When I got out to California the first thing I did was look for outdoors things to do. The hiking in the bay area is amazing and it didn’t take me too long to find the site, Redwood Hikes. After my solo quest in Big Basin I knew I wanted to tackle the Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail. Of course being me, I wasn’t going to take 3 days to do it or take the shorter route.
I could not help feeling that they were evil things — mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.
So I did it. I said yes after a month of wrangling and now I write this from a one bedroom apartment in Sunnyvale California. It still isn’t real to me, feeling more like a business trip than a relocation. This going to take some getting used to.
The Strategic Review was first published in 1975 when roleplaying was really just another form of wargaming. As a lifetime game and lover of history I thought I would take a walk through time to look at the state of gaming through the lens of The Dragon.