How Do You Want to Do This?: Crafting a Role-Playing Campaign for Your Library

1- Short Session Description

After watching other adventurers for years, you feel a small spark ignite within you. You are curious, cautious, and excited to start your own adventure. You stop at the threshold. Where do you start?

This workshop will start you on that journey as we explore how to create a tabletop role-playing campaign for your library. Together we’ll delve into the mechanics of worldbuilding, explore aspects of storytelling, investigate resources to guide your path, and craft components to spice up your setting. By the end of the session we’ll get you started with your own unique campaign!

2- Session Style/Format

Discussion/Brainstorming, Make/Hack/Play

3- Takeaways

Participants will take away the skills to start building their own tabletop RPG campaigns, ideas and examples for programming that will suit their own libraries, and resources to help select and evaluate tabletop RPGs.

There will be hands on activities for this session such as worldbuilding, map making, puzzle crafting, and randomized character creation.

We’ll also be bringing along a selection from our own tabletop RPG collection so that participants can explore different rulesets.

4- Organization

The session will be co-facilitated by Danielle Costello, Robert Taylor, and Jessie Whitten of Valdosta State University.

5- Contact Information

Danielle Costello drcostel@valdosta.edu