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The Dungeon Masters

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The Dungeon Masters

The Dungeon Masters explores the subculture of role-playing games, specifically Dungeons & Dragons, which for over 30 years has offered gamers the chance to escape their mundane lives and participate in a world they might otherwise never experience. Popularity and power are based on creativity and imagination rather than social status or wealth, and success is based not on who you know but on what you do.

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Avatar of lastninja80
5 months ago
I wish it relied less on stereotypes and more on the good aspects of roleplaying games. I liked the film but it was more a portrayal of three troubled souls rather than a film about RPGs. I´m a long time Dungeon Master myself, and I can´t relate to these guys at all :) I hope someday they make a documentary about my RPG crowd, so we can convince some people it´s not always about escapism and antisocial behaviour.
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Avatar of Pritams
3 months ago
I really liked this documentary because it includes the personal aspects of interesting people.

Because of the nature of roleplaying, escapism is inevitable and if not the roleplaying will be of very poor quality, as with anything.
And escapism isn't necessarily a bad thing, people do disappear into things they enjoy, escaping the real world for a second.

Antisocial behaviour is something else but also not necessarily bad.

I don't see how this documentary could be any better.
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Avatar of MegaRichards
3 months ago
As the other reviewers have mentioned already the RPG scene provides the back drop to a year in the life of three people, each in their own way working their ways through issues with role playing as a fixed point. If you didn't know anything about Table Role Play gaming then it does introduce you to some of the aspects of the sub culture. More importantly the documentary makers were able to convey the humanity of each of the individuals in the film, individuals who would be considered on the periphery of main stream society. From that peripheral view point it is possible to look back at main stream culture and see it de-familiarized. If that kind of re-visioning is what you look for in a documentary, rather than a stream of facts, you will enjoy watching this film.
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