David Farrier

As he says this, I look over at Jesse and realize this is all so true.

Jesse met Phil close to four decades ago over a game of D&D.

And that game and that friendship is still going strong.

Phil, you just looked at him, you wouldn't know, but he's touched a lot, a lot of people and just had amazing success and amazing generosity.

I've just scratched the surface of what Dungeons and Dragons is and the massive influence it's had on pop culture.

But to understand that, I realize I don't even really need to know the game.

I can just look at Phil and Jesse and their friendship, their really, really long friendship.

You can have role-playing games that are a limited half-hour scenario and you're done.

The creativity that people have brought to the new, very new genre is incredible to me.

I've had a lot of time to think about this and, you know, looking back at what Phil's done, I think of D&D as role-playing as America's big cultural gift to the world.

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