You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, a show about how we create them and why we suspend

our disbelief.

I'm Eric Mullinsky.

I always appreciate when people discover my podcast that go back and binge through the

old episodes.

And then I get feedback all of a sudden on an episode that came out years ago, but it

feels new to them.

In one episode that I get a lot of feedback on, is an episode that I did in 2015 called

Rolling the 20-Sided Dice, which was about Dungeons and Dragons.

Now I had never played D&D as a kid, so I spent a few months at a game shop in Brooklyn

recording myself learning to play.

I also talked with some creative people now about how D&D influenced them and their adult

careers.

But one of the most common questions that I get from listeners when they discover that

episode is whether I'm still playing.

And not only am I still playing, but I'm playing with the people that I met in that episode.

In fact, I'm still playing a character that I created not in that episode, but very shortly

afterward.

So I'm going to play you a much shortened version of my 2015 episode.

I'm just going to play the tape of me at the game shop learning how to play.

And then afterwards we will hear from my D&D group about the epic journey we've been on

since I recorded this episode three years ago.

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