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Could D&D Help Fight Screen Addiction? | Full Report

Season 1 Episode 2

D&D, once at the center of a moral panic, is now seen as an antidote to screen addiction.

Parents worry about the latest video games, like Fortnite. A generation ago, Dungeons and Dragons was the game that seemed like a menace. But in a surprising twist, its role-playing strategies are now seen as a counterbalance to the problem of screen addiction.

AIR DATE 10/8/19

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Retro Report makes sense of the present by revealing the past. Join journalists Celeste Headlee and Masud Olufani as they connect the present to the past through four distinct and varied stories, and New Yorker humorist Andy Borowitz adds his signature wit.

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