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<blockquote data-quote="Tev" data-source="post: 7729395" data-attributes="member: 6919681"><p>I wonder how many of those players would have started playing without ever having watched online streams/videos. I've tried getting into some DnD streams but I just can't keep up with them. Most of them seem to have episodes of at least an hour and a half in length and I have trouble finding the time to commit to watching. I can definitely see why they're so popular though, D&D is an excellent medium to tell a story and the element of player choice makes for compelling viewing.</p><p></p><p>What are the other ways people find out about D&D? I ended up getting into out of pure curiosity mostly. I'd seen references to it in pop-culture and was randomly thinking about it one day and started wondering about how it works, how can you play an RPG where you can make decisions that effect the world just using some books? I did some research online and found out about DMs, rules and everything that is used to run a DnD session. I messaged some friends about it and we all wanted to give it a try so I bought the 5e starter edition that had just been released and from that we ended up playing regular sessions once a week.</p><p></p><p>I imagine word of mouth is the other big pull of players into the game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tev, post: 7729395, member: 6919681"] I wonder how many of those players would have started playing without ever having watched online streams/videos. I've tried getting into some DnD streams but I just can't keep up with them. Most of them seem to have episodes of at least an hour and a half in length and I have trouble finding the time to commit to watching. I can definitely see why they're so popular though, D&D is an excellent medium to tell a story and the element of player choice makes for compelling viewing. What are the other ways people find out about D&D? I ended up getting into out of pure curiosity mostly. I'd seen references to it in pop-culture and was randomly thinking about it one day and started wondering about how it works, how can you play an RPG where you can make decisions that effect the world just using some books? I did some research online and found out about DMs, rules and everything that is used to run a DnD session. I messaged some friends about it and we all wanted to give it a try so I bought the 5e starter edition that had just been released and from that we ended up playing regular sessions once a week. I imagine word of mouth is the other big pull of players into the game. [/QUOTE]
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