We take you inside the fun and fascinating world of role-playing games

Watch as Tyne Shears and Jack Pattison explain role-playing games.

Many of us have heard of RPG - role-playing games.

Dungeons and Dragons, perhaps the most well-known of them, features prominently in the Netflix smash hit Stranger Things.

At one point, they were even mixed up in the wholly unfounded 'Satanic Panic' paranoia of the 1980s.

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Inside the world of role-playing games. | National World

But for the people who play them, they're simply a chance to unwind and let loose their imaginations.

RPGs can seem very complex and confusing to the uninitiated.

Tyne Shears, co-owner of gaming shop and café The Gates of Cerberus in Middlesbrough, and Jack Pattison, a 'Dungeon Master' for a group in North Yorkshire, guide us through the basics.

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