EXPLAINED: Gary gygax - The Real Truth

D&D is quintessentially American and Warhammer is quintessentially British

D&D is Vincent Price in The Raven, Warhammer is Vincent Price in Witchfinder General.

PC Gamer · Aug 10, 2025

Dungeons & Defamation

A new libel complaint in Clark v. Gygax (that would be Gary Gygax's son Luke Gygax), over a failed Kickstarter related to… The post Dungeons & Defamation appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason · Jul 16, 2025

A Knight’s War review – smiting, flaying and lopping of limbs as sword’n’sorcery caper aims high

Atmospheric fantasy sees paladin Bhodie enter a cursed realm and die on repeat to rescue a red-haired maiden

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2025

Baldur's Gate 3's principal narrative designer is also the man who decades ago coined the D&D term 'XP' in "like 20 minutes on a Thursday afternoon"

"It just became the global standard"

GamesRadar · May 6, 2024

Dungeons & Dragons at 50: You Can't Copyright Fun

How lax intellectual property rules created a nerd culture phenomenon

Reason · Apr 29, 2024

Dungeons & Dragons at 50: the collaborative fantasy role-playing game that builds you up

Once the centre of fear campaigns, the classic tabletop experience is now more popular than ever – and even Australian educators are rolling with it

The Guardian - AU · Mar 9, 2024

Dungeons & Dragons at 50: how D&D changed everything

Dungeons & Dragons would give designers the tools they needed to create the systems that underpin modern gaming.

TechRadar · Feb 15, 2024

Final Fantasy 14 is living proof that ‘JRPG’ is an outdated term

Speaking with Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida, it’s clear that so-called ‘JRPGs’ are part of a much broader gaming ecosystem.

TechRadar · Nov 2, 2023

Fallout co-creator unearths his 20-year-old pitch for Baldur's Gate 3: a first-person action RPG with PvPvE multiplayer

Wizards of the Coast was apparently not down with Troika's vison for Baldur's Gate 3.

PC Gamer · Jul 14, 2023

Building D&D settings is so much less stressful with these brilliantly clever tabletop games

From city builders and culture propagators, to timeline generators, there's a wealth of worldbuilding games to help you flesh out your D&D homebrew campaign worlds.

PC Gamer · Jun 8, 2023