Engaging in video games entails staying indoors for extended periods of time. However, Samir Alam aka Dungeon Master Sam and his team at Panic Not — India's first community platform for the role-playing table-top game, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) — would disagree as they prepare for the fourth edition of Dungeons & Dragons Weekend, a convention where regular players and newbies meet, socialise and, of course, play the game.

The team has been hosting the event since October, on the last Sunday of every month. What started with six people coming together in 2017 is today a community of around 200 enthusiasts nationwide, with about 100 from Mumbai alone.