Dungeons & Dragons turns 50 this year. Here’s what the game has meant to you.

Dungeons & Dragons turns 50 this year. Here’s what the game has meant to you. The first edition of tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons was released 50 years ago this year. Since then, the game’s publisher, Wizards of the Coast, estimates that over 50 million people have played. And it’s changed a lot since 1974. It was a pastime of nerds in the ‘80s and in part fueled the “Satanic Panic,” a time when concerned parents and news outlets linked the game teen killings and witchcraft. It’s become more...