Table Top Games

Table top Games

What is Dungeons & Dragons?

The core of D&D is storytelling. You and your friends tell a story together, guiding your heroes through quests for treasure, battles with deadly foes, daring rescues, courtly intrigue, and much more. But in a more in-depth description...

Dungeons & Dragons is a structured, yet fundamentally open-ended role-playing game. It is normally played indoors with the participants seated around a tabletop. Typically, one player takes on the role of Dungeon Master (DM) while the others each control a single character, representing an individual in a fictional setting. These characters embark upon imaginary adventures within a fantasy setting. A Dungeon Master (DM) serves as the game's referee and storyteller, while maintaining the setting in which the adventures occur, and playing the role of the inhabitants of the game world. When working together as a group, the player characters (PCs) are often described as a "party" of adventurers, with each member often having their own area of specialty which contributes to the success of the whole. Together they solve dilemmas, engage in battles, explore, and gather treasure and knowledge. Each player directs the actions of their character and their interactions with other characters in the game. This activity is performed through the verbal impersonation of the characters by the players, while employing a variety of social and other useful cognitive skills, such as logic, basic mathematics and imagination. The characters earn experience points (XP) in order to rise in levels, and become increasingly powerful over a series of separate gaming sessions. A game often continues over a series of meetings to complete a single adventure, and longer into a series of related gaming adventures, called a "campaign".

What is Magic the Gathering?

Magic: The Gathering (also known as Magic or MTG) is a tabletop and digital collectible card game created by Richard Garfield. The original concept of the game drew heavily from the motifs of traditional fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons. Released in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast (now a subsidiary of Hasbro), Magic was the first trading card game. A player defeats their opponent typically (but not always) by casting spells and attacking with creatures to deal damage to the opponent's "life total," with the object being to reduce it from 20 to 0. Magic can be played by two or more players, either in person with printed cards or on a computer, smartphone or tablet with virtual cards through the Internet-based software Magic: The Gathering Online or other video games such as Magic: The Gathering Arena.