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    From Justisaur@21:1/5 to Kyonshi on Wed Mar 5 08:58:21 2025
    On 3/5/2025 7:07 AM, Kyonshi wrote:
    https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/dungeons-and-dragons- dimension-20-madison-square-garden-1235258992/


    I didn't read all the wall of text but I'm familiar with Brandon Lee
    Mulligan. I find him more interesting to watch than the Critical Role
    crew, but I see him more on that improv game show game changers. What
    little of the D&D I see is clips as I find clips of the best bits much
    better than watching whole D&D games. It's bad enough when I have to
    wait my turn when I'm playing.

    As I understand it they aren't really playing D&D anyway except in
    spirit. it's more like improv with some D&D trappings.

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  • From Justisaur@21:1/5 to David Chmelik on Thu Mar 13 07:32:49 2025
    On 3/8/2025 10:43 PM, David Chmelik wrote:
    On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 16:07:58 +0100, Kyonshi wrote:
    https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/dungeons-and-dragons-
    dimension-20-madison-square-garden-1235258992/

    Article saya 'Inside the Biggest Live Game of ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Ever Played' but 'live' can mean 'in real life (IRL)', 'live performance', 'broadcast live' so I doubt it, as biggest live (IRL, 50+ players, 500+ characters) is surely famous one continued since 1982 Dungeon Master (DM) Robert Wardhaugh has table with many miniatures, dioramas, and if player characters die without kids (or successors in case of celibate clerics, monastics, paladins, etc.) player must quit... you've probably heard/seen about it ( Wikipedia.org , YouTube.com). Maybe game Rolling Stone
    magazine mentions had largest audience, but who knows whether it's largest D&D group broadcast live either?

    Interesting point.

    I played in an AD&D game with 50 players, a whole bunch of DMs (which technically raises the count too) at a local con one time. It was kind
    of like playing by mail as turns were written down and handed in, and
    took forever, everyone except the DMs were playing other games, and the
    DMs were running the results and calling over players to the table with
    the battle on it after their last turn was resolved to write down their
    next one.

    It was PVP arena. I was 2nd to last to die as a max level monk (becasue
    I mostly just ran away from everyone at my insane speed, I did use
    quivering palm on someone though!) the max level druid won.

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