So, there’s this discussion on Twitter …

There’s been an ongoing debate about the role of women in gaming for years…today on Twitter, someone thoughtfully posted these two contributions, one from Gary Gygax, the co-author of Dungeons & Dragons, and another from Jonathon Tweet, a later contributor…

Welcome to the DragonQuest Frontiers!

This website is dedicated to the Role-Playing Game Known as DragonQuest (DQ), and originally published by SPI, Inc. In my opinion, DQ was (and remains) one of the premier fantasy RPGs ever developed. Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) was an American publisher of board wargames and related…

Online gaming platforms

Since the lockdown began, I’ve been looking at some of the online RPG platforms – DnDBeyond, Dungeons & Dragons Online, Fantasy Ground, and a few others. The thing that aggravates me the most about all of these sites, is that…

Video killed Playing Board Games?

(with advance apologies to Songwriters: Geoffrey Downes / Trevor Charles Horn / Bruce Woolley and The Buggles for repurposing their song) Video games have certainly become a part of our cultural egregore since the release of “Periscope” by Sega in…