By Rena Ketelsen – Dorms and Dragons is a student group which is organized by David Elder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This group is split up into smaller groups that meet on a weekly basis to play Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). According to Elder, this semester has 30 to 40 students with six running campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is Elder\u2019s second year of organizing Dorms and Dragons. He explained that he used to play it during is own college time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dungeons and Dragons is essentially a tabletop roleplay game. There is a so-called Dungeon Master who prepares a story and there are several players who each play a different character. They play that story but are able to improvise and change it as well. The game can be played on a board with a map but it can also be played without that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elder summarized that the game \u201cis a lot about imagination and storytelling and also rolling some dice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He thinks that this game is fun to play because people enjoy the idea of roleplaying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One thing that stands out to him about the game is that many different types of people play the game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eli Werden, the president of the student group, is a sophomore and this is his second year participating in Dorms and Dragons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Werden explained that the game is fun because \u201c[\u2026] instead of having to imagine what it would be like to be in a fantastical world, they [people] get to actively live it and create it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He recounts one of his most memorable experiences from the last year when he was playing a monk and did things that a monk most certainly wouldn\u2019t do. Among other things, he became a vampire and watched his party burn down a village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elder explained, \u201cThey [the players] can really do anything in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to him, Dungeons and Dragons was very popular a few years ago. Then it lost some of that popularity but there are more people now who are playing it again, perhaps because of the TV show Stranger Things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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