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"During the pandemic, one thing has become clear: the need for play is great
and can’t be denied. The nerds of yesteryear who played
Dungeons & Dragons,
grokked Spock, and looked for ways to express their geekiness, have found
themselves in this time, reaching out and finding their people online to resort
to playing a game they all knew well and loved
“I guess it all started in junior high for me. In the early 80s, I was part of
my ‘nerd crew,’”
Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp, who plays science
officer and chief engineer Paul Stamets in the science fiction franchise, tells
Den of Geek when we virtually sit down to discuss our mutual love for
Dungeons
& Dragons. “We were reading
Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and had our
own little weird literary magazine. We were playing computer games and I don’t
know who it was in our group who introduced it to us, but then
Dungeons &
Dragons became our thing. I was reading
The Hobbit and watching all the
Trek films and was a total comic nerd. All of it! We immediately fell in love
with the Advanced
D&D books like
The Monster Manual,
The Dungeon Master’s
Guide – and spent hours just reading through them.”
Like many of us, Rapp has found the time and space during the pandemic to
return to nerdy passions of his youth."
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