# The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons & Dragons | The New Yorker

<https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-uncanny-resurrection-of-dungeons-and-dragons>

- Host: [newyorker.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/newyorker.com/)
- Saved: October 27, 2017 (2017-10-28T00:41:52Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4c71c096da6d/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4c71c096da6d.json

## What Jamie wrote

I played D&D when I was a kid, the original version of the game. I was a bit young though and only knew a couple other kids who were into it again. I played again in college and had many long, long evenings with campaigns. I always play a Wizard. Usually good.

> Then, a fifth edition of D. & D. rules came out, in 2014, and, somehow, the culture was receptive again to bags of holding and silver-haired drow. People started buying up these volumes in droves. “More people are interested in D&D than we thought,” the game’s lead developer, Mike Mearls, said, as print runs repeatedly sold out. “Who are these people? What do they want?”

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT25: Weekly Thing for October 28, 2017](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/25/), Links 📌

## Same host

- [Donald Trump’s Exploitation of Orlando](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/18b95b16b997/) (newyorker.com, June 13, 2016)
- [The New Yorker Endorses Hillary Clinton](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8670a5720b85/) (newyorker.com, October 26, 2016)
- [An American Tragedy - The New Yorker](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/811ffa1fd83e/) (newyorker.com, November 9, 2016)
- [Why Do We Care So Much About Privacy? | The New Yorker](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/df3fd0bf5c65/) (newyorker.com, June 14, 2018)
- [Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us? | The New Yorker](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c3d3734d9016/) (newyorker.com, May 18, 2019)

## Saved the same week

- [Facebook's arrogant and patronizing statement about changes to the News Feed - without bullshit](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/63cd1d8ed2f0/) (withoutbullshit.com, October 27, 2017)
- [The Rising Stakes in SaaS](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7abe2c869ffb/) (tomtunguz.com, October 27, 2017)
- [profiling: An interactive continuous Python profiler.](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6a4ca70aaaa1/) (github.com, October 28, 2017)
- [TwilioQuest, the Fastest Way to Learn Twilio](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1d3b50b925d0/) (twilio.com, October 28, 2017)
- [DNS records lookup ~ dnsrecords.io](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/57e1a0ca52f4/) (dnsrecords.io, October 28, 2017)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-uncanny-resurrection-of-dungeons-and-dragons