DnD is a great game to play any time of year, but especially during the summer. Odds are, your friends are freer than they are other times of the year, the weather is unbearably hot outside, so you might as well be inside, and it’s perfect Orc season. What’s the perfect Orc season, you ask? It’s the time of year when the Orcs come out to play. You know it when you see it.

Playing DnD is a wonderful way to tap into the mystic side of life. Maybe you work a boring job in a boring office, and there’s not much sizzle in your life. But when you start playing DnD, you stop seeing the world as boring and start seeing it as full of possibilities. You start thinking of spells you could cast to get yourself out of long meetings. You start growing a beard so you can go full bard-mode.