D&D Club’s future looks bright

Ever since 2022, senior Ivan Reaves has been raising the Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) Club up from the ashes in room 711.

Reaves worked with Jeffery Foster as their club advisor to form the D&D Club, where as its name implies, people can play D&D. He got into D&D ever since his friends started playing it, but as tight school schedules appeared as his group aged, scheduling a game of D&D became difficult.

Getting the members was surprisingly the easy part, for Reaves. Doing the paperwork and setting everything up, was instead, the most difficult part. It turns out that there’s a lot of people wanting to play D&D. As each D&D game, known as a campaign, can be so big that they last between half a year to two years, repeat members are practically guaranteed.

Reaves feels confident about next year’s leaders. “We have some great leaders for next year and the next year’s candidates are going to be very well equipped!” Reaves says.

When asked about how Reaves thought the club would grow, he said, “To this day I’m still in awe of what the club is now and what it’s accomplished and what we will accomplish next. I couldn’t have imagined it any better. Truth be told I thought it would be a one year fun little thing with me and some close friends but now it’s grown to a pretty sizable club with so many new faces and that really makes me happy.”

In D&D, you can choose your species and class from a wide roster to make many unique characters. When asked about his favorite combination, Reaves says he likes the warlock orc combo; effectively, a strong brute with an interdimensional patron providing magical powers.

A bit of an obituary to the previous D&D club: it is remembered by an Olympian article on the previous D&D club, accessible by searching up “dungeons and dragons” on cvhsolympian.com, all the way back from 2012. The current D&D club is separate from the old one.