Re: [Rolling Stone] Inside the Biggest Live Game of ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Ever Played

On 3/8/2025 10:43 PM, David Chmelik wrote:

On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 16:07:58 +0100, Kyonshi wrote:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/dungeons-and-dragons-

dimension-20-madison-square-garden-1235258992/
 Article saya 'Inside the Biggest Live Game of ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Ever
Played' but 'live' can mean 'in real life (IRL)', 'live performance',
'broadcast live' so I doubt it, as biggest live (IRL, 50+ players, 500+
characters) is surely famous one continued since 1982 Dungeon Master (DM)
Robert Wardhaugh has table with many miniatures, dioramas, and if player
characters die without kids (or successors in case of celibate clerics,
monastics, paladins, etc.) player must quit... you've probably heard/seen
about it ( Wikipedia.org , YouTube.com).  Maybe game Rolling Stone
magazine mentions had largest audience, but who knows whether it's largest
D&D group broadcast live either?

Interesting point.
I played in an AD&D game with 50 players, a whole bunch of DMs (which technically raises the count too) at a local con one time.  It was kind of like playing by mail as turns were written down and handed in, and took forever, everyone except the DMs were playing other games, and the DMs were running the results and calling over players to the table with the battle on it after their last turn was resolved to write down their next one.
It was PVP arena.  I was 2nd to last to die as a max level monk (becasue I mostly just ran away from everyone at my insane speed, I did use quivering palm on someone though!) the max level druid won.
--
-Justisaur
  ø-ø
(\_/)\
  `-'\ `--.___,
   ¶¬'\( ,_.-'
        \
        ^'