“Meeting your kids in the Forgotten Realms.”
Dungeons & Dragons
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Shall We Play a Game?
“Historian Jon Peterson traces the route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement.”
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Best Of 2023: Features
At the time of this writing, Longreads editors have created nearly 650 recommendations in 2023, and just about every one of them can be considered a feature. However, you’ll find that the stories contained herein are features in the classic sense: marriages of deep reporting and indelible prose. Some are light, others emotionally taxing. Their […]
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When Wizards and Orcs Came to Death Row
“’I’m in,’ Wardlow said. And so Arthaxx, his character, opened his eyes.”
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Dungeons & Dragons’ Epic Quest to Finally Make Money
“Can Hasbro overcome 50 years of D&D business disasters without enraging its fan base?”
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Once a Nerd, Always a Nerd: D&D 4Eva
George Murray is “playing it forward” — sharing his love of Dungeons & Dragons by acting as dungeon master for families who want to learn to play.
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Here at the End of All Things
On losing oneself in the geography of fantasy worlds, from Middle Earth to Westeros.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Geek Love: On Nerditry as Salvation in ’70s Small-Town Canada
At The Walrus, Kevin Patterson writes on how his fraternal twin brother embraced nerditry to navigate the homophobia of small-town Canada in the ’70s.
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Geek Love: On Nerditry as Salvation in ’70s Small-Town Canada
At The Walrus, Kevin Patterson writes on how his fraternal twin brother embraced nerditry to navigate the homophobia of small-town Canada in the ’70s.