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Conclash - Inside the World's Largest D&D Game
In May 2023, 1,227 players sat down at roughly 200 tables in a Provo, Utah mall and played one four-hour game of Dungeons & Dragons together, setting the Guinness World Record for the largest D&D game ever played. We know because we ran it. The event grew into an annual festival (1,475 players the following year), picked up the name Conclash, and became the strangest, loudest thing we do all year. Here's what a world-record D&D game actually looks like from inside, and how you get a seat.
How 1,200 people play one game
Not as chaos, surprisingly. The structure is a faction megabattle: every table is a squad fighting for one of several factions, every squad's session is a real D&D game with its own GM, and every table's outcomes feed a live scoreboard that the whole hall can see. Your table's dead necromancer is a point on a screen the size of a storefront.
The event runs in acts. Early sessions shift faction standings and unlock story consequences; the finale is a coordinated final battle where hundreds of tables resolve the same climactic scene at once and the aggregate decides how the year's story ends. It's the living campaign idea compressed from a season into a weekend, at maximum volume.
What makes it work mechanically is boring and crucial: an army of GMs running tight, timeboxed sessions, standardized characters so any player fits any table, and scorekeepers feeding the board. What makes it work emotionally is the roar. When an act ends and the standings flip, a mall full of people reacts like a stadium. D&D is not supposed to have crowd noise. It's incredible.
From Dead Wars to Conclash
The event began as The Dead Wars, set in our Spearfall world (where history itself is dated from the first Dead Wars; the lore commitment runs deep), and the record attempt was staged at Provo Towne Centre, the same mall that houses our tavern store. After the record and a bigger second year, the festival took the name Conclash and kept growing: multiple days, side events, vendors, and a story that carries forward year to year.
News coverage from the record year is a fun rabbit hole (local TV, campus papers, and one lovely Medium essay by a participant titled "What I learned from 1,227 players in the world's largest D&D game"). The short version of what we learned: tabletop scales, community is the actual product, and 200 GMs in one building is the most concentrated dose of the hobby on earth.
How to actually play in it
Conclash happens annually in May in Provo. Tickets and event details run through the LPG events hub (Legion Player Games, our large-scale event system with squads and divisions), and seats genuinely sell; the record wasn't a stunt so much as a symptom. Brand-new players are welcome and common: standardized characters mean a first-timer contributes to the war effort exactly as well as a veteran, and squads mix experience levels on purpose.
Can't wait for May? The factions don't sleep: the same shared world runs year-round at both stores and online, and the players at any store table will absolutely tell you their Conclash war stories. Bring dice. Pick a faction. Become a statistic on a very large screen.
Frequently asked questions
What is the world record for the largest D&D game?
1,227 players playing simultaneously, set in May 2023 at We Geek Together's Dead Wars event in Provo, Utah, verified by Guinness World Records. The following year's event drew 1,475 players.
What is Conclash?
The annual tabletop festival that grew out of the Dead Wars record: a multi-day, faction-based megagame in Provo each May, where hundreds of tables play one shared D&D story with live scoring, plus side events and vendors.
Can beginners play at Conclash?
Yes, by design: characters are standardized, squads mix veterans with first-timers, and each table has its own GM. It's simultaneously the biggest and one of the most beginner-absorbent D&D events anywhere.
How does one D&D game work across hundreds of tables?
Faction structure: each table is a squad whose session outcomes feed a live scoreboard, acts advance a shared story, and a coordinated finale resolves across all tables at once. Any single table plays like a normal (excellent, slightly frantic) D&D session.
How do I get Conclash tickets?
Through the Legion Player Games events hub on Dice Outpost, where large-scale events list their divisions and squads. Follow the stores' announcements; the big events genuinely fill.