training gymnastics uniform inside. At home, she often didn't bother to change clothes and sometimes used the gymnastics uniform as pajamas.

  Although Catherine would feel uncomfortable and want to take a bath once she sweats or gets dirty, perhaps due to her physical constitution, she rarely sweats, so most of the time, she lazily lies in bed.

  "Huh? Tycoon?!"

  Catherine stared at the chessboard on the table and suddenly thought of something.

  A game.

  To be precise, it should be a game that is the ancestor of most later games - Dungeons & Dragons, abbreviated as DND.

  This is a desktop game, similar to Monopoly. For a period of time afterwards, the vast majority of computer games were based on this background, such as "Winter Castle", and more famously "World of Warcraft", although the latter only borrowed from it, but still demonstrates its influence.

  The appearance of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy was the catalyst for the birth of the famous Dungeons & Dragons rules, but it took ten years to gestate before they officially appeared in front of people.

  Why don't you take this road yourself?

  Catherine jumped out of bed at once, her face full of excitement.

  At this time, the girl next door also returned, leaving only Lily and Catherine.

  "Kate, I found you sometimes really are like a little kid."

  Lily stood in front of Catherine with her hands on her hips.

  What joke? My mental age is much older than yours!

  It seemed that she had noticed Catherine's "disdainful" expression, or perhaps Lily felt that Catherine really needed to be educated. She spoke up: "Kate, girls can't be so casual. Look at you, not even wearing underwear, what if someone sees it?"

  "Wearing underwear is uncomfortable and going to the toilet is also inconvenient."

  Catherine is wearing crotchless pantyhose with her underwear on the outside.

  The original purpose of inventing these tights was to make it easier for girls to urinate, first wear these tights and then wear underwear. This way, you don't have to take off and put on the tights back and forth, so it's also very convenient for young children to wear. Moreover, girls have long fingernails, which can easily tear the stockings during the process of taking them off and putting them on.

  However, Catherine found it more convenient to wear the leotard as underwear when changing into her gym clothes - after all, the crotch of the practice uniform was very wide - which is why Lily said what she did.

  And also when dancing and training, Catherine really felt that wearing underwear would be very uncomfortable.

  Of course, except at this time, she usually wouldn't forget her underwear either. After all, she didn't want to play any "naked" games, although it looked like fun, but she wasn't in the mood now, probably because of underdevelopment.

  The way you see your heart is the way you see the world, who said that anyway, but Catherine thought it was pretty good.

  "Hmm...this is convenient." She lay comfortably in bed.

  "Girls should be dignified!" Lili was about to say something, but she suddenly looked at Catherine thoughtfully, thought for a moment, and then picked up the camera on the table.

  "Crack."

  The flashbulb flashed again.

  "Huh?" Catherine turned around, but saw Lily's ambiguous smile.

  "That pose just now was too cute."

  "Never mind that for now, Lily. I've found a fun way."

  Catherine wasn't sure if the rules of Dungeons & Dragons would be liked by people today. After all, the historical D&D rules were created after the hippie movement, and it's hard to say whether they wouldn't have been influenced by hippies.

  However, TRPG has a long history in Europe and America. Even if DND is unpopular, you can come up with a more suitable rule yourself.

  After all, although there are TRPGs, yet there isn't a single one like DND that is so detailed and simulates an entire fantasy world.

  She roughly explained the rules of this game to Lily in a nutshell.

  The core of DND rules is dice, and everything is determined by the dice.

  "It feels pretty good, but it seems like a bit of trouble."

  Lily hit the nail on the head.

  That's right, if according to the original DND rules, it is indeed a bit cumbersome.

  After all, what Catherine knew was the later third version of Dungeons & Dragons, and before that, there were the first and second versions, which, although not very famous, brought opportunities for the development of D&D.

  Isn't it possible?

  Catherine was taken aback for a moment.

  Indeed, this era is rampant with anti-intellectualism, and a common saying can illustrate this point.

  "You can be wildly overconfident in your estimate of American intelligence and still get away with it!"

  Catherine now feels that she should probably go ahead and underestimate Americans' IQ indefinitely... probably.