“You are sitting in a tavern. You look down and see a D&D homework assignment on the table…”
Hello and welcome to the D&D homework assignment.
In this assignment you’re going to learn about how role playing games depict characters and events in magical worlds using numbers. You’re going to conduct a series of exercises meant to give you a sense for how these kinds of games use numbers to make the fantasy they depict feel real for the player. Specifically, you’re going to roll a few D&D characters
Assignment: Creating a D&D Character | MAS S66: Indistinguishable From… Magic as Interface, Technology, and Tradition http://indistinguishablefrom.media.mit.edu/2015/03/11/assignment-creating-a-dd-character/
Clearly I went to the wrong college. There was plenty of D&D for sure, but we didn’t get credit for it.