A strange little side quest
Grombi trivia break for Idle Grindia: Dungeon Quest: Early computer role-playing games helped turn rules, inventories, exploration and character progression into systems that could support long-form digital adventures. The broader history adds one more wrinkle. Games resembling checkers were being played thousands of years ago; evidence of related games reaches back to around 1600 BC. That long chain of experiments is part of why role-playing games still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.