This toolkit by TTRPGkids provides resources to creators so they can take their TTRPGs from being educational to being classroom ready using the templates and explanations included here.
With a wider community acceptance of the idea that games provide players with benefits to skill development, many publishers are releasing educational TTRPGs. However, for these games to be widely accepted in a classroom setting and to actually be accessible to educators who are stretched on time and resources, it’s important to make sure that your game is not just educational but that it’s also classroom ready.
In this episode of TTRPGkids on Ludology Podcast, I talk about different ideas for incorporating educational elements into your tabletop RPGs for both in-class and at home!
TTRPGkids is at SXSW EDU 2024 for 1:1 mentor sessions AND to give a talk on using TTRPGs to teach engineering skills! Find info on the TTRPGkids events, resources supporting the talk, and a general intro for those who are new to TTRPGkids!
TTRPGkids made another appearance at Motor City Comic Con for their fall 2023 show and did a talk about Teaching Kids Core Life Skills with TTRPGs! Find the talk audio here in case you weren’t able to attend, and check out the resource list that supports points from the talk while you listen!
The Library Game by Open Story Games is a TTRPG/LARP where players learn about library organization while acting as researchers trying to prepare for a catastrophe that’s about to befall the building! Collect magical words for creating your solution before time runs out!
Cozy Companion is a magazine from Snowbright Studio that includes TTRPG adventures, project features, and activities for all ages (kids and adults can both enjoy) that all revolve around a particular theme for each issue! This review is for Cozy Companion volume 3: All Things Nautical!
Resilience is a critical skill that affects how we handle life’s twists and turns, and, while it is important for adults to learn too, it is imperative that kids have the opportunity to pick up resilience skills to help them later in life, in handling their current school load, and more… And TTRPGs are an excellent way to practice handling failure and dealing with life’s nat 1’s.
ArithMagine is a TTRPG system, made to pair with Stories RPG, for practicing numeracy skills! It’s a fun ruleset for playing with math in a dynamic and creative way that connects with the story that you make together. It’s also easy to fit into a class or school program with its rules-lite set up and flexibility to fit with any adventure.
This post is to provide quick references to the resources mentioned during the IN State Library webinar on July 19, including additional EDU resources and links to the games shown throughout the presentation.