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When a group of people play a game together, they enter a sort of alternate reality where friendships form at an accelerated rate.
Lost in the game, behavioral norms are forgotten, and emotional defenses weaken. Players begin to feel—and act upon—unusually strong impulses.3 Emotions run high, and they keep getting higher; joy, anger, excitement, fear, even the terror of (simulated) death. In this artificially accelerated and emotionally heightened social environment, bonds are forged quickly and forged strong.
“When I tell other people who have never played D&D about the game, I describe it as communal storytelling,” says Morgan.
