D&D!

Hello, weary travelers.

I am Omar, your dungeon grandmaster.

No, I'm just kidding.

We're gonna be playing D and D today.

Instead, I'm gonna inform you guys about the significance overall,

playing games.

Okay. Now, as someone who has endured hundreds of hours

of role playing games, I have become very well versed

with the history and significance that it has, you know,

come to give to our society.

Now, according to times free press dot com, I'm not

the only one.

There is actually an estimated 5.5 million regular tabletop RPG

players in the US alone, which means these games are

all around us and already embedded in the culture, right?

These RPGs have affected the culture, offered an outlet of

relief to its players and up sort of the creation

of an entire video game genre.

Right? So in this speech, I'll briefly discuss what RPGs

are. In fact, they have on gaming history and society

and the positive and negative consequences that, uh, you can

get from playing such games.

Now, before we can happen to a dungeon, we must

first know what a dungeon even is.

So the most relevant popular form of tabletop RPGs is,

of course, Dungeons and Dragons or DND for sure, right,

which I'll be dissecting in detail for you guys and

explaining how to play it, right?

So in a D and D campaign, which is a

fancy word for story, there's two types of people.

There's a dungeon master or a D M and a

player. Now the D M controls the full aspect of

the university.

Guys are being put in the world building the city's

the towns and 10 PCs that characters the loot, the

monsters, the combat system, the actions and the abilities you

can get.

Everything is up to the D M, but as a

player, you get put into the DMZ world to interact

freely in any way.

You wish, for example, to the D.

M puts you in a tavern.

You can buy a drink for your friends.

Rap battle.

Someone break dancing on the floor room, break a chair

over someone's head.

The possibilities are limitless.

It's all up to what you want to do, right?

Uh, of course, it's not all willy nilly.

There are rules to DND.

For example, there's an action in combat system, uh, things

involving stats like, uh, strength, dexterity, Constitution, intelligence, wisdom, charisma,

you name it.

There's many different stats that a player can get to

affect how they do certain actions, right?

And, of course, everything depends on dice rolls.

Uh, usually people use a D 20 to play DND,

which is a dice with 20 sides.

Say you want to pick up a box, you roll

your strength stat, and you roll a D 20 for

it. If you roll a one, which is the lowest

number, you can dislocate your arms picking up this box.

It's a horrible failure if you roll a 20.

On the other hand, it is a perfect success, meaning

you can do not only lifting up that one box,

but every box in the room.

You know, it is the highest quality that you can

perform the action with now, in terms of the things

you can do within a campaign.

Like I said, it's all up to the D M.

He can make an action type of story where you're

a boxer trying to become the world champ.

You can make a mystery where you try to figure

out who murdered the king, who is the assassin, You

can make it a horror where you and your friends

are thrown into a haunted house.

Of course, it's all up to the D M.

And the possibilities, like I said, are limitless.

And now that you know what that crazy is all

about, we're gonna talk about RPGs came to be such

a well known phenomenon in the culture of the United

States. So RPGs or DND specifically were such an innovative

and new concept in the gaming world that people just

flock to it like moths to a flame.

In fact, according to a comic book dot com, uh,

players of all ages came to the game from 13

to 40 and beyond.

And according to the verge dot com, the popularity has

reached to such an extent that DND has been referenced

heavily and shows like Netflix's stranger things.

If that rings a bell for you.

Uh, matter of fact, the entire genre of turn based

games, you know, came from DND.

For example, Final fantasy role of Warcraft.

Pokemon all took elements from DND and put it into

their games.

You know, for example, things like hit points, luck, attack

name, monsters, hidden loot n P C s you name

it. It probably came from DND at some point in

time and according to the gamer dot com Pokemon Roller

Worker final fantasy that all took and even Triple A

titles, they took all these elements and put them kind

of like the DNA of DND, put them into their

game and base their rules around this core structure of

tabletop RPGs, which they stemmed from and to the state,

is more hyping generated around DND.

You know, for things such as, uh, you have things

like Web series like Critical Role, where your favorite voice

actors and celebrities coming together to play a DND session

live streaming for y'all to watch, you know, steadily growing

the the hype and the popularity of DND.

There's also an official DND store, where they sell the

iconic weapons and armor from such games that you can

wear in real life.

You know, that's pretty cool, and it also slowly, like

I said, build up the hype and popularity of such

games. Now, aside from the impact which we just discussed,

there are effects of playing DND beneficial and detrimental.

According to Katie layer dot com DND psychologically linked to

potentially serve as a kind of therapy to those who

play it, for example, it can improve your social skills,

boost your self esteem and even practice impulse control in

patients. You can even build emotional bonds or the people

that you play on the table with as you interact

with their characters through your own gives you a chance

to expand your mind.

You see you're playing as someone else in DND, so

you get to perceive things in different lights.

Okay, and of course, customization is limitless, allowing you to

practice your creative liberties.

An experiment here and there now, like I said, there

are various problems of playing DND.

For example, according to slide flourish dot com, the average

session of DND can last well above four hours, which

is mentally exhausting, especially for a player who has never

done tabletop refugees in the past.

And, of course, like any game playing to longer being

to immerse can lead to game addiction, just never a

good thing.

And, of course, like many multiplayer games like, for example,

monopoly arguments can arise between the table, and, you know

friendships can become a little bit shaky after one or

two sessions, but that's all within reasonable expectations for any

type of game.

Now let me switch to slide for you all.

Perfect. Alright.

Information. You know, uh, tabletop RPGs are outlets for you

and your friends can plug in some crazy fantasies and

live in them.

Due to the imaginative and non restrictive aspect of the

game, RPGs have permanently affected our culture by adding an

entire genre to the gaming world.

These games can prove to be the exact kind of

break you need in your life, your everyday activities offering

the transfer your mind to exercise itself to its fullest

ability. But like all things, however, one needs to exercise

caution not to become too immersed or, you know, too

addicted to playing, even though it can help you in

terms of, uh, therapeutic, you know, benefits.

Now, of course, a less.

Our journey is over.

And we have to leave this informative dungeon with this

new knowledge.

What adventures await you in the future?

Only the dungeon master ever knows.

And thank you for listening.

D&D!

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