The first time I ever played a board game I was about ten years old. The game was Monopoly and my parents thought it would be a great opportunity to bond as a family. They were wrong. Getting brutally bankrupted by my own father was a kind of cruelty I'd never experienced at the time, and I immediately craved revenge. Monopoly transformed me from an innocent child into a cynical monster who wanted to win at all costs, even if it meant driving the people closest to me into hypothetical poverty. I swore off board games after that, convinced that they were meant to make families turn against each other. But then one day, I found Dungeons & Dragons, a game all about cooperation, imagination, and collaboration. D&D taught me that multiplayer games aren't always designed to make players compete against each other. On the contrary, in D&D, if players don't work together, the whole game can fall apart.
We've put together another batch of the best D&D memes of the week in celebration of one of the best games of all time.