It was late October and the students decided to meet after school on Fridays - not an ideal day for a club, Bricker thought, what with long weekends and custody arrangements. But she relented: “I hate to say no to kids,” she said. Bricker was reluctant after her last sponsored club, a debate club, failed to get its act together. Any middle schooler feels like a weirdo.”īricker, a D&D neophyte before the club started, was approached about 18 months ago by a little, curly-haired girl wearing Converse sneakers who asked if she’d be their sponsor. “You feel awkward and you don’t know where you fit in and you come in and say oh, I belong with these weirdos. “It’s sometimes hard to find your people when you’re in middle school,” Bricker said. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock) Christian Murdock/The Gazette Sixth-grader Logan Nelson-Reeder laughs as dungeon master Alex Hernicz rolls his dice during the weekly gathering of the Dungeons & Dragons Club after school Friday, March 24, 2023, at North Middle School in Colorado Springs. “Which one of you got hit by the flame thrower?” he asks sixth graders Kapri Ezakovich and Aubrey Hartman as their campaign fires up. He volunteered to help with the club last fall, after meeting Bricker through the game store Dungeons & Javas. Alex Hernicz, a paralegal with the Army JAG, presides as dungeon master over a four-top. They’re referring to the quiet, long-haired blond girl who perches nearby and giggles good-naturedly at the ribbing she’s taking for her character’s choices.ĭown the hall in the library, where two groups have migrated due to lack of space in the classroom, Sgt. “And it’s not even the first time,” adds one of his players. “She dropped a bomb in a shop while standing right there,” says dungeon master Keegan Berry, a 13-year-old eighth grader who’s leading one of the afternoon’s five D&D campaigns, or games in D&D lingo.
Everywhere you look there are dice - four-sided, six-sided, eight, 10, 20 - mandatory for the game of chance that comes down to how you roll. So does the sugar intake - boxes of pastries and cans of pop are scattered about. At 4 p.m., the kids write their names on a sign-in sheet and wander into Christal Bricker’s geography and history classroom where they settle in around long tables.
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