Let’s face it, the real world sucks sometimes. Who among us hasn’t thought to ourselves “If I just had a couple hours during the week where I could fight monsters, cast spells, and search for treasure, life would be so much easier”. Good news, you no longer need to worry, because SUNY Cortland’s Role Playing Games Club has the perfect opportunity for you. The RPG club has kicked off their semester with the classic RPG game, “Dungeons and Dragons”.
Last Friday, February 10th members learned the basics of DnD, created their characters, and began their first campaigns. If you’re interested in joining but worried about joining in the middle of the campaign then don’t worry because the RPG club are currently participating in specific short-term adventures called “one-shots”. These adventures can be completed in a couple of hours and are perfect for introducing new players who have never played an RPG before.
The RPG club values inclusivity and welcomes all, no matter their level of experience. During the character creation process, players are given the chance to create their own unique backstory and determine their ability scores by rolling dice. These abilities include strength, dexterity, intelligence, wisdom, constitution, and charisma. Players also choose a species and a class. Types of species include human, elf, ogre, gnome, dwarf, and dragonborn. A wide selection of classes allows players to find a favorite play-style that appeals to their skills and personality.
You can master the martial arts as a monk, defeat enemies with a single attack as the stealthy rogue, utilize the powers of divine magic as a cleric, or become a master of invention and ingenuity as an artificer. And that’s only a few of the options available.
The dungeon master is the one responsible for crafting the world, setting goals for the players, and create a rough structure for the campaign to keep the players focused while still allowing for them to be creative in there problem-solving.
Ubense Rivera is Cortland’s RPG Club’s resident dungeon master as well as President of the Club. Rivera says, “a good dungeon master is cooperative and understanding, always stays open-minded, and most importantly has to be creative.” Rivera also says one of the main goals ha has for the club is to “provide a welcome place for more introverted or private types of people and allow them to explore the creative aspect of themselves that they may not be able to show in their everyday lives.” Rivera and his fellow members have succeeded in this mission as the club is full of funny and imaginative people that truly feels like an inclusive community.
The Cortland RPG Club meets every Fridayat 7 pm at Corey Union in room 305-306. The club is always accepting new members of all experience levels and if you’re interested in trying out Dungeons and Dragons by yourself or with your own personal group of friends the club is more than willing to help provide you with resources to help start you out on your journey and can be contacted at CortlandRPG@gmail.com