The Dungeons & Dragons Experience (2004 Documentary)

The Dungeons & Dragons Experience (Complete Documentary)
Publisher: Spiro Graphics
Author: Jesse Spiro

"The D&D Experience focuses on an actual gaming group, interviewing the members and interspersing their insights with actual footage of the group playing Dungeons & Dragons. Though the disc does eventually get to GenCon and the infamous Mazes and Monsters, such topics are only addressed briefly, as more of a part of the overall experience, rather than becoming a focus. This DVD is about talking to gamers and showing what it's like to game, and to that end it succeeds quite well.

We begin with a quick two-minute history of the game, beginning with 18th Century Prussian wargames, moving on through H.G. Wells' "Little Wars" and the Castles & Crusades Society to Arneson, Gygax and TSR. We then meet the gaming group we'll be spending the next hour or so with, as they explain their motivations for gaming (exploring other personalities, pushing the limits) and discuss the fact that things can be taken too far, with people who get too deep into their characters.

The bulk of the disc's first half is, however, devoted to the Dungeon Master, exploring his (or her) motivations and the importance of this central figure in the cooperative gaming experience. One suspects that the DMs interviewed are very good at what they do, willing to devote hours and hours creating maps, entertaining players with silly voices, allowing their groups free reign but able to gently nudge them back in the right direction when needed. Ultimately, we are told, a game's success or failure rides with the DM -- the best gaming system in the world won't keep players around if the DM sucks at his job." - RPG dot net review

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