In a surprising move, David Simon is returning to his legendary series The Wire to produce a sixth season focusing on Baltimore’s thriving Dungeons and Dragons scene.
The Wire initially focused on a police department’s attempts to arrest a drugs gang, but then its scope expanded to examine politics, education, and journalism.
However, many people have thought that not including the same forensic examination of the city’s Dungeons and Dragons scene was a mistake.
“Yeah, I guess we dropped the ball on that one,” said Mr Simon, sheepishly.
“I mean, you want to really lay bare modern America, you need really get under the skin of a city’s Dungeons and Dragons scene.”
The season will focus on a group of Dungeons and Dragons enthusiasts who fall upon corruption in a local tourney and are faced with the dilemma of exposing the wrongdoing, and fatally damaging the credibility of the aging fantasy game, leading to the possibility or Warhammer taking it over as the leader fantasy game in the Baltimore area.
Alternatively, they keep quiet about the corruption, forever tainting Dungeons and Dragons for themselves.
“Yeah, it’s basically a metaphor for America,” continued Mr Simon
“But with loads of swearing.”
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