![]() ![]() “If you have dice and you have a pencil and paper, you can play this game.” “All you really need to play D&D is a way to record character information and a set of dice,” says Brennan Lee Mulligan, the creator and dungeon master (the person who runs a game, usually abbreviated to “DM”) of the show Dimension 20. While some players will carry around a “backpack full of role-playing gear,” according to Anthony Burch, a co-host of the Dungeons and Daddies podcast, part of the game’s appeal is a short list of essentials. If you’re gift-shopping for a D&D player (or for yourself), some good news: The game requires less equipment than I expected, though there’s always room for more. It has taken longer for me to internalize all the rules - I just figured out how to use my rogue’s class features correctly - but in the midst of a long COVID winter, it was a good excuse to make up a character, put on a wig (not mandatory but fun), roll some dice, and learn surprising things about your friends. But after hearing enough secondhand D&D stories about dead gods and magical pets, I succumbed to curiosity. ![]() I wasn’t completely turned off, but I didn’t expect to find it especially addictive or intuitive. I’d known of D&D as a math-heavy tabletop role-playing game first published in 1974 with a historically white, male, and nerdy fanbase. ![]() Photo-Illustration: The Strategist Photos: Retailersĭuring the last few years, my corner of the world has been transformed by strange, arcane forces: More and more of my friends are playing Dungeons & Dragons. ![]()
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