Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Bailiff Jesse Thorn, we're in chambers this week

clearing the docket. And with me, as always, is level 10 magic user. Judge John Hodgman,

I'm not 100% sure if that's a good level or a battle.

For the G-Mine, Bailiff, note us the carb I adorn mine self with today.

I don't know if I'm not going to go.

What are we doing?

It's just a sweatshirt. It is a sweatshirt from the no longer existing Cape

cod Colosseumahocchi, Ahocchi Arena and Cape cod. So I'm kind of like extinct

hockey, Renfair. Yeah. But I'm talking funny, of course, because today is our

much threatened Dungeons and Dragons slash role playing games dispute only episode of the Judge John

Hodgman podcast. And Jesse, you know, my experience with Dungeons and Dragons is minimal, very minimal.

So we decided to bring in what you call in the D&D game, a ringer. Yeah. Haza the ringer.

I mean, John, I have a lot of Dungeons and Dragons experience. What's your D&D X? What are your

exploits? I used to have a game called The Secret of the Silver Blades from my mom's IBM PC

with a CJA monitor, bringing back some different but similar memories of Damon Graff's mom's

digital equipment computer that we had to call into to play Zork 1. I have read between the ages

of eight and 12 in the aisles of various used bookstores in San Francisco's mission district,

including but not limited to art, vark books and dog eard books. Yeah. I read probably eight to

10 Dragon Lance novels, which are Dungeons and Dragons novels. Right. I don't remember anything about

them. And my babysitter, Darius De Belga-Dair was really into what's actually an L. Dragon's.

Was actually a ninth level Elven Cleric. He's just a guy with a lot of dice.

But sometimes he would say, don't write letters. I forgot. Elves don't have last names. I

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