With the help of the printing press, Luther’s writings spread far and fast: between 1517 and 1520, more than three hundred thousand copies of his books, pamphlets and broadsides were distributed. He and other thinkers, most famously John Calvin, disagreed on much, but eventually a new form of Christian game, for ‘Protestants’, came into being. It had a revised set of rules and symbols, one fit for the success-focussed player of town, university, guild and marketplace.
