dungeons and dragons

We’re finally here, sort of. Some of you may remember my original article on TTRPG history, (behold) but you don’t really need to have read that one to follow this, but it’ll give some background context of course. There is one important and essential thing about that article, however; at the...

I remember the first time I became aware of the existence of the whole Dungeons and Dragons concept. One of my uncles was a bit of a nerd and had a bunch of cool stuff in his library. Star Wars novels, Star Trek memorabilia, sketches, fan art of fantasy characters, you name it. A smorgasbord of...

I know, here we go again, another D&D game. I have a type, what can I say? I’ll be hard at work playing something else, then suddenly I come to, huddled in a dark room, playing Neverwinter Nights or Dark Alliance without even realizing it. Also, I do play more tabletop RPG’s than just D&D, just...

Did you know that Japan used to be obsessed with Dungeons and Dragons in the mid 80’s through to about the 2000’s? Well, now you do. The now household pop culture behemoth officially came to Japan in 1985 with the translation of the ‘Basic Set’, also known as the ‘red box’, brought into the...