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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8327067" data-attributes="member: 6779196">In four sentences (three of which are admittedly a bit long):D&D is a game of emergent storytelling. One player - called the dungeon master, or DM - describes a fictional scenario, and the other players imagine themselves as characters in that scenario, and make decisions as they imagine those characters would. The game plays like a conversation, where the DM describes the environment, the players describe what their characters do, and the DM describes the results. Most of the time, the results will be obvious, but if the outcome is uncertain, you use dice as random number generators to determine what happens in an unbiased way.This is more or less the pitch I use when someone expresses curiosity about D&D. If they seem interested, I tell them the best way to learn is to play, and (if I have the bandwidth for it) offer to run a short introductory game for them, or if they want to see an example of it being played, to check out an episode of Critical Role.</blockquote>