# What's the deal with Dungeons and Dragons? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [March 27, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-dungeons-and-dragons/350140 "2006-03-27T19:50:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dovy6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@dovy6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dovy6)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-dungeons-and-dragons/350140/1 "2006-03-27T19:50:59Z")
[What’s the deal with Dungeons and Dragons?](http://http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_309b.html) whats the deal with this? on the top of the page it says > [@](#): > > What’s the deal with Dungeons and Dragons? 26-Sep-1980 Dear Cecil: In the past few years I have heard different things about various games played in some co and than on the bottom of the page it says > [@](#): > > Relief is at hand. A CD-ROM product called “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons CD-ROM Core Rules,” due out in September 1996, will assist you with the calculations if you’ve got a PC. Better make sure it’s a Pentium i didnt know they had a pentiom back than! ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-dungeons-and-dragons/350140/2 "2006-03-27T21:51:20Z")
It’s common practice now for older columns to be updated to include information that wasn’t available at the time of the original writing. The updating is haphazard and inconsistently applied, so you won’t always see it. However, that’s all that’s going on. Your link didn’t work for me, so [here it is again](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_309b.html).