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The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

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Students played characters with drug names like Advil and Amoxicillin in an honors college's conference room Friday afternoon.

D&D event brings students into a ‘pseudo-fantasical medieval world’

Isabella Nantes, Reporter February 27, 2023

Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is a role playing game that, according to Richard England, dean of the honors college, exists within a “pseudo-fantastical medieval world.” D&D dates back to the...

Luke Taylor is a senior journalism major and can be reached at 217-581-2812.

COLUMN: Artistic inspiration in unexpected places; or, how D&D made me a better writer 

Luke Taylor, Editor-in-Chief November 7, 2022

“Art” is perhaps one of the broadest categories I can think of. Everything from oil paintings to architecture to the design of everyday objects can be classified as art- don't even get started on the...

Barry Yard, a junior music education major, is this week’s Student Spotlight. He said he hopes to create a Dungeons and Dragons RSO once he works out the details.

Student Spotlight: Barry Yard hopes to create Dungeons and Dragons RSO

Andrew Paisley, Campus Reporter March 26, 2018

Junior music education major Barry Yard is taking his passion for gaming and trying to make it into a registered student organization. Yard, who is considering working with the Gamer’s Guild, already...

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