Several years back, after getting out of the service, I tried to reunite with my old gaming buddies via PBEM. It started out OK and quickly fell apart. What follows are the three narratives that evolved from that experiment. Each one is written from the point of view of that character.Dren is a Pure Strain…
Tag: Role Playing Games
Why They Call it a Crawl
In the gaming world a “Dungeon Crawl” is used to refer to any game that has a core focus of going into a dungeon setting, fighting monsters and taking loot back the city to buy stuff with. After buying the new (and hopefully better) stuff you go back and crawl around in the dungeon some…
Gaming From the Past: Pool of Radiance
Back in 1988 SSI released the first in a series of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons computer games. Pool of Radiance was the first of these games and it is the one I’m going to talk about today.It all started in 1985 when TSR saw the success of the Ultima series of computer games and decided…