Questing for Tabletop Adventure Games
From Adventure Hour!: To use animals as loyal pets, make them friendly, smart, or powerful, but not all three. Let's give some meat to these words: Friendly Likes owner, likes strangers, empathetic.Opposite: Jerk, doesn’t care, needs to be motivated Smart Independent, adaptable, courageousOpposite: Clumsy, afraid, needs to be told what to do Powerful Skilled, effective, … Continue reading Playing with Youngers: Pets
Well folks. It's here. Adventure Hour! is upon us! Many, many, many hours of development. Pulling on now hundreds of hours of running games for younger folks. Editing to the most potent minimum possible. Increasing usability wherever possible. Maze Rats gave me a sense of what makes toolkits and printable booklets so excellent. Electric Bastionland … Continue reading Adventure Hour! – Release
Ever almost release a game and then someone makes a hack of it? Yeah, same. This blew my mind. A student of mine on Outschool shared this with me. She sent a game and adventure and tables all in a Google doc. Her excitement about the game got me excited. Another student in the same … Continue reading The E-hack
"Let's not ring the gong THIS time." This is part of the Playing with Youngers series. It takes little context to enjoy on its own. I run games for kids. I run them online. There are troubles that come with these two facts. One, they're kids. Things come up. For example: *Student raises hand*Me: Yes?Student: … Continue reading Playing with Youngers: Moving Right Along
"Generally D&D is the worst game. And I highly doubt I would ever play your heartbreaker with my students." -an evil insect, no doubt. 26 responses. As I mentioned, thank you for taking the time. This is all for the continued development of Dragonslayer Adventures. The "target age" of this survey was never revealed for … Continue reading Playing with Youngers: ‘GMs Running RPGs for kids’ survey results
This is THE image that got me into teaching on Outschool. It's the header for a D&D class based on Legend of the Sleepy Hollow created by Megan. She made this Outschool venture possible for me by showing me it can be done. 🙂 This is an interview with Megan Hardy, the highest reviewed gamemaster … Continue reading An interview with Megan Hardy, Outschool DM Legend
This orc has yet to internalize the first rule of travel: Sacks in the middle of the road are likely traps set by PCs. This topic was voted on by my Patrons. Join the process, ask questions and more! Often times you'll have kids of different ages playing together. This was the case when I … Continue reading Playing with Youngers: Side-by-Side, Older + Younger
"What we have here?" I mean, it's basically a list, but of the meta-game variety. "Customers can have whatever color car they want, as long as it's black."Henry Harrison Ford. In running fantasy games as a service (yes, that's right, click the link and sign up), that's the kind of "entrepreneureal" focus I want in … Continue reading Playing with Youngers: Menu
Treasure-seeking monster... But not a player, of course. The overlap between these Playing with Youngers posts and similar-age gaming has always been apparent to me, but many times the lessons of better design reveal themselves to me when running games for kids versus adults. For my Outschool DND adventures, I created a desert-theme Perilous Pyramid … Continue reading Playing with Youngers: Expensive Buys
Art is a self-taught, self-sought endeavor for me as of late. Hope you enjoy. 🙂 When I run fantasy role-playing games for kids on Outschool, I always label the classes as "Life Skills." Frankly, it doesn't really count as any of the other tags like "Social Studies" or "English" or "Math" even though RPGs contain … Continue reading Playing with Youngers: Do RPGs teach you anything?
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