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There’s a non-zero chance that I’m going to spontaneously combust if I don’t play D&D soon; this book is killing me. It’s like holding a bowl of macaroni and cheese in front of a five-year-old’s face and telling him he can’t eat it.

Let's just all agree to accept that Jeremy Irons really, really needed the money, make peace with it, and forget that whole D&D movie fiasco ever happened.

The Forgotten Realms is my happy place. And 7-Eleven--that's also my happy place.

I love that some of these modules are for parties of 6-8 adventurers, and I wonder what it would be like to play with that many people; outside of a couple of times at game cons, which is fun but sort of a weird situation, I've never played a D&D session with more than 4 people (including the DM). For those who have routinely played with big parties--more or less fun than with small parties?

There's no question that D&D's reputation as a cult-like, satanic game was an absurd product of horrible, baseless, sensationalist reporting, but you can't help but wonder how much that reputation, in turn, drew people to the game. That is, would it have become a cult phenomenon of a different sort, and would it have had the pervasive influence it's had but for the taboo vibe created by that shoddy reporting?

Somewhere along the way, I'm going to end up sitting in a corner playing D&D by myself because of reading this...it's been way, waaayyy too long.

I have a fantasy that a critical plot element in Bill and Ted 3 is them traveling back in time to play D&D with Gygax and Arneson (which, naturally, would somehow relate to another madcap race to get to the battle of the bands on time).

What? Like YOU don’t have some weird fantasies...