{"id":71,"date":"2008-12-18T10:10:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T10:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salibblog.wordpress.com\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2024-08-13T08:59:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T07:59:24","slug":"dungeons-dragons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/activities\/dungeons-dragons\/","title":{"rendered":"Dungeons &amp; Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/activities\/dungeons-dragons\/for-the-players\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button style=\"background-color: #50b1ba;color: white\" type=\"button\"><strong>D&amp;D Players<\/strong><\/button><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/activities\/dungeons-dragons\/setting-up-a-d-d-group-in-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button style=\"background-color: #50b1ba;color: white\" type=\"button\"><strong>Setting up a Group<\/strong><\/button><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/activities\/dungeons-dragons\/dd-and-the-curriculum-for-excellence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button style=\"background-color: #50b1ba;color: white\" type=\"button\"><strong>Links to the Curriculum<\/strong><\/button><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/activities\/dungeons-dragons\/dd-links-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button style=\"background-color: #50b1ba;color: white\" type=\"button\"><strong>Links &amp; Useful Documents<\/strong><\/button><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/activities\/dungeons-dragons\/donations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button style=\"background-color: #50b1ba;color: white\" type=\"button\"><strong>D&amp;D Donations<\/strong><\/button><\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4352 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2022\/08\/10102820\/20210824_154351-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2022\/08\/10102820\/20210824_154351-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2022\/08\/10102820\/20210824_154351-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2022\/08\/10102820\/20210824_154351-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2022\/08\/10102820\/20210824_154351.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>A Brief History and Overview of Dungeons &amp; Dragons at Stromness Academy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2712 size-medium\" 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Academy was introduced in the early 2000s\u00a0when a couple of pupils, who had played it outside of school, asked if they could run a game in the library. From there on in the D&amp;D activity, after school on a Tuesday really took off, with around seven regular players. The Librarian, Frances Sinclair, became hooked (she had played briefly just before moving to Orkney in 1992)\u00a0and wrote her own adventure set in and around the region of Tarlant, with the main adventure taking place in a rather large castle, full of oozes, vampires, skeletons, and other such creatures to battle, along with the arch enemy Galesh, who had taken over the castle from Lord Egreb.\u00a0 These halcyon days of D&amp;D gave us some long sessions, well, for\u00a0as long as we were allowed to stay after school (2-3hrs) in those days.\u00a0 We had one player who carelessly used a &#8216;bead of force&#8217; on three separate occasions &#8211; killing his character\u00a0on each occasion, but it did save the rest of the party.<\/p>\n<p>These early games were played briefly using 3rd edition, then on to\u00a03.5e. \u00a0In 2008 we switched to 4th edition over which, there was many a debate about it&#8217;s complexity and we certainly found that game play was much slowed 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It started badly with a ship wreck on the wild coast, coming ashore in a haunted ruined village\u00a0(<em>Up the Wild Coast<\/em>\u00a0written by F. Sinclair).\u00a0 PCs (Player characters) were given several reasons, depending on who they spoke to or what they heard in the port town of Silverwell,\u00a0to head northwards &#8211; a missing elf on the i&#8217;Tol; a missing Halfling; a couple of letters to be delivered; the possibility of removing bandits from the Wilderland and a general awareness of something not being right in the region of Rovanna\u00a0around the principal (small) town of Huntsford.\u00a0 Further development of the adventure arc includes sidequests in Huntsford and surrounding area.\u00a0 Some, but not all the events the PCs came upon were linked to &#8216;something&#8217; bigger &#8211; like any good D&amp;D adventure.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2008\/12\/CXvQ3sDWcAESEYQ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2511 aligncenter\" 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As of 2017, a further [very] short session was introduced and played on a Thursday lunchtime and it became known as &#8216;Luncheon &amp; Dragons&#8217;. Pupils are allowed to bring their lunch in (not hot food) where Mrs S or a pupil runs a 30-40 minute session.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4351 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2022\/08\/10102716\/P1080328-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2022\/08\/10102716\/P1080328-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2022\/08\/10102716\/P1080328-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2022\/08\/10102716\/P1080328-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2022\/08\/10102716\/P1080328.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Players have come and gone.\u00a0 The group has shrunk and grown over the years, but there are still a core group who play regularly. Our journey into\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnd.wizards.com\/dungeons-and-dragons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">5th edition D&amp;D<\/a> started with the Librarian&#8217;s own copy of the Starter Set, which has gone back to a broadly similar (in some respects) mechanics of 3.5 and earlier. \u00a0Certainly, encounters (battles with enemies, etc) are now a bit quicker and smoother to run. \u00a0<em>Hoard of the Dragon Queen<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Curse of Strahd<\/em>,\u00a0published adventures from <a href=\"http:\/\/dnd.wizards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wizards of the Coast<\/a> have also been played. It is difficult, though as we only have 45-50 minutes for a session (school timetable changes a few years ago lost us 15 minutes off Friday activities and 20 minutes off Tuesday&#8217;s session).\u00a0 There are now groups playing during Friday activities, three of which are DM&#8217;d by pupils running their own or published adventures. One pupil has run a 3.5e D &amp; D game and another was working with <em>d20 Modern<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>By September 2018, we had a record 39 pupils taking part in Friday RPG activities, 31 of whom play D&amp;D, with 8 playing Magic the Gathering. This was over 10% of the school roll. Five pupils and Mrs Sinclair now run RPG games, which included D&amp;D, Pathfinder and Starfinder.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2698\" src=\"https:\/\/glow-prod-or.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2008\/12\/P1220465-150x150.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&#038;X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEBcaCWV1LXdlc3QtMSJHMEUCIQDtq%2FGRJwj89XBPHSNzAq%2FDtRIk98kTZf7%2Fz7I62LukTAIgW5mAJi4YKWEBiwZafxkM6pK1bxGETEvxxdO35Zxu3bQqwgUI4P%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FARAFGgwyNzM1NzAxOTU0MzMiDPfirI1%2BjIBkDqCAUCqWBXKUeFSBBByM8RH1jDTvM9TljvNyGYEwNbCJD7KCc35dNtysRqX51AHbY8a8gvIUMvMaiFkyq%2B8qE3VHrhdfaBZXYmOFAWXM8%2F0785OOO2%2BXFHDF4dKzXAe8N04EOtk2pQdZ6E%2FnESud2y2i4WjPTgTNLMQ2AbWn8TNlZBhL%2F7TssmZZiunbSmcbsbPYEGDNdr%2FX90NqfwHUEbQg5OVcaH2ABaWPiJMWLnqGHFBDHKHYqjp0yFVPseRcD1bdsY6nq2oYP8Ij7PkeqlBSIhf7TSRVzuxZNAw0g3DN%2BffoCZiC1wLFFJoeSRj9MJHABBCkjAX%2BxbUpXCVupSeYiXnsqm8fzN5LIJrZhduQ20cGK2syp6gkiyN6S%2BCKLJmIFshw3PAiWFcRfAsQ%2Fg1REkOGOv7WFj2d9Nn6P%2BbwlTx9yS4wrfdYZDVR5y%2BzWZgTLlHTavcGoQwk0IAG46x8hJDDFU8bEPBSnCLyxFmlsONfRq%2FO0EdJV51HNJy3d%2FpK49VakTaTB5ai2XpaJmCydHT4QhGvu3ENkie18h%2BcwSRVsqg7ZxZ%2BtbtgzzQbpMLqbxt04HWYP%2FtfDTHDataDZ2z9iGrrYYei3%2FwA5m9KXhaW72FsW%2FAIFlmRe4W0LO%2BaD%2FHCr%2BCRdln8FYn2U0HD%2B%2FYmOr5wMZjLw5NBFq%2FNpvbKFAyz0S27xfeL1x34g2t2bXXV52j5g5ffGQ8Zg%2FsmYuIjYpCVKis%2F9XKiQNVhtkul3vFGeFcjLlXyLbORGGsO3s5oCvSoaLwSqL54rLi0%2BWW7WTz8g46QLF0z1D2VzAh8kNwyCvNrNkyNzJGle7xh%2BE6aOmaMkiMmSE9zUX3icA0zbNmwboyJv02CBPwjuZNQ%2FzXjdfUZIms6MNHF0s4GOrEBsTPU4x%2B%2FFTNnfUuD1lbzOV%2BZxwtgliPKDMbID6bESi5wbZN0fVPu02kZthbIEIwQH%2BG5d0CWY5NOCKd3FgMOsQeKcwR18UxJXkSS18Fk4lnE4g0%2FcJ6NHakRoHKXTobm91Q6MMiHWhhuzQDdZFp59XYIAimntK7hjtGiDv2WAeAFqEH4yoSx0LVeBruEykJj4b1gBVY1HBbrw%2FkxlBjaIc%2BkZScyoYbchpRD5DEUz7%2FW&#038;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&#038;X-Amz-Credential=ASIAT7MQN47U4ESJEHLE%2F20260407%2Feu-west-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&#038;X-Amz-Date=20260407T064640Z&#038;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&#038;X-Amz-Expires=900&#038;X-Amz-Signature=7ed4b39a43f75f23be30e4df733abd5ae6368c29918aa9974fb8e82e78e31ef6\" alt=\"p1220465\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2699\" src=\"https:\/\/glow-prod-or.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2008\/12\/P1220466-150x150.jpg?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&#038;X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEBcaCWV1LXdlc3QtMSJHMEUCIQDtq%2FGRJwj89XBPHSNzAq%2FDtRIk98kTZf7%2Fz7I62LukTAIgW5mAJi4YKWEBiwZafxkM6pK1bxGETEvxxdO35Zxu3bQqwgUI4P%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FARAFGgwyNzM1NzAxOTU0MzMiDPfirI1%2BjIBkDqCAUCqWBXKUeFSBBByM8RH1jDTvM9TljvNyGYEwNbCJD7KCc35dNtysRqX51AHbY8a8gvIUMvMaiFkyq%2B8qE3VHrhdfaBZXYmOFAWXM8%2F0785OOO2%2BXFHDF4dKzXAe8N04EOtk2pQdZ6E%2FnESud2y2i4WjPTgTNLMQ2AbWn8TNlZBhL%2F7TssmZZiunbSmcbsbPYEGDNdr%2FX90NqfwHUEbQg5OVcaH2ABaWPiJMWLnqGHFBDHKHYqjp0yFVPseRcD1bdsY6nq2oYP8Ij7PkeqlBSIhf7TSRVzuxZNAw0g3DN%2BffoCZiC1wLFFJoeSRj9MJHABBCkjAX%2BxbUpXCVupSeYiXnsqm8fzN5LIJrZhduQ20cGK2syp6gkiyN6S%2BCKLJmIFshw3PAiWFcRfAsQ%2Fg1REkOGOv7WFj2d9Nn6P%2BbwlTx9yS4wrfdYZDVR5y%2BzWZgTLlHTavcGoQwk0IAG46x8hJDDFU8bEPBSnCLyxFmlsONfRq%2FO0EdJV51HNJy3d%2FpK49VakTaTB5ai2XpaJmCydHT4QhGvu3ENkie18h%2BcwSRVsqg7ZxZ%2BtbtgzzQbpMLqbxt04HWYP%2FtfDTHDataDZ2z9iGrrYYei3%2FwA5m9KXhaW72FsW%2FAIFlmRe4W0LO%2BaD%2FHCr%2BCRdln8FYn2U0HD%2B%2FYmOr5wMZjLw5NBFq%2FNpvbKFAyz0S27xfeL1x34g2t2bXXV52j5g5ffGQ8Zg%2FsmYuIjYpCVKis%2F9XKiQNVhtkul3vFGeFcjLlXyLbORGGsO3s5oCvSoaLwSqL54rLi0%2BWW7WTz8g46QLF0z1D2VzAh8kNwyCvNrNkyNzJGle7xh%2BE6aOmaMkiMmSE9zUX3icA0zbNmwboyJv02CBPwjuZNQ%2FzXjdfUZIms6MNHF0s4GOrEBsTPU4x%2B%2FFTNnfUuD1lbzOV%2BZxwtgliPKDMbID6bESi5wbZN0fVPu02kZthbIEIwQH%2BG5d0CWY5NOCKd3FgMOsQeKcwR18UxJXkSS18Fk4lnE4g0%2FcJ6NHakRoHKXTobm91Q6MMiHWhhuzQDdZFp59XYIAimntK7hjtGiDv2WAeAFqEH4yoSx0LVeBruEykJj4b1gBVY1HBbrw%2FkxlBjaIc%2BkZScyoYbchpRD5DEUz7%2FW&#038;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&#038;X-Amz-Credential=ASIAT7MQN47U4ESJEHLE%2F20260407%2Feu-west-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&#038;X-Amz-Date=20260407T064640Z&#038;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&#038;X-Amz-Expires=900&#038;X-Amz-Signature=b5d25230b044161d15cc1dea91d578f0bd56a451da247b35f0ac17bd80cbf3b0\" alt=\"p1220466\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since the end of March 2020 when the country went into lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an online D&amp;D group was set up to enable a small group to continue playing and keep contact with each other. After a request to Roll20, an online virtual tabletop, to maybe get the virtual <em>Essentials Kit: Dragon of Icespire Peak<\/em> for free or at discount, Mrs S was delighted to be given a lifetime Pro account to enable us to continue to play and to bring D&amp;D to new and experienced players alike. Mrs S went on to purchase the module herself and despite being back at school since August, and our Friday D&amp;D activity now restarted, the online game continues. 2021 started with another lockdown, thus the online group has continued. New members have come and gone; not everyone finds online play easy and we now have a regular cohort of 4-5 players every Friday. In 2022, there was a resurgence with 10 new players. A number of new and established players now run their own [short] games at lunchtime, or sit and make characters, helping each other out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3973 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2020\/11\/23114008\/EVkrV6hWkAcFk3e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3974 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2020\/11\/23114010\/EXQ7u21WAAAoSFn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the years we also have briefly dabbled in other RPG systems\u00a0such as\u00a0<em>Vampire the Requiem<\/em>,<em> Call of Cthulhu<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Warhammer RPG<\/em>,<em>\u00a0Necronomicon, Dark Heresy, <\/em>and more recently<em>,\u00a0Pathfinder, <\/em>and <em>Starfinder<\/em>. There are many other systems out there once you are hooked including\u00a0<em>Savage Worlds<\/em>, <em>Open Legend<\/em>, to name but a very few &#8211; too many for us in our short sessions to try, although if pupils want to introduce a new system, they are welcome to do so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"#top\"><button style=\"background-color: #50b1ba;color: white\" type=\"button\"><strong>Back to top<\/strong><\/button> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D&amp;D Players Setting up a Group Links to the Curriculum Links &amp; Useful Documents D&amp;D Donations A Brief History and Overview of Dungeons &amp; Dragons at Stromness Academy Dungeons &amp; Dragons\u00a0(Published by Wizards of the Coast) is a long established &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/activities\/dungeons-dragons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":127,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4525,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions\/4525"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}