“I rolled a six.” “Okay,” says the GM, “you get a tent.” While the rest of the party rolls their equipment, I struggle to find out what my character could even do with a tent. “Wear it,” a friend says. Thus came my favorite superhero: Tent Boy. Tent Boy is silly, because his world is scary. He’s bad at his job. He’s lucky. In the game we’re playing, players expect their characters to die. Tent Boy, despite fire-slinging goblins, lives to the end. Tent Boy doesn’t run away from trouble. He says, “So what? I’m Tent Boy.” Somehow, it works.
Dylon Medeiros is a college student. He loves fiction and food. Fantasy and cheesesteaks are his favorites.