'Dungeons & Dragons' Faces Future Online

By PETER SVENSSON , AP Technology Writer, Technology / Software

Wizards of the Coast provided this image of the digital game table for Dungeons and Dragons Insider. Dungeons and Dragons has never quite become mainstream entertainment, but it has inspired roleplaying computer games like "World of Warcraft" to borrow its principles and turn them into a multibillion-dollar industry. The next edition of the game, due out in June, will for the first time be paired with online features that the publisher hopes will lure lapsed players back to the dungeon. (AP Photo/Wizards of the Coast)

(AP) -- It must be tough to be 34 and already see your children overshadow you. That's what's happened to "Dungeons & Dragons," the roleplaying game that for decades has drawn geeks to roll dice and pretend to be elves, sorcerers and other fantasy heroes. It has never quite become mainstream entertainment, but it has inspired roleplaying computer games like "World of Warcraft" to borrow its principles and turn them into a multibillion-dollar industry.

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