Prompt #5 Come the end of my Sophomore year, I faced an impasse. I had committed myself almost entirely to band. It encapsulated my life. All of my activities, all of my friends, all of my hobbies, all had one thing in common: they all centered around band. As one might expect in such a situation, I began to yearn for something else. I realized that I might not be as passionate about band as I had once thought. It was fun, sure, but there had to be something more to life than playing beats on drums in uncomfortable dress clothes in the winter and sweating it out on the pavement during the summer. I had to find something new. But what? Throughout my childhood I had heard stories from my father about his friends in the 80s, playing Dungeons
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I pictured myself as the orchestrator of a heist from some action movie. Everyone I knew was a possible co-conspirator. But it wasn’t that simple. I had to be careful who I picked. I couldn’t pick someone who was totally unfamiliar with tabletop roleplaying. They’d quickly become bored and ruin the fun for the others. I didn’t want to pick people who were experts either, though, because I was inexperienced, and would feel behind myself. I wanted it to be a learning experience for all involved. Not that I knew any experienced roleplayers anyway. As time went on, I examined those around me carefully, trying to imagine how different people would interact with each other, and how they would fare in a roleplaying setting. Come February, I had recruited 3 others who would be the subjects of my experiment. One was a second choice, the first having turned it down, but in hindsight they were definitely the preferable of the two. I finally had it: my perfect …show more content…
I lead, as the organizer of the group, and the only one with regular access to the rulebook. Of course, it didn’t go smooth at first. We had all known each other beforehand, but none of us were particularly close to everyone else. There was some disjointed testing of the water as we set off, but eventually we were swept up in the excitement of our new group. I had the feeling that we were all itching for a change of pace, and our little roleplaying syndicate certainly scratched that itch. In the next few months, we picked up two more members, one a close friend of one of the existing members, and the other a girl from one of my classes who desperately needed something new to do, just like I had. Her friend group had recently fallen apart due to drama, and our group happily accepted her into the
I pictured myself as the orchestrator of a heist from some action movie. Everyone I knew was a possible co-conspirator. But it wasn’t that simple. I had to be careful who I picked. I couldn’t pick someone who was totally unfamiliar with tabletop roleplaying. They’d quickly become bored and ruin the fun for the others. I didn’t want to pick people who were experts either, though, because I was inexperienced, and would feel behind myself. I wanted it to be a learning experience for all involved. Not that I knew any experienced roleplayers anyway. As time went on, I examined those around me carefully, trying to imagine how different people would interact with each other, and how they would fare in a roleplaying setting. Come February, I had recruited 3 others who would be the subjects of my experiment. One was a second choice, the first having turned it down, but in hindsight they were definitely the preferable of the two. I finally had it: my perfect …show more content…
I lead, as the organizer of the group, and the only one with regular access to the rulebook. Of course, it didn’t go smooth at first. We had all known each other beforehand, but none of us were particularly close to everyone else. There was some disjointed testing of the water as we set off, but eventually we were swept up in the excitement of our new group. I had the feeling that we were all itching for a change of pace, and our little roleplaying syndicate certainly scratched that itch. In the next few months, we picked up two more members, one a close friend of one of the existing members, and the other a girl from one of my classes who desperately needed something new to do, just like I had. Her friend group had recently fallen apart due to drama, and our group happily accepted her into the