D&D is a wild experience when you’re invested, you’re simultaneously playing a game, creating a narrative, and become a fandom??? so you and your friends can talk for hours about your characters and theories while guarding character secrets to not spoil anything and then think ‘i can’t wait for the next episode’, while knowing you’ll actually be collaboratively generating content, but are still like ‘i cant believe my dumbass child did that’
My absolute favorite is when a character just does something that surprises me like (most recently) huh, okay, you’re into the cute captain of the guard? Okay girl I gotchu, will relay that to the DM and see if we can’t get something going