COVE

Though Dungeons and Dragons can be enhanced digitally through filming artistry and artwork, and immersive through playing with smaller groups in person, Dimension 20 has recently proven that even captivating a room full of 20,000 people with oral and Gothically-rooted story and playing Dungeons and Dragons is possible. With nothing but themselves, a few visuals of character art, and some pyrotechnics, they kept a packed Madison Square Garden on their toes and with attention raptured. This is due, in large part, to many of the evocative tropes of the Gothic being used, twisted, and reformed to create in-depth characters, settings, worlds, and monsters in a new and exciting way. Through using these older tropes and harkening to a more magical world, this group of people has managed to interrogate our current world in topical and fresh ways, similarly to the way that the original Gothic interacted with the Industrial Revolution.