Redditor /u/PattonPending and their friends taught their commanding officer, a captain in the US Army, how to play Dungeons & Dragons. They wanted to schedule a campaign, but there were multiple scheduling conflicts. So the officer simply ordered the players to attend. Now playing Dungeons & Dragons wasn't simply an opportunity for them; it was a requirement under Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
/u/PattonPending assures us that the captain meant the memo as a joke and wouldn't actually make Dungeons & Dragons mandatory.
Read the whole thread for a lot of funny tabletop role-playing games stories from veterans.
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I wonder what would happen if the senior officer present isn't the DM, but one of the players, and the DM makes a questionable call.
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Its only sort of a joke. By putting the named participants under orders, they now have a very military excuse to get out of whatever is preventing them from getting together. A noncom or junior officer can't grab those guys for random duties as assigned, because they're under orders from the CPT. Even if a MAJ or LTC tries to grab them, they can say "Sir I am under orders to report to the CPT at 1200" and the MAJ will probably let them go.
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