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The Biggest Live Game of ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Ever Played

Dimension 20 is a show where Dungeons and Dragons plays out for an audience in real time. They recently sold out Madison Square Garden.

t’s a frosty January night in New York City, but Madison Square Garden is red hot. You feel the heat when pillars of flame spit out from black butane tanks that encircle a half-domed stage. The thunder of swag rock is drowned out by the dog-whistle cheers of 20,000 people alive with electricity. Under the tiled roof where Knicks and Rangers banners hang, between walls that often echo with Billy Joel and Taylor Swift, an epic game of Dungeons & Dragons played by Dimension 20 is about to get rolling.

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