Tales of Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation is one of the better Dungeons & Dragons titles in recent history (which isn’t saying much, I know, but still…). Unfortunately, it’s about to be delisted from Steam. Fortunately, I was here to remind you all to go grab it before it’s gone. The…
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Once upon a time, before BioWare announced itself to the world with Baldur’s Gate, and long before Atari got the rights to Dungeons & Dragons and then all but buried the iconic property (in terms of video games, at least), there was a company called SSI. SSI was perhaps better…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. With over 30 books in print starring Drizzt Do’Urden and his companions, you would think that there’s plenty of material to turn into a compelling RPG. After all, while R.A Salvatore’s novels are pulp fantasy in every sense of the term, so too are The Witcher…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. I’ve been reading Drizzt Do ‘Urden novels in the Dungeons & Dragons universe for over 25 years now. He and his crew are some of my favourite fantasy characters of all time. To this day when I play D & D my characters will generally use…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Two of the greatest western RPGs of all time, released on console for the first time, is not something that should be overlooked. Certainly some people will look at the “dated” presentation of these titles and turn away, but doing that would be missing the point…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Dungeons & Dragons is the biggest name in tabletop gaming, ever. There’s nothing quite like sitting around a table playing the game with friends, and there’s such a depth of fantasy, magic, amazing settings and gameplay mechanics that it should be a no-brainer that the tabletop…
Read MoreRetro reflections by Matt S. Back when Dungeons & Dragons was being managed by TSR, the company experimented with a massive range of “settings.” These settings took the basic medieval fantasy of Dungeons & Dragons, and twisted it to fit with other kinds of fantasy. There was the high magic…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. (Not really, I do love you all) Over the weekend I discovered that a whole bunch of my favourite Dungeons & Dragons games from yesteryear had been released on GOG. We’re talking old games here; the kind you need DOSBOX to run, and developed and published…
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