The RPG club at Pahrump Valley High School was founded in 2012 by a group of students who simply wanted to have fun. Those students were Tanis Wright, Karson Vitto, and Nick Curto. They went to the only adult who would handle them, and that adult was Robin Williams. Now, Williams didn’t understand what RPG games were; he couldn’t comprehend what RPG stood for. But after those three students approached him and proposed to make a club around them, he quickly learned that it stood for role-playing games. After William saw how well the club would run, Williams decided to step up and help run the club.
Now, Mr. Williams currently teaches computer science at Pahrump Valley High School. He also, while overseeing the RPG club on Fridays, does robotics on Tuesdays. But most importantly, he has stayed loyal to the RPG club since it was founded, and he plans to until he retires. Over his years of overseeing the RPG club, he has seen how much fun it can be for kids and how much of a break it can give them from just life. “ Playing RPG games is just like playing make-believe.”
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But now, what are RPG games really? Well, as Mr. Williams said, it’s just playing make-believe. But of course, there’s more to it. For example, some of the different RPG games that have been played at the club over the years are Pathfinder, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Mutants, Battle Gaming, and the most popular one recently has been Dungeons and Dragons. Now, yes, that sounds like a lot, but nowadays, or at least ever since COVID, the main game has been Dungeons and Dragons. And all these games are basically where you’re set into a world and you’re a character of your choice, and then throughout the game, you can choose what your character does in the game and act it out if you want.
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Now that you know what RPG games are, here’s more on why you should join or at least consider joining the RPG club. The main reason is that if you want a place where you can be silly and quirky without the people around you judging you, then the RPG club is the place for you. Also, since it does push you out of your comfort zone a little, it will help you gain confidence, and it’s just a great place to make friends.
“It taught me a sense of integrity and authority and also just helped me be a more confident and bolder person in general.” This quote was given by Breeanna Smiley, and she is a senior at Pahrump Valley High School. She has also been attending the RPG club since her freshman year. Since Smiley is leaving PVHS this year, she really hopes the RPG club continues and that more people join it, simply because it changed her whole high school experience for the better.
“RPG club gave me something to look forward to at the end of every week.” This quote was given by Kristian Harn, another senior at PVHS. This quote also gives an example of another reason you should join the RPG club, because, like most people, Harn really didn’t like school at all. But having a club that he really enjoyed gave him a reason to look forward to school, or at least the end of it.
Joining the RPG club at PVHS can truly help you in so many ways. It can also truly change somebody’s high school experience. And I honestly recommend that to anybody reading, you should at least try out the RPG club once, or if not the RPG club, any other club, because it can really help you become a better person in so many ways.
