Brent Antonson

Dungeons & Dragons: When Imagination Was the Graphics Engine

There was a time — before open-world video games swallowed whole weekends and rendered every detail down to the pores — when the most vivid worlds any of us knew were made out of pencils, dice, and nerve. Dungeons & Dragons wasn’t a game the way people think of games now....

The Operating System of Reality

We live inside a system so precise that the smallest shift would erase everything we know. Not a dramatic shift — not an apocalypse — just a microscopic nudge in the constants that govern reality: * If gravity were slightly weaker, stars would never form. * If it were slightly stronger, every star would...