Blog Post #5 Samantha Rhyanrd
One literacy I have developed over the past few years is not one I felt I had enough to say about to write a thousand words on, but it is still a literacy that is important to me, and I felt I should explore the depths of. It's nothing prestigious, but one literacy I can realistically track through the past few years is Dungeons and Dragons (5th edition).
I can distinctly remember my significant other sitting across the couch from me several years ago (we were not yet dating at the time), and they told me they had brought all of their books on dungeons and dragons books with them. I suspect I had made some polite response to them talking about something about a current game they were hosting, planning to put together, or just the fact that they wanted to create new characters, and the way I responded they took to mean I was interested in creating a character for myself and joining their campaign. So I found myself on the couch with them, as they interrogated me into creating a character, which I stubbornly gave character traits about that were not really character traits at all, just things that popped into my head. I don't think I realized until later on that my significant other planned on actually creating a character—and me playing said character—which had been random insufficient bits of information I really cared nothing about.
I was later incentivized to actually be involved in and care about dungeons and dragons when my significant other opened the conversation about it to me in a whole new way—they told me what happened in the games as stories. They try to go to the yearly dungeons and dragons convention (DunDraCon), and they came back with the fantastical plots of several games they had participated in, and I was riveted.
From there I slowly eased into dungeons and dragons via the games that my significant other ran outside of the ones they had participated in at DunDraCon, and I learned a lot more about how complex it is, and how much effort and planning can go into it. My significant other started out as just a player in the games, but has since moved into leadership roles in organizing and actually running games for their friends. They currently have one going that I (and a few other friends) had a part in creating, via the input of ideas and conflicts to occupy the characters.
From the amalgamation of all my experiences, I have some to realize that I prefer to be on the creation side of dungeons and dragons. I love looking at all the different kinds of characters that can be created, and coming up with either ridiculous or intriguing things to happen to them. I love hearing the stories my significant other tells me about what happens during the game each week, and although they offer to let me play for one or two sessions, I am much happier where I am behind the scenes.
This is a unique case, I think, in that I really only have one sponsor for my literacy in dungeons and dragons. Because while I know the other people that my significant other plays with, all of the information I get about it is from them. It is a wonderful world I have been exposed to, and I never would have gotten involved without that one, influential person.
I can distinctly remember my significant other sitting across the couch from me several years ago (we were not yet dating at the time), and they told me they had brought all of their books on dungeons and dragons books with them. I suspect I had made some polite response to them talking about something about a current game they were hosting, planning to put together, or just the fact that they wanted to create new characters, and the way I responded they took to mean I was interested in creating a character for myself and joining their campaign. So I found myself on the couch with them, as they interrogated me into creating a character, which I stubbornly gave character traits about that were not really character traits at all, just things that popped into my head. I don't think I realized until later on that my significant other planned on actually creating a character—and me playing said character—which had been random insufficient bits of information I really cared nothing about.
I was later incentivized to actually be involved in and care about dungeons and dragons when my significant other opened the conversation about it to me in a whole new way—they told me what happened in the games as stories. They try to go to the yearly dungeons and dragons convention (DunDraCon), and they came back with the fantastical plots of several games they had participated in, and I was riveted.
From there I slowly eased into dungeons and dragons via the games that my significant other ran outside of the ones they had participated in at DunDraCon, and I learned a lot more about how complex it is, and how much effort and planning can go into it. My significant other started out as just a player in the games, but has since moved into leadership roles in organizing and actually running games for their friends. They currently have one going that I (and a few other friends) had a part in creating, via the input of ideas and conflicts to occupy the characters.
From the amalgamation of all my experiences, I have some to realize that I prefer to be on the creation side of dungeons and dragons. I love looking at all the different kinds of characters that can be created, and coming up with either ridiculous or intriguing things to happen to them. I love hearing the stories my significant other tells me about what happens during the game each week, and although they offer to let me play for one or two sessions, I am much happier where I am behind the scenes.
This is a unique case, I think, in that I really only have one sponsor for my literacy in dungeons and dragons. Because while I know the other people that my significant other plays with, all of the information I get about it is from them. It is a wonderful world I have been exposed to, and I never would have gotten involved without that one, influential person.
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