Category: Journal

I’ve spent the autumn running the School of Adventure’s Year Four mission online. With about half my original players now off at different secondary schools, I’m down to a core of kids who are now all in the top year of the same real-life primary school and I think pretty much all friends in school… Continue reading School of Adventure—Player vs Player (Year Four part 1)

And so the students at the School of Adventure have completed Year 3, and my older kids have now left the school where the club takes place.   Back to the dungeon I decided to go back to the dungeon format for the Year 3 test, with monsters, tricks, traps and puzzles. It seemed to… Continue reading School of Adventure—Year Three

We have now finished Year Two at the School of Adventure. The club has been conducted entirely online in April and May as the players have not been attending real-life school and aren’t allowed to meet up to play. Keeping it simple The (real-life) Year 6s are leaving at the end of the term, and… Continue reading School of Adventure—Year Two

As the end of term (and the climax of the first-year test dungeon adventure) approached, the COVID-19 coronavirus came to London. I spent a bit of time worrying about how I would notify parents if I or anyone in the family started showing symptoms and we had to self-isolate so that at short notice I… Continue reading School of Adventure—moving online

I have now completed the first adventure with each of my two School of Adventure club groups. My intention was just to give them something very simple. With hindsight it could have been simpler, but it was fun enough. Outline I started with a five-room dungeon model: entrance guardian; puzzle or roleplaying challenge; trick or… Continue reading School of Adventure—First-year gameplay

At the start of the School of Adventure club, I did my best to simplify the character creation process. It is still complicated, especially making characters for six beginner players at once. I think I’ve learned some lessons. There’s an appetite for RPGs in primary schools The school agreed readily to my pitch. I sent… Continue reading School of Adventure – character building

I’ve started running a roleplaying game (RPG) club at my kids’ school. The game I’m using describes itself as “Age 12+”, but the school only goes up to age 11. So I kept the club to the oldest two year groups (Years 5 and 6 in the English system, ages 9 to 11) and I’ve… Continue reading School of Adventure – concept