Tuesday, May 8, 2018

An Infographic for D&D


What is Dungeons and Dragons?
The first Dungeons & Dragons game was played back when Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson chose to personalize the massive battles of their fantasy wargames with the exploits of individual heroes. This inspiration became the first fantasy roleplaying game, in which players are characters in an ongoing fantasy story. This new kind of game has become immensely popular over the years, and D&D has grown to include many new ways to vividly experience worlds of heroic fantasy.

The core of D&D is storytelling. You and your friends tell a story together, guiding your heroes through quests for treasure, battles with deadly foes, daring rescues, courtly intrigue, and much more. You can also explore the world of Dungeons & Dragons through any of the novels written by its fantasy authors, as well as engaging board games and immersive video games. All of these stories are part of D&D.”-Overview from official D&D website (http://dnd.wizards.com/dungeons-and-dragons/what-is-dd)

My Organization:

-Is a loose collective of good friends with a passion for the storytelling/roleplaying enabled by roleplaying tabletop systems such as D&D. However, our storytelling/roleplaying activities are not limited to D&D. By way of explaining our history, we also enjoy:Call of Cthulhu


-Based on the horror fiction of 20th Century American writer H.P. Lovecraft
(Stranger Things owes a great deal of its popularity to Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos, as this pair of pictures might suggest)








Pathfinder

-An offshoot of traditional D&D for players looking for more technical depth


All of these systems are frequently referred to as D&D, purely as shorthand for the sake of convenience.

Our Mission Statement:

-Our organization is centered around the premise that a group of friends can take time out of their busy lives to meet once a week to tell amazing stories together. Moreover, we hold that tabletop roleplaying is a means by which each of us can explore who we are by stepping into the shoes of the characters we create.

Pedagogical Potential:
-Our organization holds that D&D has potential as a pedagogical tool for encouraging students to experience history, not as a collection of dates and names, but as a dynamic, unfolding story. The future teachers among us practice this craft for that very purpose. New scenarios and in-game mechanics are continually being re-worked to incorporate a sense of historical realism.

There is also significant potential for D&D as a tool for psychological development/therapy. We hold that the Jungian archetypes and the notion of the Shadow Self anticipated this very form of roleplaying, whereby a person can give voice to the depths of their personal being in a safe and friendly environment governed by rules and possibility.

Our Symbol:

-Our organization makes use of 4, 6, 8, 10, and 20 sides dice. They represent for our the unpredictable dynamism of the story; it can (and often does) flow in a direction none of us anticipated. We open ourselves to chance and possibility in storytelling.


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