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Dimension 20’s sold-out show at MSG shines a light on decades of TTRPG performance
- Live, in-person role-playing game performances are becoming increasingly popular across the globe with some of the shows breaking records in terms of their scope and scale.
- Critical Role, which is celebrating its first decade, is expected to draw big crowds.
- Meanwhile, Dimension 20 has already begun touring the West Coast, having already held a sold-out show for nearly 20,000 fans at Madison Square Garden.
- Before the success of online actual play shows, there were decades of people playing role-playing games offline, for audiences in different venues across the globe.
- Some examples of such performances were run at colleges such as Hampshire College’s Deathfest and at conventions including Allan Goodall’s Call of Cthulhu game at Necronomicon.
- In addition, bars, comedy clubs, and other spaces have been used for improvised gameplay performances.
- Fringe festivals, which usually showcase small-scale and experimental performances, have also been used as venues.
- It is still difficult to trace the history of role-playing games in live theatrical performance and more work needs to be done to uncover forgotten shows.
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