Kansas City Chiefs Release Hour-Long D&D Actual Play Video

The Kansas City Chiefs posted an interesting video over the weekend, featuring six of their defensive players playing Dungeons & Dragons. The video, Dungeons & Defense, was posted over the weekend and has racked up over 29,000 views as of Monday morning. The video features Chris Jones, Mike Pennel, George Karlaftis, Derrick Nnadi, Mike Danna, and Ashton Gillotte in a session led by veteran Actual Play performer Anna Margaret in a homebrew session. The session itself follows typical D&D tropes - six adventurers enter a tavern and are tasked with retrieving a magical orb stolen from a sect of clerics. The full video can be found below.



The NFL and TTRPGs have had a series of recent crossovers. The Cleveland Browns had a well-documented game of D&D going for several years featuring defensive star Myles Garrett. The ringleader of that group, Johnny Stanton IV now produces tabletop RPG content. Additionally, former Dallas Cowboys player Travis Frederick co-founded Demiplane.

 

[aco175]

The intro was entertaining- have not watched all of it. "I'm playing a dragonborn palladium".

 

[jdrakeh]

I love it. D&D is surprisingly mainstream now. The group of folks I currently play with includes an investment banker and military brass.

 

[Minigiant]

Brain: Don't say it. Don't Do it. Don't.

They started off challenging each other out the gate. No wonder they...

Brain: Shut up. Your team sucks too.

 

[R_J_K75]

So, this explains why their season imploded...Sorry Coach no time for practice, gotta kill this Basilisk. I'm not sure I can bring myself to watch the video, though it does seem like an extremely odd pairing, D&D and the NFL

 

[bedir than]

So, this explains why their season imploded...Sorry Coach no time for practice, gotta kill this Basilisk. I'm not sure I can bring myself to watch the video, though it does seem like an extremely odd pairing, D&D and the NFL

The Cleveland Browns had a regular campaign going. It featured in Sports Illustrated (prior to their recent PE downfall). The organizer retired from the NFL and is now a full time D&D creator.

 

[mearls]

There’s a long history of crossover between gaming and sports. Back in the 1990s, they San Antonio Spurs had a LAN on their team plane to play Starcraft.

With social media being a thing, a lot more players turn to things like gaming (digital and tabletop) to socialize and blow off steam. You are one bad decision away from going viral at a bar or nightclub.

 

[R_J_K75]

The Cleveland Browns had a regular campaign going. It featured in Sports Illustrated (prior to their recent PE downfall). The organizer retired from the NFL and is now a full time D&D creator.

Cool, that's interesting. Makes you wonder...chicken or the egg scenario. Was D&D always there in places no one expected, and some people didn't want to admit they play, and gathered in clandestine circles to roll d20's, or has it now become mainstream?

 

[darjr]

There’s a long history of crossover between gaming and sports. Back in the 1990s, they San Antonio Spurs had a LAN on their team plane to play Starcraft.

With social media being a thing, a lot more players turn to things like gaming (digital and tabletop) to socialize and blow off steam. You are one bad decision away from going viral at a bar or nightclub.

In jr high school football I had a “did we just become best friends” moment when we realized a bunch of us were playing D&D.

We were already friends cause “team” and all but this was a special extra moment.

 

[R_J_K75]

You are one bad decision away from going viral at a bar or nightclub.

That was the entirety of my late 80's, early 90's, but there was no social media back then, so we got away with our drunken hijinks. I had a buddy of mine we were talking about a year or so ago and he said...if there was social media and camera phones back then we'd be in prison for life. We never did anything to bad, just stupid and funny stuff.