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“I was committed to staying with Wizards until after D&D’s 50th anniversary, which gave me lots of time to work on succession planning and exit strategies,” Perkins said.

“Chris and I talked about his retirement plan for years, so his approaching departure was long on my mind. When we sent the new D&D rule books to the printer last year, I felt it was time to explore a new chapter for myself,” Crawford said.

I later learned that there’s a whole genre of D&D podcasts.

Maybe it’s that Dungeons & Daddies essentially ignores real complex gameplay in favor of creating chaos; maybe it was that I had room for only one D&D podcast in my life.

The conceit is this: A group of comedians play a D&D campaign as different kinds of suburban dads trying to rescue their sons, who have been transported into a magical high-fantasy realm on the way to a soccer tournament.