Table Game to Understand Humans

Human Understanding Table Game is a CD drama story of the Overlord series. It was released alongside Overlord Volume 10.

Main Summary
Ainz Ooal Gown tries to play a tabletop game with the Floor Guardians to help them understand humans better.

Full Summary
Ainz Ooal Gown sneaks into the library to return his borrowed business books. He complains that all this sneaking around is stressing him and that should be relaxing. Ainz knows he can’t do that as Nazarick will be engaging more actively in the New World. The fact that many in Nazarick look down on humans doesn’t help. Majority of his subjects hold the image that humans are weak, which Ainz believes It is dangerous to underestimate them.

Ainz hopes he can change their views, and stumbles upon an old rulebook to a table game. Reading it, the Overlord gets an idea.

Later Ainz summons, Albedo, Demiurge, Shalltear Bloodfallen, Aura Bella Fiora And Mare Bello Fioreella to his chambers. On the pretense as an exercise to understand humans, Ainz has the four play the table game: Hack And Slash Adventure. Some of the Floor Guardians query why it would be necessary to understand humans as they believe them to be nothing special. Ainz explains it would allow the Guardians to understand their temperament and special features, their strengths and weaknesses. He further points the existence of various powers which Nazarick knew nothing about that humans in the world possess: Martial Arts and Talents. In addition he also referenced Shalltear's own unfortunate experience.

Demiurge understand his master's intentions to provide the Guardians a way to ascertain humanity's abilities so as that in the future the Floor Guardians will not expose any weaknesses for them to exploit. Realizing wisdome in his words, the Guardians agree to play.

The game is then set each Floor Guardian taking a role as a human with a specific class. Aura becomes a Thief. Mare becomes a Priest. Shalltear becomes a Mystic Warrior. Demiurge becomes a Magic Caster. Albedo becomes a Warrior.

Trivia

 * Given that Ainz returned the business books he got from the library, it can be assumed that the time period of the CD Drama takes place after Overlord Blu-ray 01 Special.