"Fear not, your romantic delusions are safe with me."
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"Aren't games fun?"
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"You find yourself on a battlefield: a barrage of arrows rain down on you. If you roll a fifteen or higher, the shield protects you, fourteen or lower, and, well, haha, you get the idea!"

Dungeons and Dragons and Discord?? Yes, please!

Heading into this episode, I knew that I always get more excited than I should about 1) D&D things, and 2) Discord, so I tried to lower my expectations before I got started. I did, and in the end, I got an enjoyable episode, that, as suspected, didn't have as much D&D stuff in it as I had hoped, but was still fun to watch and had me wanting more.

I think there was potential here for a better episode with the same "Don't knock it 'til you try it" lesson, but they spent a little too much time showing characters hemming and hawing and not enough time giving Discord, Big Mac, and Spike the chance to actually begin enjoying the game together, with a little Discord twist. I kept waiting and waiting for the episode to really get into full swing, but it just...didn't, really.
I also feel like the points between "I'm bored of this," "I'm angry," and "please take me back" were a bit quick, and the whole "I'm cooler than you guys" theme was kind of unnecessary.

I suppose I'm picky though. I headed into this episode hoping to see more of Discord controlling a chaotic D&D (O&O?) version of Equestria, with more regular characters converted into the rpg genre,* with cool visuals and animations beyond the underwhelming paper cutouts that were used.
More than that, though, I would have liked to see the three guys slowly beginning to enjoy the discord-ified game, as well as each other's company, through little in-game victories...but hey, you can't always have your d20 and crit it, too.

What did you think of this episode? Do you play D&D? Would you like to see this game/topic come up again?

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