PC Gaming Week: Why Dungeons & Dragons quickly became my PC game to beat

By Joe Osborne

D&D rules dude

You probably haven’t noticed yet, but there’s a PC gaming revolution taking place right under your nose – and no, it’s not virtual reality. Oddly enough, it’s Dungeons & Dragons.

Yep, that 40-year-old tabletop – i.e. a physical table in the real world – game that was once thought to be devil worship at worst and more like taxes than a game at best. D&D has always been there, enduring the Reagan era and Y2K, no less.

D&D has pervaded every corner of gamer culture short of eSports – from informing arguably every role-playing video game (RPG) to date to inspiring a score of its own. (Surely, you know the words “Baldur’s Gate?”)

When you put it that way, it’s funny that only the past few years has seen the game itself adapted for the platform where the very digital RPGs that it had inspired began: the PC. And it’s the best thing to happen to PC gaming since the massively multiplayer online game (MMO) phenomenon.

For one, it can be 100% free

Now, don’t worry, you weren’t buried under a rock for a few years: Wizards of the Coast (publisher …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming