D&D General D&D Gets an Article in Smithsonian Magazine!

In the July-August issue of Smithsonian, D&D gets a small, 2-page, article entitled "Changing the Game: The wizardry of Dungeons & Dragons sparked a revolution in how we play just about everything." Now, I have a subscription to Smithsonian, but honestly? It usually ends up as packing material (I very rarely read it). This month, however, my dad (who also has a subscription) read the article and was suddenly much more interested in my hobby (he's a 77-year-old attorney a la Matlock - right down to the bolo tie and cowboy boots - who has historically had ZERO interest in my hobbies), so I thought this was pretty neat. I think the article definitely reached a demographic who would usually have no interest at all in D&D.

Thanks! (My folks subscribed to that for years!)


And tangentially

That's pretty cool! 50 years is a pretty big milestone, and D&D is--well, it's a lot of things, but it's a cultural touchstone for a lot of people. It makes sense that the Smithsonian would drop an article or two about it.