Dungeons and Dragons Camp

With the advent of video games, it seemed for a while that the old school role playing game of Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) was headed for extinction, but it evolved over the years and is still very much a part of gamer lexicon. So much so, that Todd Academy of Indianapolis, IN, offers a D&D summer camp.

Decades before video games were the norm, gamers relied on a simple pencil, paper and oddly shaped dice to immerse themselves in a fantasy world filled with larger-than-life heroes, deadly monsters, and diverse settings.

Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) burst onto the gaming scene in 1974. With a roll of the dice, players became fighters, magic-users, and clerics and were run through adventures created by a "Dungeon Master" ("DM"), the person responsible for controlling nearly every aspect of the game.

D&D involves memory, strategy and complex mental calculations. It strengthens creative writing, character creation, logic, math, reasoning and critical thinking, along with teaching solid social skills, team work and sportsmanship. Gamers get to have summer fun at the academy while learning skills that will be useful to them the other nine months of the year.

Camp prices are very affordable at $135 for the first week and $125 for additional camp programs (and weeks).