Nasa D&D adventure wants to remind you that space is cool, actually
Mar. 5, 2024It’ll “blow you away,” apparently
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Nasa just launched its own D&D adventure about saving the Hubble Telescope, becausescience.
In a surprise crossover, US space agency Nasa dropped a D&D module that’s very keen to remind you that space is cool, actually. OK, so theofficial trailer(starring a gloriously 2000s CG dragon at the one minute mark) doesn’t do itself any favors with a… well, a rather intense approach. But aside from old chestnuts like “the answer will blow you away,” credit has to be given for the 40 something-page book with its own, unique world.
Actually, this Nasa handout feels an awful lot like those stealth educational games you might have played at school. You know, the ones where you think you’re going on a swords-and-sorcery mission but you actually end up using long division or the power of friendship to defeat monsters.
That’s not a bad thing, of course. It’s just worth bearing in mind if you don’t think you’ll cope with thinly veiled lessons like “Eirik linked to the Hubble Space Telescope after learning of its observations that have propelled understanding of black holes and dark energy (similar to the energy of the vacuum) on Earth, and copied data that he and select other researchers used to help decode some of the mysteries of their own planet and further drive new areas of research.”
You can check out the adventure itselfhere. If you’d rather tackle traditional D&D instead, check out our guide to the bestDungeons and Dragons books.
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