I’ve never been much for roleplaying. Well, let me rephrase that: I’ve never been much for playing the roles assigned to me. When ...

There are conventions in media we become perfectly used to, despite their having no place in reality. If we watch a movie, and ...

The year: 1999. The game: Ultima Online. The place: Moonglow Lycaeum. The event: A lecture, designed to provide some information related to a ...

CRPGs aren’t RPGs. I’m a snob about this, always have been. To me, Knights of the Old Republic was a complex adventure game ...

About half of the women you see in World of Warcraft are actually played by men. Nick Yee’s Daedalus Project came up with ...

They’d gamed together before, this group. I’d never met them until that night. They were veteran tabletop roleplayers, passionate about their characters and ...

I’m a big fan of my troll Rogue in World of Warcraft. He’s good at ambushing his enemies, and he hits hard. I ...