How Dungeons and Dragons somehow became more popular than ever
Stars of “Girls Guts Glory,” a Dungeons & Dragons Web series, from left: Kimberly Hidalgo, Erika Fermina, Kelen Coleman , Rachel Seeley, Allie Gonino, Alice Greczyn, Sujata Day and Kelly Lynne D’Angelo. Early episodes were met with harsh comments: “Like. . . ‘There’s no way they actually play. No one plays D&D who looks like that,’” Fermina recalls. By Gendy Alimurung April 18 at 9:00 AM BURBANK, Calif.
Vin Diesel, Jon Favreau, Drew Barrymore, Dwayne Johnson, James Franco, Stephen Colbert, Anderson Cooper, Ta-Nehisi Coates: The list of celebrities who have “come out” about rolling the 20-sided dice is as long as a wizard’s beard. “Game of Thrones” writer George R.R. Martin first flexed his storytelling muscles as a young Dungeon Master, as did the showrunners on the HBO series. Joe Manganiello is so obsessed that he wrote a D&D movie script.
D&D has come a long way since Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson invented it in 1974 as an alternative to miniature-military war gaming. No longer is it a game to hide out with in Mom’s basement. Within days, Gustavo was quoting verbatim from the rule books. Within weeks, he and Dad were logging six hours every Saturday at a D&D table at Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory in Los Angeles.
Characters come in a rainbow of skin colors and body types and sexual orientations — like the wood elves who identify as non-binary. [‘Growing up, we were the weird ones’: The wizarding, mermaiding, cosplaying haven of Epic Nerd Camp] “It’s a dream come true. And I didn’t even know I had this dream. Didn’t know it was an option,” she says.
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