David Farrier

I love that these games can go on for years and years.

I've watched the movie.

It was a movie.

Dungeons and Dragons.

It was a film.

It's huge.

I'm going to play the documentary to you and then we will discuss.

Does that sound like a plan?

I've come to Seattle to meet Dungeons & Dragons royalty, 83-year-old Phil, who's been playing D&D for an outrageously long time.

Why Seattle?

Well, that's where D&D headquarters are, and they'd flown Phil in yesterday to give him an honorary award.

Bonus fact, the D&D office is next to a Boeing factory where they make brand new planes.

But inside the D&D office, I shake hands with Phil, who, if you want to picture him in your mind's eye, looks a lot like Brian Cox from Succession.

Phil tells me he got into the game by accident way back in the 70s when the very first edition of D&D had just been released.

Do you remember the first time you heard about the game?

Was it a friend that introduced you?

And what year would have this been roughly?

He was in his early 30s at the time.

Do you remember when you knew, oh, this is a game I think I'll go back to as opposed to just playing it once?

Phil loved being a dungeon master, running the game, and he wanted to spread the game beyond him and his kids.