A strange little side quest
One reason role-playing games keeps producing good game ideas around Insectcraft is that its history is full of strange turns. By 1987, fantasy role-playing had become a major computer-game direction, with Zelda, licensed Dungeons & Dragons games and other story-led adventures expanding the form. And the history keeps stacking up: Boxing entered the modern Olympic Games in 1904 at St. Louis. So a round of Insectcraft is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer role-playing games timeline.
