After a pretty lackluster literary performance, WAR seems to have hit a pleasing note in terms of the literature backing it up. Dark Storm Gathering, sequel to Empire in Chaos, made a lot of really interesting fixes that made the story a lot more compelling. Also, as an added gift, it’s written in a way where you don’t lose much if you pick this up without reading Empire in Chaos.

Wizards of the Coast announced the fourth edition of the pencil and paper roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons yesterday, August 16, 2007 at GenCon.

based on fantasy literature, Dungeons and Dragons, or D&D, has nfluenced huge swaths of videogame canon, including arguably the entire RPG genre. Wizards of the Coast routinely licenses out the D&D brand for a variety of console and PC games.

The core of Dungeons and Dragons is three manuals, to be …