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They are all guys though.
I dont know how typical that is, but I do know how stereotypical.
I think with practice I could just about manage a dice bag.
I didnt think I had space left for anything else, until a very particular set of circumstances arose.
They had the idea of getting a bunch of poets together to do aD&Dpodcast.
They asked me to play under the assumption that, as a nerd, I was up to scratch.
I said I hadnt played in a while.
They said that was fine.
There are more voices being heard challenging the existing perception.
The following year an episode ofCommunitydid the same.
This unearthed two truths previously only known to devotees:
1.
AsD&Dis largely about storytelling, its surprisingly easy to get swept up in it.2.
Richard Ayoade and Danny Pudi doing funny voices is never not going to be entertaining.
I knew enough to turn up and not ruin it for everyone, an aspiration that is seldom realised.
I had a sympathetic dungeon master.
If you are going to have a dungeon master, you want them to be sympathetic whatever the context.
Traditionally, wizards are only so forgetful.
Gandalf usually knows what to do pretty quickly.
As a cleric, though, I needed to be regularly reminded what my spells actually did.
As I said, one thing that the sitcom depictions ofD&Dnail is how into it you get.
The internet has done many wonderful things (eg.
Oh, and a shout out to the warm up game we played before hand,Avalon.
This is an Arthurian themed version ofThe Resistance.
The two sides then attempt to win three out of five missions and everyone gets really paranoid.
It really is a delightful way to spend an evening.
