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Atop the center table, now stable and in place, Alessandro unfurls an off-white grid placemat-ish thing, slightly larger than a chessboard. The placemat-ish thing is a map; it is a battlefield; it is a tent; it is whatever the Game Masters choose to make it with their dry erase markers. Indeed, if the real people are actors, playing their elves and orcs with convincing intensity, the placemat-ish thing is the stage. Over the course of the game it will serve as proxy for the characters. In fight scenes, rather than swinging real clubs at each other...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to the Dungeon | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...combat encounters, however, the players stand. No one tells them to, and they do not do so in unison. But after a few moments of being in combat, all players are on their feet, peering down on the placemat-ish thing, excitedly rolling their dice and seeing how strong their attacks...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to the Dungeon | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...When I grow up, I want to be a bus driver.”What had once been an adorable placemat, made by my kindergarten self, had now adopted a more mocking tone. I sat at my kitchen table, and tried not to cry. I was 16 years old, and completely license-less.I knew how to drive. In fact, I had been driving flawlessly all summer, excluding that one unfortunate incident with a squirrel that lived on my street. But he was only in a coma, and made a full recovery. I’m sure of it.I worked...

Author: By Alyssa N. Wolff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Driving Miss Crazy | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

After an evening at a Weld Hall party and the Crimson Grille, Vietzen and his friends Walter E. B. Sipp '95 and Cristian S. Torres '95 arrived at the Kong around 1:30 a.m. yesterday. Torres, after a quick glance at his Zodiac placemat, introduces himself as "Cris Torres, Year of the Buffalo," and explains that he and his friends are there to satisfy some "alcohol-induced munchies...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: The Kong | 4/25/1992 | See Source »

...believe it, but horoscopes can be accurate. When I went to eat at a Chinese restaurant before going to see Frank Chin's play The Year of the Dragon, I never thought the horoscope on the placemat would have anything to do with the play. But I was wrong. "Full of vitality and enthusiasm," it read, "the Dragon is a popular individual even with the reputation of being a `big mouth' at times...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Chinatown, My Chinatown | 11/20/1987 | See Source »

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