Article about D&D in The New-Yorker

[Ancalagon]

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-uncanny-resurrection-of-dungeons-and-dragons

Well isn't that interesting. I am not done reading but it's very positive so far. They note the potential benefit for reading, writing and focus.

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[Oofta]

Interesting article, I think the last paragraph kind of sums up my feelings

During one game, a player felt his phone shaking in his pocket, revealed its glowing surface, and, from three thousand miles away, saw the news that the national-security adviser Michael Flynn had resigned from the Trump Administration. “Put it away,” another player snapped. “That’s what I came here to escape.”

 

[Tormyr]

The opening few paragraphs are about my FLGS!
https://www.thebrooklynstrategist.com/

 

[robus]

Yep, that’s why I took it up. To escape from the digital world we’ve created. I work from home alone everyday and that night of analog entertainment is a definite high-point. Too bad we had to miss this week.

 

[iamntbatman]

Great article all around, and hits on a lot of great reasons why the game has seen a resurgence. I think it does miss something crucial, though - as important as the escapism is (both in a traditional sense, and the newly discovered sense of escaping digital isolationism by spending unplugged time in meatspace with friends), I think for people who really get into the roleplaying aspect of it (rather than treating it as a wargame/sim) have a wonderful opportunity to craft creative personas that are a strange and fascinating amalgamation of their fantasies and aspects of their real personalities that want and/or need to be explored. I really do think RPGs have a unique strength in their ability to combine these things into one extremely immersive co-operative storytelling experience.

 

[Yama Dai O]

On to next week, where they will print an article about darts and note the potential improvement to hand-eye coordination and health benefits when the players waddle their beer bellies over to the game corner. Also, hysterical rumors from the eighties about the dangers of darts have been laid to rest, really.

 

[jasper]

On to next week, where they will print an article about darts and note the potential improvement to hand-eye coordination and health benefits when the players waddle their beer bellies over to the game corner. Also, hysterical rumors from the eighties about the dangers of darts have been laid to rest, really.

lol. I like him. He is slightly evil. I will take him on as an evil minion.