Not a Just a Hobby, An Adventure of Discovery
After that, I started to spend most of my covid time consuming and watching these hours of content. But it wasn't like watching an ordinary movie or a TV series. Because the people playing were not reading memorized paragraphs. The character they were playing was not written by someone else.
The story was not written by one person.
The story was told by a group of friends sitting around the table together. There is a Dungeon Master who helps explain how things turn out, but the choices that all the players make, the decisions they make, the things they say and the way they interact with the NPCs can drive the whole story.
It was an incredible experience for me. People making decisions live in the moment and all of a sudden the group gets emotional, at one moment everyone gets angry, they do everything they can to defeat a villain they're fighting together. The villains are so well written and often a personal threat. When they finally triumph, the whole group hugs and congratulates each other in ecstasy...
That's when I decided that when I got home I was going to build a room like that and go on adventures with my friends.
Dungeons and Dragons is more than a hobby for many people. It's a passion and an obsession. When you're in the middle of a game, it's hard to see the world around you. You are surrounded by other people who are there with you, and they want to be there with you too.
This is why I love Dungeons and Dragons. It helps me strengthen friendships that I already have, it teaches me how to work together when we have trouble getting through a tough battle or boss fight, and it makes me care about other people's problems and realize that we are not the only ones with problems, everyone has problems.
It's also very important for children to learn empathy from their parents or other adults in their lives—and Dungeons & Dragons can help do that as well.
Then I thought I didn't need to wait to go home, and we started playing through online platforms, like discord. It didn't have the same flavor. It was constantly breaking, the sound was poor quality.
So we designed the table you see below.
A table that fits in the room and we can look at each other and play comfortably while sitting. Our friends liked this table very much.
That's when things changed.
It was more fun not only to think, write and imagine the game on paper, but also to use the minis!
And I got myself a brand new hobby, building terrain, printing and painting miniatures with a 3D printer.
I also have a lot of fun painting the minis and it gives me a lot of joy when my friends like these toys when we use them in our play, just like a mother likes the food she prepares and her children like it.
Dungeons and Dragons is not a simple game to be thought of as a hobby alone. It includes many hobbies. Writing is one of them.
There is also dice making! I don't have the equipment to make dice yet and I can't afford it, but one of the things I want most in life is to make my own dice and market them as a product.
Another thing is that our group is convinced for a youtube project! That's exactly why, in a few months, we want to upload footage of our game on YouTube.
I hope we can help people in our country and show them what a fun and character building game Dnd is.
My group and I have been playing Dungeons & Dragons since the 2020 January. We've played in 3 different campaigns and a lot of ''one shot games'' throughout covid times, meeting once a week online to clash swords with kobolds, hobgoblins, and dragons—not to mention each other. D&D has helped make my friends some of the best people I know, because we've learned how to work together and care about each other's problems.
I will never forget what our cleric, the healer of our group, said to our Rouge friend when he was dying. I would like to remind you that these two friends did not know each other before this game. Think about how you can play games with long-time friends who know each other
''I've got your back. You're dear to me. You're just like me. Your mom will cry for you too, even though we chose different paths. I can't let a mother cry. I can't let your life be taken away from you. You don't deserve to die, you deserve to live and make amends and apologize to the people you hurt. You deserve to be born anew. I won't let anyone mess with you, and I'll always keep you safe.''
This game evokes similar feelings for me and I'm sure for everyone who plays it. Getting together once a week for 3-4 hours to have fun and go on adventures with your friends in the world you created in your own head is priceless.
I hope one day everyone will realize how enjoyable Dnd is and join the game.
Thank you very much for reading!
It is definitely more than a hobby, dungeon and dragons is a place where we live with our completely different selves in a new world we create.
You have told it very well, I congratulate you for this beautiful post @arduilcelebren 🌸
Wow! I'd love to hang out with your gang 😁
D&D is in my blood, my family heirloom is a dungeon actually haha! It started when the Greyhawk campaign came out and developed with Gygax's vision. My dad and his friends loved the game, and he just kept adding to the original material.
Every character that has been killed in over 40 years is now an NPC. My dad added in people from comics, fantasy books, you name it! I once had to bludgeon Storm from X-men to death, because she didn't understand that an object she had meant sure destruction on another plane of existence (long story lol)
We also once snuck into a necromancer's castle to steal a sword, aided by Don Pablo from the Carlos Castenada series. He made a King Crimson song into an entire array of characters... Or there's the one time I met Rupert the Pelican (old pharma rep) 😂🤣
D&D is definitely a gift! Thank you for sharing your love for the game and giving us a look into your set up! !LUV !PIZZA
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I am very sorry for the late reply, I realized this beautiful comment a little late. 😔
Yes, it will be very difficult to join us, but we are thinking of posting videos on youtube, maybe we will wait for you to join our adventures.
It is really great that your father is interested in this hobby.
Do you plan to share more posts on this subject? I am very curious about your experiences. 😱🤗
You've got some cool collection. I got exposed to DnD a few years ago but can't understand how to play it despite being told how to play it 😂. I can understand the part about friendship though but I heard some stories about friendship broken just because of it too which is also interesting.
This is really possible because people can be very emotional or very angry when they play at the table. Our solution to this was the "Hey wait a minute" application. So if someone is unhappy about something, they say "Hey wait a minute" and we all stop the game. He says what he is unhappy about and then we continue accordingly. If it's between two people, we try to solve it. "Hey wait a minute, what you said hurt me a lot, I don't want to continue playing like this, can we continue in a different way?''
Using these and similar safety tools can be useful at some tables. Until people get to know each other
As much as I have absolutely no idea about the game, the collections are amazing and very catchy. I don't know if it's made just for the game or there's a possibility of marketing them
Things made for the game, of course. Some of the products were developed by my friends and as you said, they are thinking of putting them on the market. But we don't put something that we are not satisfied with, so we test it ourselves first. Believe me, a lot of ideas that we didn't like went in the trash. I mean, the idea was good, but when it came to the implementation and the product, we realized that it wasn't that good or we didn't need it.
Okay then. I get the point
You’ve found your niche playing Dungeons and Dragons. It’s amazing how Covid offered glimpses into lifestyles we might otherwise never have seen, isn’t it? You found much more, though, than an interesting pastime, you found passion, business opportunities and, most of all, lasting friendships. This is a really lovely read, very interesting.
Yes, indeed, in covid times we learned about other aspects of life. A little bit of hustle and bustle, a little bit of calm, a little bit of panic... For me and my friends around me, this hobby has become very important. Thank you very much for your comment on the subject!
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I find DandD enjoyable now as I read and would like to join in, gosh you have nice collections.
Thank you very much for your valuable comment, I hope you will start dungeons and dragons game at the first opportunity 🤗🤗
Me too only if I have a tutor😓😓😓..
This is really cool😂😂
Although I'm not a fan of DnD, I do love the amount of creative intent poured into it.
So all those props in the pictures were made by you?
Amazing 😂😂✨
Yes the table is our own design inspired by some youtubers. Dice towers, dice trays and some minis are also our design. Other things are painted by me and my friends as well... So.. There a lot of work here 😱🤣
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