{"id":13203,"date":"2016-12-07T14:41:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=13203"},"modified":"2016-12-07T14:41:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:41:55","slug":"dungeons-and-dragons-how-introverts-become-extroverts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/dungeons-and-dragons-how-introverts-become-extroverts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dungeons and Dragons: How Introverts Become Extroverts."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"m_8574191356137328659gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">Have you ever wanted to embrace your inner barbarian or perhaps get involved in a role-playing game?\u00a0 Do you long for the medieval days?<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"m_8574191356137328659gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">Reporter: Gabrielle Espinet | \u00a0Subeditor: Yasmin Jeffery<\/h3>\n<p class=\"m_8574191356137328659gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">If you are up for a fantasy Middle Ages war game where you can embrace various characters, let us introduce you to role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons. \u00a0The game revolves around storytelling; it is a quest for heroes and their ultimate goal of finding hidden treasure and overcoming obstacles along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_8574191356137328659gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">It is interesting to see how the demographic of the game has evolved. \u00a0Stated on the box is the target audience of the game, individuals ages 10+. \u00a0However, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/rpg\/comments\/202z3m\/last_week_i_asked_you_to_take_a_survey_today_ill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit<\/a> survey has shown that nearly 75% of Dungeons and Dragons players are 25-39 years old.\u00a0\u00a0So where has this growth stemmed from?<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/296665233&#8243; params=&#8221;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&#8221; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;166&#8243; iframe=&#8221;true&#8221; \/]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wanted to embrace your inner barbarian or perhaps get involved in a role-playing game?\u00a0 Do you long for the medieval days? Reporter: Gabrielle Espinet | \u00a0Subeditor: Yasmin Jeffery If you are up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":13210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[1950,1983,2232,3202],"class_list":["post-13203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radio","tag-dragons","tag-dungeons","tag-extroverts","tag-introverts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}