D&D

(Warning if you don’t understand anything about D&D you may want to skip this one). Today is the day my true nerd side shows through. Today is the day I finally get to talk about the literature side of D&D. For those of you who don’t know what D&D is, D&D is short for Dungeons and Dragons. Basically D&D is just a bunch of nerds sitting around a table rolling dice and constantly yelling at each other. But you are probably wondering, what does D&D have to do with literature? Well I will tell you. You see to even start D&D you have to create a story, lore, characters, it’s a lot more than just people being nerds. (Final warning if you don’t understand anything in nerd speak turn back now).

To even start D&D you have to create a story. This can be anything, from something as basic as a princess is locked in a tower and the only way to save her is to slay the dragon. Or extremely complex like (and yes this is a story I have played through) an evil cult is trying to steal the world’s supply of gold to summon a five headed hydra which is also a god and that god wants to destroy the world. So in short (and if you didn’t understand a word of that) D&D stories can be extremely basic or extremely complex. But D&D stories allow people to bring their imaginations to the full. Lore is basically the same thing as story it can be as complex or as basic as you want it to be so I thought that I should at least mention it.

The other major thing that you can be extremely creative in is the characters in D&D. Your character can be anything. They could be a basic human warrior with a sword and a shield. Or you could pull something like me (and yes this was a character I played) and be a half dragon with scales and the ability to summon fire balls and shoot lighting by using playing cards.

So there I have finally gotten my true nerd out to the world. So I hope that this may have change some people’s minds that D&D isn’t just for nerds and is really simple. It’s actually a very complex story that you and some of your good friends make. And it is way more fun than sitting and staring at your cellphones for three hours just sitting next to people.