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Game night: Tabletop scicomm and Dorito dupes

2023; American Chemical Society; Volume: 101; Issue: 28 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1021/cen-10128-newscripts

2474-7408

Brianna Barbu,

Agriculture and Rural Development Research

Dungeons & Dragons & dipoles In August 2021, Skyler Ware gathered half a dozen players at a game store in Pasadena, California, for a 3 h "one shot" game of Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). Some had played D&D before, some hadn't. But they were all there to get a side of science with their magical adventures. Ware, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology who studies battery electrolyte materials, had inserted elements of her research into the plot of the role-play adventure she had planned. At the beginning of the session, the players found themselves stuck in a dungeon. They each had a battery-powered teleportation device from which the batteries had been stolen. Participants had to search their surroundings to find replacements, fighting off monsters in the process. The party eventually found a stockpile of batteries with a variety of electrolyte materials: solid, liquid, and gel. Ware provided