Today, "leveling up" is a central feature of countless video games, from sprawling open-world RPGs to mobile idle clickers. As any...

Dragon magazine is, of course, most remembered for its many excellent articles published over the course of the three decades of its existen...

Last week , I mentioned a computer program called TravGen that I used to have and lost in the process of upgrading my computer. After poking...

Did anyone own this game? I ask, because I very vividly remember the advertisements for it, like this one that appeared in issue #69 of Drag...

Regular readers will recall that, growing up, I did not have a personal computer. That's why I spent so much time at the homes of friend...

Another piece of Will McLean's Wizardry artwork featuring the bishop (and the Lord).

In a comment to my earlier post about level titles beyond Dungeons & Dragons ,  Tamás Illés  pointed out that the later installments of...

Following up on yesterday's post about the "Appendix N" of Temple of Apshai , let's look at the paragraphs that follow, b...

Here's the opening paragraph to introduction of the user manual from 1979's Temple of Apshai . This section was reprinted verbatim i...

When I was in the seventh grade, a new kid joined my class and he soon became my best friend. He was also an early adopter of personal compu...

Later this week, I'll be posting a Retrospective on the early dungeoncrawler Temple of Apshai . While doing some research into this imp...

Back at the start of April, I wrote about my inability to replay the old  AD&D computer game, Pool of Radiance . The difficulty lay prim...

Despite my preference for playing RPGs with a group of friends, I've long enjoyed video and computer games. In fact, over the past Chris...

Issue #66 of White Dwarf (June 1985) is once again graced by a Chris Achilleos cover illustration. I've always been very fond of his art...

Issue #60 of White Dwarf  magazine  includes reviews of three Games Workshop computer games: Battlecars, D-Day, and Tower of Despair. Becaus...

It's relatively rare to see a news story in the mainstream media that touches upon one of my interests. Consequently, I was surprised th...

My late childhood and early teen years coincided not just with the ascent of fantasy and science fiction in popular media but with the (like...

One of the many disadvantages of living in the aftermath of any kind of revolution is failing to appreciate fully just how remarkable were t...