D20 Arabia - D&D in Saudi Arabia
Just found out that a new board game cafe that includes weekly D&D. They are the first of their kind in my city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. They provide fully instructive games to any new players and are trying to popularise Dungeons & Dragons in Saudi Arabia. I tried to get into an introductory game just to see what they're like, but they're fully booked, unfortunately. They have a twitter that is very passionate about D&D and they were announcing that they plan on hosting a LARP fully in Arabic.
Jeddah is no stranger to nerd culture. Some of my oldest memories as a kid include Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, and Beyblade tournaments. Anime was one of the biggest forms of entertainment. captain Tsubasa named captain Majid over here was one of the biggest cultural moments of my youth. UFO Robot Grendizer was one of the most popular reruns during the 80s. Cartoon channels had mostly western cartoons (Tom and Jerry, Felix the cat, looney tunes) and a lot of anime (Case Closed was particularly popular; called Detective Conan in the Middle East).
Below are the twitter and website for an Arabian group that is dedicated to promoting D&D in the Middle East.
https://twitter.com/d20arabia?lang=en
About the Author
Omar is a member of the RPG Research staff in the role of research assistant.
He has been with RPG Research since August 2018. He is volunteer number 32 of more than 55 RPG Research volunteers worldwide.
He resides in Saudi Arabia but travels frequently around world.
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