Table Top Club; campaigns and boardgames
By Morgan Dickens
TABLE Top Club’s new executive board welcomed new and returning members as they kicked off their semester campaigns of the Table Top Role Playing Game.
The start of a new semester marks the start of new adventures for the Table Top Club.
On Sept. 19, Lynch Adler Hall room 205 was met with a big turnout, as students poured in with anticipation and excitement for their TTRPG campaigns.
Once 4 p.m. struck, students began separating into different classrooms to begin their adventures.
For any newcomers who were not part of a campaign, they were met with a bin full of various board games to pass the time.
As the new executive board takes the reins, they aim to keep the environment they had over the years while bringing in new ideas.
“We’re gonna try some new stuff for this coming semester,” Dylan Sack, said senior health science major.
Sack has been part of the club since his freshman year and recalled the good friends he made along the way.
As the current vice president of the club, he looks forward to reinforcing the goal of the previous executive board, maintaining a welcoming atmosphere that includes everyone.
Sack said he wanted to “try to get more involvement outside of just the small things that we do, trying to do more things for the campus.”
Whether they want to be involved in its campaigns or come to play board games, he and the rest of the board want to make sure this atmosphere is maintained.
Senior game design major Jeffery Tarchichi has been a member of the club for over two years and expressed how he has enjoyed his time here making memories with the other members.
He encourages any newcomers “to have fun” and “enjoy the moment.”
With so many fond memories, it was tough for him to pick just one.
“I didn’t really have favorites,” Tarchichi said. “But I mostly liked the ones with [Dungeons & Dragons.]”
Table Top Club has been a part of Rider for almost a decade.
Dating back to 2015, the club has provided a space for students to de-stress with classic games like Monopoly, Scrabble, Chess and Battle Ship.
They have since begun implementing newer games like Smash Up, Settlers of Catan, Munchkin and Boss Monster, which have become club-favorites.
While the club originally started as a place for people to come and play various tabletop games, it has evolved and introduced the Dungeons & Dragons like game, TTRPG, which has been part of the club for the last four years.
In TTRPG, students gather every other Friday and start a new campaign each semester.
Each campaign welcomes different stories from horror to simple role-playing games, as well as a range of different abilities.
In one of the systems they are running this semester called Kids on Brooms, students will roll only one die, which will determine different stats.
Sack shared that with this unique variable, it opens the door to a lot of variability in a person’s abilities.
While the club has its set systems, club leaders like Sack encourage members and newcomers to bring their own ideas and express their creative freedom.
“Anybody is welcome here,” Dylan Sack said. “Doesn’t matter your major. Doesn’t matter if you have a single creative bone in your body. If you want to join a game, the Tabletop club is perfect for that.”
