History Recap / CommunityS5E10AdvancedAdvancedDungeonsAndDragons

* TookALevelInBadass: Abed's dungeon mastering skills have certainly improved between the two episodes. In the previous one he was obviously new to it, even letting Pierce get away with the most obvious metagaming in history, but in this one he is a very competent storyteller and arbitrator, taking the game more seriously than anyone else (besides [[LargeHam the Dean]].

* JerkassHasAPoint: Hank's refusal to play along with the D&D game is frequently petty, but he has accurately figured out that the group has no real interest in playing the game and is just trying to unsubtly manipulate and force him into a reunion with his father that he has no interest in. He also notes that the group hasn't heard his side of the story regarding his relationship with Hickey and claims that he has entirely valid reasons not to want anything to do with his dad.

* GenreBlind:
** The group tries to make a D&D game specifically to reunite Hickey and Hank by making Abed the DM. But of course, he ignores their pleas to modify the game and stays impartial. As Abed points out at the beginning, they also fail to remember that last time they tried to use a D&D game to solve someone's issues it didn't exactly go the way they were anticipating either.
** Hickey is this at the game, justified since it's his first time playing. He plays recklessly and ends up getting Shirley killed. He quickly learns his lesson though and plays a lot more competently for the rest of the game.

** Hank, being a seasoned D&D player, knows how to play the game quite well as he healed his comrades soon after the bridge collapsed (something Hickey failed to do). He also knew that the Sky Spiders were simply misunderstood and had them help him in his quest; and also realizes immediately that the game is a trick to get him and his father to bond (especially since their characters are father & son), and has the group switch characters.

* [[BlackDudeDiesFirst Black Woman Dies First]]: Shirley.

!!The ''{{Community}}'' episode Advanced Advanced Dungeons And Dragons provides examples of:

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: This being Abed naturally, his D&D world is meticulously planned out. To the point where he even created intricate backstories for two random hobgoblin [[{{Mooks}} mooks]] and the LoveTriangle between them in case they ever got interrogated.

** He also reacts as any experienced role-player probably did to Abed's frankly [[{{Railroading}} atrocious]] [[ClicheStorm gamemastering]] in the original D&D episode.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: This being Abed naturally, his D&D world is meticulously planned out. To the point where he even created intricate backstories for two random Goblin [[{{Mooks}} mooks]] and the LoveTriangle between them in case they ever got interrogated.

** The goblins that Abed role-plays, Golback and Kling, are embroiled in a love triangle over a female goblin called... Lisa.

** He also reacts as any experienced role-player would to Abed's frankly [[{{Railroading}} atrocious]] [[ClicheStorm gamemastering.]]

* CassandraTruth: When the group decides to reunite the Hickeys with ''Dungeons and Dragons'', everyone ignores Abed pointing out that [[Recap/CommunityS2E14AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons things didn't exactly work out as planned last time]]. True to form, things don't work out as planned this time.

* CassandraTruth: When the group decides to reunite the Hickeys with Dungeons and Dragons, everyone ignores Abed pointing out that [[Recap/CommunityS2E14AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons things didn't exactly work out as planned last time]]. True to form, things don't work out as planned this time.

* WhatAnIdiot: In-universe; when Abed reveals that the Necromancer has fled the castle, Hickey and Hank protest over the fact that there's NoEnding. Abed caustically points out that if a man is faced with two large groups of warriors at his front door loudly fighting for an hour over who gets to kill him, the fact that he might elect to quietly slip out the back while they're distracted shouldn't come as too big a surprise.

* OffingTheOffspring: Jeff, as "Sir Riggs Diehard" kills his son "Joseph Gordon" played by the Dean, by plunging his imaginary sword through him when he tries to go in for a hug.

* SeriousBusiness: The Dean ''really'' gets into his role as Joseph Gordon Diehard.

** Abed notes that the study group seems to view ''Dungeons and Dragons'' as a way of reprogramming people's minds and argues that it's not quite as simple as that, pointing out that they almost ended up driving someone to suicide last time. Like the previous D&D game they played, the study group's initially rather simplistic plan of letting the person they're trying to 'reprogram' win the game and thus, in their minds, instantly solving their problems is waylaid by unforeseen complications, but the way the game actually progresses ends up improving things for the better anyway. Abed also seems aware of this, judging from some of his pointed comments to Hickey and Hank during the game.

** Abed notes that the study group seems to view ''Dungeons and Dragons'' as a way of reprogramming people's minds and argues that it's not quite as simple as that, pointing out that they almost ended up driving someone to suicide last time. Like the previous D&D game they played, the study group's initially rather simplistic plan of letting the person they're trying to 'reprogram' win the game and thus, in their minds, instantly solving their problems is waylaid by unforeseen complications, but the way the game actually progresses ends up improving things for the better anyway.

*** (Making uppercut motion) I SHOVE IT UP THEM!!

* HiddenDepths:
** Gruff macho-man Hickey gets on much better with his openly gay son than he does with his straight son.
** Hank apparently sings in Elvish.