Fifty years since it was first created, D&D has become a global cultural phenomenon.
game has conjured images of nerdy boys tucked away in a basement, rolling dice, eating pizza and sending off imaginary adventurers in pursuit of orcs and trolls. And for some of those years, that description, while slightly pejorative, was not wholly inaccurate.
When the show toured the US in 2023 and 2024, reviewers were almost unilaterally positive. “The show is, to use a phrase I learnt in critic school, a hoot and a half,” wrote’s Victor Catano. “Mistakes are made, resilience and humour are at their best, and, in the most tumultuous of social times, everyone comes together, cheers together laughs together,” wroteAs a director, Fell’s history as a player of the game gives him a unique understanding of how the game and the show concept intersect.
Like most D&D players, Fell found the game in high school in 2000 but, in true D&D style, fumbled his first roll of the dice. “I started with some friends. We were theatre nerds in high school and my friend invited us over to his basement to play,” Fell says. “We played one session before it got completely out of control and we ended up aggravating our friend who was Dungeon Mastering for us.
The capsule history of the game runs something like this: in August 1969 Gary Gygax meets gamer Dave Arneson and gives him a copy of his war gameIt is an immediate hit, at least in the Gygax house, where the characters of family and friends would go on to become iconic in the game’s canon: the wizards Tenser , Melf , and Gary Gygax’s own characters, the wizards Bigby and Mordenkainen, among them.
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