Eye of the Beholder III

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…

GB Feature: Eye of the Beholder III Content Overload

It’s time to complete your spoiler-laden journey through SSI and Westwood’s classic Eye of the Beholder series, as we have just launched our dedicated subsite for Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor. Just as we have provided…

Eye of the Beholder Trilogy Giveaway and D&D Sale

With this year’s D&D Live event upon us, the folks over at GOG.com are running a special D&D-themed sale, during which you can pick up a good number of heavily discounted RPGs. On top of that, if you act before…

Life on the Grid – The Digital Antiquarian

The latest entry in The Digital Antiquarian blog is dedicated to a number of real-time grid-based dungeon crawlers that followed FTL Games’ Dungeon Master, which pioneered that particular sub-genre of RPGs back in 1987. The article covers both well-known and…

Richard Cobbett on Old RPG Reviews

Richard Cobbett seems to be done with RPG Scrollbars for the foreseeable future. No more weekly arachnophobic and crafting-hating RPG editorials for us, I guess. So, what’s the topic of the final edition of the long-running Rock, Paper, Shotgun column?…

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…

Some Little Things to Love in RPGs, Part One

Richard Cobbett’s latest contribution to Rock, Paper, Shotgun isn’t one of his usual editorials, but instead a gallery that attempts to point out some interesting and often overlooked aspects of RPGs he’s played throughout the years. We’re not necessarily talking…