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[[Category:Groups]]{{outdated}}''Tomorrow's free timeThe unreality of games gives notice that reality is not yet real. Unconsciously, todaythey rehearse the right life.''- Theodor W. Adorno

WARP (the Williams Association of Role-Players) is a club dedicated to roleplaying and similar [[Odd quad | Odd Quad]]-type activities. The club is noted for its laissez-faire organization; traditionally WARP only holds held one meeting, at the beginning of the year, and thereafter organizes organized through its [[listserver]] in smaller groups. (If it sounds fragmented and chaotic, that's because it is.) Although roleplaying is a primary focus of WARP, it coordinates has historically coordinated a variety of similar related activities. Among them are [[bopswording]], Laser Tag, board games, and card games. In the 2008-2009 year, WARP held free movie showings in Paresky on the weekends. Historically, WARP has organized outings to conventions including [[NonCon]] (circa 2008) and whatever else comes to mindPAX East (in 2015 and 2016). WARP also runs [[Humans vs. Zombies]] during the fall semester and [[KAOS]] during Winter Study.

The == '''Early History''' ==WARP listserverwas officially founded in 1989 by Chris Aylott '91 and Toby Elliott '92, but in some sense began in addition to serving as the coordination tool fall of 1987 when [https://sites.williams.edu/jcruz/| Joe Cruz] '91 (now Professor of Philosophy at the clubCollege) started an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons campaign, also serves the valuable purpose virtually all of a spam conduit, down which people send links to strange news articles, online games, and other whose members lived in [[procrastinating|procrastinationOdd Quad]] aids. The listserver is also a good place to settle important fantasy-battle questions, like "who would win in a fight: a cave troll, or a pack and whose viewings of velociraptors?" Finally, Star Trek (the WARP listserver is an excellent place to observe WARP crust original series) and Twilight Zone in action, since many WARP members never leave the listserver even [[Prospect House]] TV room would regularly attract an after graduation-[[Driscoll]]-dinner audience of 12-20 students.

Traditionally == '''The Dark Ages''' ==WARP has two "real" officer positionsgenerally sustained itself on its ability to entrap a sufficient number of naive, interested freshmen before they come to realize that undergraduate education is actually a time-consuming undertaking. On only one situation did this fail to occur: the Figurehead (president) and Dark Ages of WARP, when the club plumbed the Shady Grand Vizier (treasurer). The current (06depths of laissez-07) Figurehead is Kat Jong, and faire organization by essentially dropping completely off the current Grand Vizier is Sean Hayesmap. In practiceFor example, WARP has was represented by a long hierarchy stack of everbooks and a sign-fluctuating ceremonial titlesup sheet at the 2011 Purple Key Fair. The vaunted listserv became nearly completely abandoned; activities were carried on, preserving the most enduring club's lifeblood in secret, but without any sort of which is the [[Not-Pope]]formal organization.

== '''Next Generation of WARP is affiliated with most ''' =={{outdated}}In 2011 a mysterious nobody managed to recruit about 50% of the Japanese department into playing an extended campaign of Dungeons and Dragons 4E, followed by a significant number of other organizations students. With this, WARP was reconstituted in its current incarnation, which focuses on tabletop RPGs, LARP, and nominal supervision of campus-wide live action games such as Humans vs. Zombies and the ever-popular KAOS. Movies, video games, and other forms of entertainment have generally taken a backseat to these activities, but are still carried out in a much diminished form. == '''Vicarious Living''' =={{outdated}}The WARP [[Odd quad | Odd Quadlistserver]], if only by shared membership. The strongest link is in addition to serving as the coordination tool of the club, also serves the valuable purpose of a spam conduit, down which people send links to strange news articles, online games, and other [[Deviantsprocrastinating|procrastination]] aids. The listserveris also a good place to settle important fantasy-battle questions, like "who would win in a fight: a cave troll, which serves as or a more neutral socialization branch pack of essentially velociraptors?" Finally, the same social groupWARP listserver is an excellent place to observe WARP crust in action, since many WARP members never leave the listserver even after graduation. Other closely-affiliated organizations include  Unfortunately communication on the Listserv has fallen off dramatically because new generations of WARPies tend to just use email. Probably should let the [[Elizabethans]]alumni know we're still alive, huh. == '''Organization''' ==Traditionally WARP has two "real" officer positions: the [[Figurehead (Moocho Macho Moocow Militarypresident) Marching Band]], and the [[Mad Cow]]Shadowy Grand Vizier (treasurer). See also: In practice, WARP has a long hierarchy of ever-fluctuating ceremonial titles, the most enduring of which is the [[Den of SlackNot-Pope]].

* 2018-2019: [[Eily Mixson]] ('20) (Figurehead) and [[Adly Templeton]] ('20) (Shadowy Grand Vizier)* 2017-2018: [[Leigh Davidson]] ('18) (Figurehead) and [[Adly Templeton]] ('20) (Shadowy Grand Vizier)* 2016-2017: [[Aramis Sanchez]] ('17) (Figurehead and Shadowy Grand Vizier)* 2015-2016: [[Sam Ok Park]] ('18) (Figurehead) and [[Darla Torres]] ('18) (Shadowy Grand Vizier)* 2014-2015: [[Bryn Reinstadler]] ('15) (Figurehead) and [[Sam Ok Park]] ('18) (Shadowy Grand Vizier)* 2013-2014: [[Quinn Griffin]] ('15) (Figurehead) and [[Marina (Rinna) Caldieraro]] ('14) (Shadowy Grand Vizier)* 2012-2013: [[Nigel Munoz]] ('15) (Figurehead and Shadowy Grand Vizier, by way of hostile takeover)* 2011-2012: [[Gu]], the mysterious stranger.* 2009-2011: The Dark Ages. A mystery to everyone.* 2008-2009: [[Erik Morton]] ('09) (Figurehead) and [[Edward Newkirk]] ('09) (Shadowy Grand Vizier)* 2007-2008: [[Sean Hayes]] ('08) (Figurehead) and [[Edward Newkirk]] ('09) (Shadowy Grand Vizier)* 2006-2007: [[Kat Jong]] ('07) (Figurehead) and [[Sean Hayes]] ('08) (Shadowy Grand Vizier) * 2005-2006: [[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06]] (Figurehead) and [[Jake F. Manley '07]] (Shadowy Grand Vizier)