Two things I learned in 2018:
1. Don’t ask people what they do for a living. Ask what keeps them busy. That lets people talk about what’s really important to them.
2. Don’t use analogies to explain things. You won’t get far explaining something by making it into something else.
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) January 1, 2019
Serious question @mikemearls : How do you explain D&D to someone totally unfamiliar with it without analogies? Would love to be better at explaining my favorite hobby. 🙂 This is what I’d say: It’s a game where each player creates a persona in a fantasy world, and one player, the DM, creates that fantasy world. The action is all improvised, with the DM judging the chance that something might happen and the players rolling dice to see how it goes.
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) January 1, 2019