David Farrier

Phil hands us all character sheets, who we're going to be.

I tell him this game was semi-banned when I grew up.

Danny chimes in.

Turns out when he was a kid, some of the adults around him also thought D&D was evil.

which is just quite objectively funny when you realize he runs dnd worldwide today he remembers news reports from the time that helped feed the moral panic part of the satanic panic of the 1980s

It sounded like the rhythm of Dungeons & Dragons.

Mazes and Monsters was a movie starring Tom Hanks that came out in 1982, the year I was born.

The plot is essentially about a bunch of D&D players.

One of them experiences a psychotic break and can't tell the difference between what's real and what's not.

It helps stir the pot when it came to people being scared of D&D.

Mazes and Monsters.

The film was loosely based on a real-life story about a teen having a mental breakdown, who happened to also like Dungeons and Dragons.

Remarkable, because we've come now, we've got Stranger Thing, which is having the opposite effect.

It's boosting it in an insanely positive way.

And here I am, 42 years later, finally about to play my first game.

This feels very intimidating.

There's a lot going on here.

I'm also quite bad with rules and retaining new information in the moment.

So I'm excited, but also scared.

I'm excited.