Forty Years of Continuous Dungeons & Dragons
Inspirational? Disconcerting? Meh? Galactic faux pas? Simply Canadian?
Sometimes something just hits me. Most of the time I don’t bother to share it. This WIRED magazine video about a guy whose been running a decades-long Dungeons & Dragons campaign hit me hard enough for me to want to glean reactions from others.
Check out the video; I’m curious to read your reactions.
I am still processing my reaction to his story. What that reaction is, I am not quite sure. Here is a degree of commitment to a hobby which is crazy next level. As a fan of D&D back in the dark ages before the Internet existed - thanks for creating it, Al Gore! - I certainly don’t judge anyone who enjoys role playing games.
Anyone under 16, that is. Probably not over 16, either, but to be honest, if I gave up a game when I traded in 20-sided dice for dating real-life, 3D human girls, I probably harbor some judgments of those who did not.
I am going to hold off on judgment for now. Spoiler alert for an upcoming show when I interview our Secret High Space Overlords currently camped out at Area 51, I did pose some human-recreation-related questions to some of our Rulers last time I was out in the desert. I got some unsurprising answers.
Hot take: If you apply to the new Space Work Farm positions, I’d suggest you leave the form blank where it asks you to list your “hobbies.” Not a thing with our Pan-Dimensional Universe Trotting Omnipotent Controllers.