A friend just told me he plays Dungeons & Dragons.. I've never played this.. What is it like? What do you do??

Question

A friend just told me he plays Dungeons & Dragons.. I've never played this.. What is it like? What do you do??

Answer 1

It's a role playing game. You invent yourself a character with certain skills, and then that character explores a world managed by the person running the game. There are rules associated with how good your skills are which determine whether you will succeed in doing what you want to do (whether that is climbing a cliff, chatting up a girl, or fighting off a group of bad guys).

Yup, that's incredibly vague and general - your best bet is to Google it. It's not really something that can be explained in a few lines.