Why Is ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Still So Misunderstood?
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At 50, the game is more popular than ever, but its core appeal is still a great secret.
The Most Dangerous Game At 50, Dungeons & Dragons is more popular than ever — and still misunderstood. By Andrea Long Chu, Pulitzer-winning critic for New York and Vulture Illustration: Rob Vargas Illustration: Rob Vargas Illustration: Rob Vargas In the summer of 1979, the New York Times reported that a 16-year-old student at Michigan State University named James Dallas Egbert III had gone missing while playing a “bizarre intellectual game.” In his dorm room, campus police had discovered a suicide note as well as a corkboard covered in thumbtacks that seemed to map out the school’s…
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