Gaming at SHU

            Seton Hall has a large student body with people who share many different interests. One of these interests is gaming and everything that it entails. At Seton Hall there is a gaming club that covers everything from board games to video games. They have a sector for every type of club you might need and attendance has never been higher according to Matt McDevvit the sector leader of the Dungeons and Dragons club. “We have had so many people that we are actually running out of space to accommodate everyone at meetings” says McDevvit. The club grows with every meeting and they have resorted to having people take shifts which weeks they get to play. Dungeons and Dragons is a role playing game in which players customize characters and play with a group of paper. This game is kind of like a board game so the more people that show up the more space is needed. McDevvit said that due to the high velocity of people he has needed to recruit extra help to assist in running the biweekly games. “It was just getting to be too much I could not keep track of everything and everyone” says McDevvit. He had to not only split apart the groups to play twice a week he also needed an extra set of hands to run these biweekly meetings.

Due to the number of people playing he also needed to bring extra supplies which meant that his budget increased from the club. “Yeah our budget is usually like five dollars, but since we got so popular they have increased it to 100” says McDevvit. This growth in the gaming club is due to how many interested students are coming to Seton Hall who want to expand their interests. The more people who attend the better it is for the club because they can create more events based on attendance. Matt is already planning several gaming events like a board game night in order to try and get even more people to come. With this his new found numbers Matt wants to do thing he could not do before and says he is already “cooking up” some stuff for everyone to be a part of. Seton Hall has a great community that is interested in a lot and the gaming club just goes to show how wide and diverse these interests are. Anyone who comes to Seton Hall is sure to find a place somewhere among the great students.