TCR Talks with Samuel Sattin, author of Side Quest

By Kevin Morales Samuel Sattin has been playing tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) like Dungeons & Dragons since he was an adolescent. The game and others like it have slowly expanded into the mainstream since the 1970s. The connection of communities has grown thanks to the proliferation of the internet and the game finding its way into the homes of anyone who watched Stranger Things on Netflix, or the players of the popular Baldur’s Gate video games. Time Magazine also recently published a massive edition in honor of Dungeons & Dragons’ 50th anniversary. But where did this game come from? How…