If you want to know what a whole Dungeons & Dragons session looks like at 100x speed, we’ve got the video for you.
D&D is not a fast game. Sessions can last for hours with whole games lasting years, and players and DMs come and go throughout. They’re like living things that change with the times, and nothing shows how much something can change like a good time-lapse video.
We have Reddit user Andreanocera to thank for posting this four minute video on the r/DnD subreddit which condenses an entire four hour session into a super-fast gif. Their playgroup has a whopping 7 players and one lonely DM playing in a crowded kitchen with a good assortment of pencils, pens, paper, and portable devices to keep them gaming well into the night.
The guy on the end seems to be the techie of the group. He uses a tablet instead of the usual pencil and paper, and he also sets up a portable speaker for some (presumably) intense combat tunes. Most everyone else has pencils and large notepads, but some also break out their phones for some technological augmentation.
As noted in the top comment, the DM is constantly up and about, moving player tokens or enemy figures, and helping players with rules and decision making. "The thrill of DMing keeps me from sitting like a normal human being lol," notes the DM in the comments section.
About halfway through comes the most exciting time in any D&D session: Pizza Break! A few pies seem to make their way around the table as everyone chows down, and then it's back to the game. You can see cheers, laughs, a few bathroom breaks, and then a final huzzah before folks start packing their bags to head home.
If it were my D&D session, there’d also be a bag of chips and a bloodstain from where the DM murdered one of our previous players who insisted on playing a screeching Kobold. We took that as an abject lesson to never mess with our DM again.
Source: Reddit