Curse of the Azure Bonds

George MacDonald Interview – Matt Chat

The latest episode of Matt Barton’s Matt Chat show features George MacDonald who, back in the ’80s, designed the superhero Champions RPG and then went on to work at SSI and had a hand in designing such classics like Pool…

Dungeons & Dragons Gold Box Games Now Live on Steam

The Gold Box Classics bundle, originally scheduled for a March 25, 2022 release, is now available on Steam. The bundle consists of several “collections,” each featuring a number of highly-acclaimed Gold Box RPGs, including the Eye of the Beholder trilogy,…

Dungeons & Dragons Gold Box Games Coming to Steam

If you wouldn’t mind having a whole heap of Gold Box games in your Steam library, come March 25, 2022 you’ll be able to purchase a number of bundles on Valve’s digital store. These include the Krynn, Ravenloft and Dark…

Deadly Sins of CRPG Design

The Digital Antiquarian has editorialized about the “Deadly Sins of CRPG Design”, using a considerable number of examples from a variety of classic CRPGs to help illustrate their points. In addition to calling out well-known failures like rat-killing and impossible…

Opening the Gold Box, Part 5: All That Glitters is Not Gold

The advancements they made in Curse of the Azure Bonds, player reception to Secret of the Silver Blades, the major drop in sales figures for Pools of Darkness, the team’s foray into sci-fi role-playing with Buck Rogers, their collaboration with…

Why the Economy Sucks in the SSI Gold Box Games

In a lengthy editorial, The CRPG Addict provides an in-depth analysis of “why the economy sucks in the SSI Gold Box games”, with a focus on the lack of use for gold and other coinage in the RPG titles, the…

Thirteen Gold Box D&D Classics Released on GOG

The Gold Box games have always been one of the few blind spots in GOG’s impressive Dungeons & Dragons catalog of games until today. The folks at the retro-focused digital store have announced the release of 13 D&D-based Gold Box…

The Best RPGs of the 1980s Video

It’s really tough for me to swallow the idea of the original Wizardry, Might and Magic, or even the recently-talked-about Dragon Wars not ending up on a “Best RPGs of the 1980s” list, but considering that the list was confined…