Hi, I'm Amanda McLaughlin. I'm a co-host and co-producer of Join the Party.

Hello, I'm Eric Silver, the Dungeon Master of Join the Party.

And we're here to explain a little bit about Dungeons and Dragons,

for those of you who are not familiar, starting with.

Eric, what's Dungeons and Dragons?

Well, Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game where a bunch of people sit around a table, have fun,

talk to each other, encounter wonderful adventures that is usually dictated by a dungeon master

who has some sort of story prepared for the

characters to participate in. And why are we using D&D to tell a story?

Dungeons and Dragons allows you to tell a story, but also you're playing a game and also you're hanging out with your friends.

If you were to sit around like you're on a camping trip or like a road trip and people were like okay let's tell a story

Like how would that even happen? It's so difficult to just kind of pull

Yeah, you would just like pull things from your brain and try to do it as much as possible.

But there is a game system to kind of facilitate that, and you get to play as an adventurer or as a hero.

It is all about playing in like a heightened space where you get to make choices that is like set it doesn't necessarily need to be in fantasy, but it's usually set in that fantasy setting.

Very Lord of the Rings. I'm going to go do this quest with my allies and we're going to defeat a bad guy.

And what is a relationship like as we play the game between the DM, yourself, and the

players?

Right, so DM stands for Dungeon Master, which is what we said before.

The players get to control the main characters.

Think of this like your protagonist, your heroes, again if we're using Lord of the Rings

as jumping off point, this is like Aragorn and Gimli and the

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