Dungeons & Dragons in popular culture

Dungeons & Dragons has influenced many derivative works such as books, movies, and television shows.

Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is a fantasy role-playing game first published in 1974. As the popularity of the game grew throughout the late-1970s and 1980s, it became referenced in popular culture more frequently. The complement of games, films and cultural references based on Dungeons & Dragons or similar fantasies, characters, and adventures became ubiquitous after the end of the 1970s.

Dungeons & Dragons, and tabletop role-playing games in general, have exerted a deep and persistent impact on the development of all types of video games, from "first-person shooters to real-time strategy games and massively multiplayer online games",^[1] which in turn play a significant and ongoing role in modern popular culture.^[2]

In online culture, the term dungeon has since come to mean a virtual location where people can meet and collaborate. Hence, multi-user dungeons emerged throughout the 1970s and 1980s as a form of social networks or a social virtual reality.^[3] By creating a means for players to assemble and explore an imaginary world, the Dungeons & Dragons rules provided a transition from fantasy literary settings, such as those of author J. R. R. Tolkien, to fully virtual worlds.^[4]

Public figures who play or have played Dungeons & Dragons include comedians Stephen Colbert and Chris Hardwick, musician Moby, and actors Vin Diesel, Matthew Lillard, Mike Myers, Patton Oswalt, Wil Wheaton, and Robin Williams.^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

Literature media

Books

Independent fiction derived from the Dungeons & Dragons game appeared with the Endless Quest series of books, published by TSR, Inc between 1982 and 1987. The Endless Quest books provided a form of interactive fiction in the style of the Choose Your Own Adventure series.^[10] The continuing success of Dungeons & Dragons then sparked an even more extensive series of novels, also published by TSR, Inc. The first of these were based upon the Dragonlance campaign setting, and were released in 1984.^[11] There proved to be a lucrative market for these works, and by the 2000s a significant portion of all fantasy paperbacks were being published by Wizards of the Coast, the American game company that acquired TSR, Inc in 1997.^[12]

The impact of Dungeons & Dragons on players and culture has inspired reflective non-fiction works:

• Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms, by journalist and gamer Ethan Gilsdorf; a travel memoir about Dungeons & Dragons, role-playing games, and other fantasy and gaming subcultures.^[13]
• The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange, by novelist Mark Barrowcliffe; a memoir of playing Dungeons & Dragons and other role playing games in the 1970s.^[14]
• Author Shelly Mazzanoble wrote a humorous self-help guide called Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Dungeons & Dragons: One Woman's Quest to Trade Self-help for Elf-help. This followed her guide book, Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress: A Girl's Guide to the Dungeons & Dragons Game.^[15]
• American Nerd: The Story of My People is Time magazine writer Benjamin Nugent's study of the history and culture of people labeled nerds. It includes insights into why people play and enjoy Dungeons & Dragons.^[16]

Several characters created for playing Dungeons & Dragons, or games derived from Dungeons & Dragons, have later spawned popular fantasy series.^[17] Other novels make off-hand references to the game:

• In City of Bones, a novel by Cassandra Clare in her The Mortal Instruments series, the character Simon Lewis makes reference to Dungeons & Dragons.^[18]

Comics

Begun in 1986, the comic books The Adventurers and Redfox were inspired by Dungeons & Dragons.^[19] Several commercial comic strips are based entirely upon the game or make reference to the game in specific panels.

• Knights of the Dinner Table is a multiple award-winning^[20] comic-sized magazine featuring comic strips with a variety of characters who play "HackMaster," a parody of Dungeons & Dragons. (HackMaster would later go on to become an actual role-playing game.) Early strips appeared in the official Dungeons & Dragons magazine Dragon.
• Questionable Content, webcomic; appearing in Comic #963, "Raven Levels Up", and others^[21]
• Schlock Mercenary, webcomic; Referenced in the comic of 11 November 2007^[22]
• The Order of the Stick is an award-winning^[23] satirical webcomic that features a cast of characters in a world that loosely operates by the rules of Dungeons & Dragons.^[24]
• Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax was commemorated in webcomics series xkcd's comic #393, "Ultimate Game".^[25]
• Penny Arcade, A longstanding webcomic, created by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, references and even depicts humorous instances of bizarre campaigns, and other Dungeons & Dragons subject matter; implementing dice-rolling humor and other game dynamics.

Visual media

Film

Several films include instances of characters playing the game of Dungeons & Dragons. There have also been three feature films released that were based upon the game: Dungeons & Dragons (2000), Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God (2005), and Dungeons & Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness (2012). Warner Bros, Sweetpea Entertainment and Hasbro Films are developing a new Dungeons & Dragons film.^[26]

• In scene 2 of Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, the character Elliott, his older brother, and his friends are shown playing Dungeons & Dragons.^[27][28] Prior to the production of the film, Spielberg ran a Dungeons & Dragons session with the young cast members.^[29]
• The Futurama film Bender's Game includes Dungeons & Dragons as a crucial plot device, in which the main characters end up in a fantasy realm much like the game. The film was already in production upon Gygax's death and debuted later that year, so it was dedicated in his honor. The film included parodies of Dungeons & Dragons-influenced films.^[30]
• The short film Fear of Girls is a spoof of two heavy Dungeons & Dragons gamers. The filmmakers used viral marketing to attract attention to the film.^[31][32]
• The films The Gamers^[33] and The Gamers: Dorkness Rising^[34] by the Dead Gentlemen are parodies of Dungeons & Dragons.

Television

The CBS network ran a Saturday morning cartoon series called Dungeons & Dragons, in which a group of teenagers visiting a Dungeons and Dragons-themed theme park dark ride are magically transported into the fantasy world of Dungeons and Dragons. The show included the voice talents of Willie Aames of Eight is Enough, and ran from 1983 to 1985.^[35]

Dungeons & Dragons is also referenced in a variety of television programs:

• Community - a second season episode titled Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (AD&D) centers around the study group playing a game of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons to cheer up their near-suicidal classmate, "Fat Neil". Pierce's exclusion leads him to barge into the game, and torment everyone.^[36][37] A later episode called Advanced Advanced Dungeons & Dragons included a game of D&D which is played in order to reunite Buzz Hickey with his son.
• Futurama - in the episode "Anthology of Interest I", Gary Gygax guest-starred. Other scattered references to the game appeared throughout the episode.^[38]
• Freaks and Geeks - the final episode of the series, titled Discos and Dragons, Daniel (James Franco) is forced to join the Audio/Visual Club and the geeks invite him to a game of Dungeons & Dragons. He ends up enjoying it.^[39]
• The Sarah Silverman Program - in the second season episode Bored of the Rings, a planned date night is disrupted by a Dungeons & Dragons game.^[40]
• In the Radio Daze episode of That '70s Show, Donna is asked if she and Eric would like to stay to play Dungeons & Dragons at the radio station where she works. At the end of the episode, two staff members are shown playing a session, with a cameo appearance by Alice Cooper who is also shown playing.^[41]
• The Simpsons - Homer tells how he bonded with some new geek friends by playing Dungeons & Dragons "for three hours... then I was slain by an elf."^[42]
• The Big Bang Theory - the game played a role in 3 episodes thus far ("The Wiggly Finger Catalyst", "The Santa Simulation", and "The Love Spell Potential"), also some references.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer - In the episode "Chosen", Andrew, Xander, Giles, and one of the potential Slayers play Dungeons & Dragons while Anya sleeps at the table.
• NewsRadio - in the episode "The Real Deal", Dave demonstrates to Jimmy that he manages the station as if it were a D&D game.
• The IT Crowd - In the fourth series episode titled "Jen The Fredo", Moss has been making his own Dungeons & Dragons game and eventually gets John, John, Roy, and Phil to play, entertaining his business connections and helping Roy relieve his depression.
• Corner Gas - in the episode "Happy Campers", Brent is seen playing a game of Dungeons & Dragons with a group of teenage boys in the city.^[43]
• Tucker's Luck - In the third series episode 7 Peter "Tucker" Jenkins played by Todd Carty played Dungeons & Dragons at his girlfriend's pal's house.The Dungeon Master was played by Charley Boorman .^[44]
• Gravity Falls - The thirteenth episode of the second season, "Dungeons, Dungeons & More Dungeons", is centered around a game of the same name based on mathematics, chance and imagination.^[45]
• Stranger Things - The first and last episodes of the first season show scenes during which Will, Mike, Dustin and Lucas are playing the game. Diverse references to this game are made throughout said season.
• Dungeons & Discords The seventeeth episode of season 6 show scenes where Discord, Spike and Big McIntosh get-together to play a tabletop role-playing game called Ogres & Oubliettes.

Audio media

Music

Dungeons & Dragons is referenced in popular music:

• The Weezer song "In The Garage" starts with the lines, "I've got the Dungeon Master's Guide. I've got a 12-sided die." This is on the 1994 self-titled Weezer album, also known as the Blue Album.^[46]
• The lyrics of "Weird Al" Yankovic's satirical song "White & Nerdy" includes the line, "Got skills, I'm a Champion of D&D".^[47]
• Flashlight Brown's song "Ready to Roll" is a veiled reference to a group playing Dungeons & Dragons.^[48]
• Seminal stoner rock band Kyuss was formed in 1989 under the name "Sons of Kyuss", in reference to the deity Kyuss.^[49]
• The lyrics of Team Unicorn's satirical song "Geek and Gamer Girls Song" includes a brief reference to Dungeons & Dragons, sandwiched between a mention of Frank Herbert's Dune series and the character Rand al'Thor, the main protagonist of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.^[50]
• Owen Pallett's album He Poos Clouds is roughly based on the concept of the eight schools of magic from Dungeons & Dragons.^[51][52]
• Stephen Lynch has a comedic song titled "D&D" on his album Superhero.^[53]
• Marcy Playground Wrote a song called "Cloak of Elvenkind" about a magic item of the same name.
• Ghost Mice's song "Critical Hit" uses Dungeons & Dragons as an example of a situation where not giving up can lead to a lucky victory.^[54]
• In 2011, garage rock band Thee Oh Sees released the Carrion Crawler/The Dream EP, a Carrion Crawler being a creature in the game.

Interactive media

Video games

Dungeons & Dragons is referenced in popular video games: On June 25, 2013, Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep, downloadable campaign is released, set within the world of a DnD-parody tabletop role-playing game known as Bunkers and Badasses, with Tiny Tina serving as a game master.^[55]

Players

Stephen Colbert developed an intense interest in the game during his youth, which he later credited for his talent at character creation.^[56] Ethan Gilsdorf credited the game for bestowing upon him "gifts of creativity and self-actualization".^[57] Actor Vin Diesel, in his introduction to the book Thirty Years of Adventure, wrote that he was "attracted to the artistic outlet the game provided" and that the game was "a training ground for our imagination and an opportunity to explore our own identities".^[58] Vin Diesel, Mike Myers, and Robin Williams also participated in the 2006 Worldwide Dungeons & Dragons Game Day, demonstrating that the game was then still a lively and active hobby.^[59]

Director Chris Weitz pointed out that there "are a lot of people who played and are horribly embarrassed about it and won't admit it, because it's part of their lives they put behind". He developed a fervent interest in the game, even greater than in making movies, and said the experience "had such an influence on his life".^[60] Director Jon Favreau was drawn into the game by the fantasy elements and the sense of story, saying "it gave me a really strong background in imagination, storytelling, understanding how to create tone and a sense of balance".^[61]

Political reporter John J. Miller said that Dungeons & Dragons was a big part of his life during his school years, and argued that, "there's a lot to admire about D&D and what it can do for kids by encouraging them to read, do math, and think creatively".^[62] Fantasy author China Miéville said that playing Dungeons & Dragons as a youth was one of the most enduring influences on his writing. The two things that particularly influenced him were "the mania for cataloging the fantastic" and "the weird fetish for systematization", in that everything is reduced to "game stats".^[63] In contrast, author Mark Barrowcliffe considers his years playing Dungeons & Dragons to be a wasted youth and all of the players to be nerds. He has tried to put the experience behind him.^[64]

List of notable D&D players

The following public figures have stated that they play, or have played, Dungeons & Dragons, indicating the game's broad appeal to a diverse range of talented individuals.^[2]

• Sherman Alexie, poet, novelist and young adult author^[65]
• Bill Amend, cartoonist^[66]
• Kevin J. Anderson, author^[67]
• Noah Antwiler, internet comedian^[68]
• Lee Arenberg, actor^[69]
• Mark Barrowcliffe, author^[14][64]
• Jim Butcher, author^[70]
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, author, senior editor of Atlantic Magazine^[71]
• Stephen Colbert, Emmy Award winning comedian^[5][6][7]
• Anderson Cooper, Emmy Award television personality, new anchor author and author^[72]
• Rivers Cuomo, musician^[73][74]
• Felicia Day, actress^[75]
• Judi Dench, actress^[76]
• Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer^[65]
• Vin Diesel, actor^[5][6][7]
• Cory Doctorow, blogger, journalist, novelist, co-editor of the blog Boing Boing^[65]
• Lexa Doig, actor^[77]
• Tim Duncan, two time NBA MVP winning professional basketball player^[78]
• Jon Favreau, actor, screenwriter and director^[61]
• James Franco, actor, author, director^[79]
• Ethan Gilsdorf, author, poet, teacher and journalist^[80]
• Michael Gove, conservative politician, journalist and author^[81]
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor^[82]
• Matt Groening, Emmy Award winning cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer^[83]
• Sasha Grey, AVN Award winning porn star^[84]
• Chris Hardwick, actor, writer and comedian^[85]
• Tim Harford, economist and journalist^[81]
• Brent Hartinger, author and playwright^[86]
• Dan Harmon, writer, performer and producer^[87]
• Dwayne Johnson, actor and professional wrestler^[88]
• Kimberly Kane, pornographic actress and director^[89]
• Paul S. Kemp, author^[90]
• Stephen King, author^[91]
• Matthew Lillard, actor^[5][6]
• David Lindsay-Abaire, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright and lyricist^[92]
• Michelle Malkin, conservative columnist^[93]
• Marilyn Manson, musician^[94]
• Robert MacNaughton, actor^[29]
• George R. R. Martin, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and television producer^[65]
• Sharon McCrumb, novelist^[65]
• China Miéville, author^[95]
• John J. Miller, political reporter^[62]
• David Mitchell, novelist ^[96]
• Moby, musician^[5]
• Tom Morello, musician^[97]
• Elon Musk, entrepreneur, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors^[98]
• Mike Myers, actor^[9]
• Steven Novella, podcast host, writer^[99]
• Alexis Ohanian, entrepreneur, investor^[100]
• Patton Oswalt, actor and comedian^[8][85]
• Trey Parker, creator of South Park^[101]
• Brian Posehn, actor and comedian^[85]
• Bruce Reyes-Chow, Presbyterian minister, writer^[102]
• John C. Reilly, theater actor, singer, and comedian^[103]
• Ed Robertson, musician^[104]
• R.A. Salvatore, fantasy novelist^[105]
• Curt Schilling, baseball player, sports broadcaster^[106]
• Kevin Smith, actor and director^[107]
• Zak Smith, artist and alternative porn star^[108]
• Steven Spielberg, film director, producer, screenwriter^[109]
• Scott Stossel, editor of The Atlantic, author^[65]
• Rider Strong, actor^[110]
• Karl Urban, actor^[111]
• Mark Tremonti, musician^[112]
• Varg Vikernes, musician^[113]
• Gerard Way, musician^[83]
• Chris Weitz, producer, writer, director and actor^[60]
• Wil Wheaton, actor^[7][114]
• Joss Whedon, writer and director^[115]
• Robin Williams, Grammy, Emmy, and Oscar award winning actor and comedian^[5]
• Daniel H. Wilson, author, television host, and robotics engineer^[116]
• Rainn Wilson, actor^[117]
• Deborah Ann Woll, actress^[118]
• John Yuan, actor^[119]
• Matthew Yuan, actor^[119]

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