Some friends and I dove into D & D during the pandemic. I have some improv and writing background (I’m an English teacher), so I took on the DM role. I honestly

Some friends and I dove into D & D during the pandemic. I have some improv and writing background (I’m an English teacher), so I took on the DM role. I honestly was not prepared for the depth of complexity and time investment to faithfully play the game. In the end, we stripped away entire parts of the rule book and made the game more role play focused; it’s not fun to be constantly referencing the rule book, but there was also a sense that we weren’t really playing D&D.