(First, I would like to apologize to any non-Dungeons and Dragons fan reading this blog, as this blog will be around 80% DnD, as it is basically all I did today.)
Today is June 30th, a Sunday, which means we get the whole day off. I woke up at 7:30 am to the nth episode of a Dungeons and Dragons podcast blasting in my headphones (I fell asleep to the podcast the day before, trying to learn the game). I then went back to sleep and woke up at 9:30 am, because Sundays are the only days we get to sleep in. At around 10:30 I went down to the Hive to meet with the DnD group.
Today was my first day officially playing DnD. (Thank you, Sai and Michael, for introducing me to the game!) I quickly discovered how much fun it is, and I can’t believe I have never attempted to play it before. If you didn’t know already, DnD is a game centered on character and world-building by each player, and I happen to love creating original characters.
In our morning DnD session, Sai explained some game mechanics, such as spell casting, to new players (thank you again, Sai, for being so patient), and we finished creating our characters. My favorite has to be Eduardo’s character, Ian, based on our amazing GCSU TA Ian (Hi Ian, if you are reading this!). This DnD Ian is maxed out in charisma and high in wisdom and dexterity. However, Eduardo expresses his disappointment in being unable to max out all of his statistics to match the capabilities of the IRL Ian.
In our post-lunch session, our Dungeon Masters, Darnell and Sour, interviewed each of the players to gather information on the characters for world-building. That took quite a while so let’s fast forward to the SSP Ted Talks we had this afternoon! I thought the Ted Talks would be quite formal and academic, but it turned out to be very entertaining and lighthearted. My favorite talks included Sai’s condiment tier list (although honey deserved higher than B tier), Andria’s talk on “What would happen if you fill our solar system until Jupiter with soup?” and Jasmine’s talk on Girl Math (featuring Girl Math PSet). I regret not giving a Ted Talk myself, looking back on how much fun we had. My Ted Talk topic would’ve been on the grocery store company Albertsons, which apparently NO ONE (except for Aditya, thank you, Aditya!) in GCSU SSP knows about.
After the Ted Talks, we played some more DnD (finally getting to the lore). I think I will end my blog post here as I need to finish my PSet. It is currently 8:18 pm, and I still need to finish my Python code for Ninja Fruit Slicing. Thank you for reading!
-Sara
