Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Why You Should Play D&D

I was reading this article on Hollywood types that play Dungeons and Dragons and noted that it points out three good reasons to play D&D:

1. Encourages creativity.  Game of Thrones, Adventure Time, World of Warcraft, heck any fantasy video game, any video game at all that was released in the last 20 years has its roots in the developers playing D&D in their youth

2. Encourages spontaneity--in order to play or run D&D, you have to be able to think on your feet, either as the player responding to what the DM throws at you or as the Dungeon Master responding to the things the player has just done. Imagine that you have created an entire adventure based on the players going  into a castle and they decide to explore the forest outside. What do you do then?

3 Worldbuilding--A Dungeon master has the entire world, either meticulously or hazily, in their mind and develops dozens if not hundreds of "what if" scenarios:  “I played compulsively for years,” admits D.B. Weiss, the 45-year-old Game of Thronesshowrunner, who says infatuation with Dungeons & Dragons during his teenage years in Chicago was the perfect preparation for his current job. “It was my first experience with world-building,” he explains. “You’d see hundreds of ‘what if’ scenarios play out in real time as players attempted to achieve their various goals "


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