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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Dropout’s Dungeons & Dragons actual play show, Dimension 20, is getting pretty close to selling out a 19,000-seat venue just hours after ticket sales opened to the general public. To the uninitia… Continue reading A D&D Actual Play Show Is Going To Sell Out Madison Square Garden
Today saw the end of IFComp.org’s 29th annual text adventure competition (now administered by the charitable non-profit IF Technology Foundation). 74 new and original text adventures
competed for a share of the $7,523 prize pool, with the winners anno… Continue reading Text Adventures are Still Thriving in Interactive Fiction Competition – and On Threads
Slashdot reader Mononymous writes: Back in 2019, digital archivist Jason Scott released the source code to Infocom’s classic text adventures. Now the other piece of the puzzle is available: the source code (mostly in assembly, with some C and Pascal) t… Continue reading Source Code To Infocom’s Text Adventure Interpreters Now Available
71-year-old Mark Evanier is a legendary comic book/TV writer. Today he posted on his personal blog that “Forty years ago, I spent about six days (cumulative) of my life writing the pilot script and small-b bible for a Saturday morning cartoon series ca… Continue reading It’s the 40th Anniversary of 1983’s ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Cartoon
In the 1980s, [Stephen] was working on his own RPG for the Commodore 64, inspired by dungeon crawlers of the era like Ultima IV and Telengard, both some of his …read more Continue reading Well Documented Code Helps Revive Decades-Old Commodore Project
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Over the past month, classified Pentagon documents have circulated on 4chan, Telegram, and various Discord servers. The documents contain daily intelligence briefings, sensitive information about Uk… Continue reading Leaked Classified Documents Also Include Roleplaying Game Character Stats
An anonymous reader shares a report from PC Gamer:
In a blog post published Friday, Wizards of the Coast announced that it is fully putting the kibosh on the proposed Open Gaming License (OGL) 1.2 that threw the tabletop RPG community into disarray at… Continue reading D&D Won’t Change Its Original 1.0 OGL License, Reference Document Enters Creative Commons
Blizzard will suspend games in China because it can’t reach an agreement with its licensing and publishing partner NetEase, it said in a press release. World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Overwatch 2, Starcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Diablo III, and Warcraf… Continue reading Blizzard Will Suspend World of Warcraft In China Because of Licensing Dispute
A new draft of the Dungeons & Dragons Open Gaming License, dubbed OGL 1.2 by publisher Wizards of the Coast, is now available for download. Polygon reports: The announcement was made Thursday by Kyle Brink, executive producer of D&D, on the D&a… Continue reading D&D Will Move To a Creative Commons License, Requests Feedback On a New OGL
Following controversial changes to Dungeons & Dragons’ decades-old Open Gaming License (OGL), “many prominent third-party RPG publishers now say they’re abandoning the OGL, regardless of what changes [publisher Wizards of the Coast (WotC)] official… Continue reading Game Makers Stage Mass Exodus From Dungeons & Dragons’ ‘Open’ License