Written by Annabelle Kruskie and Phoenix Comstock
“[D&D] is like a fun roleplaying game where you can hang out with your friends, make a character, and go on fun adventures,” explains junior, Paula Lomeli, as she considers what makes Dungeons and Dragons such a captivating game.
Created in 1974 by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in Lake Geneva, WI, the game has garnered massive popularity and has had a club here at ITA for years. In Mr. Connors’s room after school on Fridays, the D&D Club is thriving as a place for people to hang out and play the world-renowned tabletop fantasy role-playing game.
For some people, like the resident game master senior Devin Deline, the game’s role is to allow people to “create their own sense of reality” for themselves. D&D is played with a set of polyhedral dice and each individual player’s character sheet, with the statistics for each character inscribed on the sheet. The game master, also known as a “DM”, will describe a scenario to the players, and it’ll be up to the players to decide how to react.
In this campaign or game session, Deline describes a world where “the gods have disappeared completely” and it is “run by an overbearing government.” The club itself changed locations because of the length of time it was originally set up to be, which was only 45 minutes on Thursdays, in the library, and after school.
With some teacher involvement, the club swapped locations and dates. Currently, it runs in room 1309 from 2-4 on Fridays. If anybody wishes to stop by and join the quest, everyone is welcome!