The Classroom Ready TTRPG Toolkit
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.
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Shifting from “educational” to “classroom ready” TTRPGs
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.
Review of Precious Things, a TTRPG about tiny dragons!
Precious Things is a tabletop RPG that fits into a folded zine to match the size of the little dragons that you’ll play as! Find small but precious treasures for your hoard and team up with fellow dragons to help each other create mighty piles of loot!
Tips and tricks: Demystifying RP With Kids!
Learn from guest writer, Graham Gentz, about how to breakdown the RP part of TTRPG and make it a bit less intimidating for yourself to start facilitating a game for youth!
Tips and Tricks: Improving Skills Practice and Recognition Through the Veil of TTRPGs
Read on to find out how I use TTRPGs to help my kid practice skills and why these games can be an excellent tool for approaching big discussions in a non-intimidating way for both you and your kid.
Review of Enchanted Blend, a story inside of a story
This review is for a short cozy prompt that can help you get ideas on where to grow your stories! Tested with one of kiddo’s storybooks and with one of my own reads, it helps to spark a conversation about what you’re reading and get you wondering about the story beyond what’s on the page.
Review of Stravagante!
With print-at-home booklets and pamphlets, rules-lite mechanics, prompt tables for ideas, and more… check out Stravagante! by Penflower Ink in the review here!
Tips and Tricks: DIY Dungeon Tiles
See how to make DIY dungeon tiles using materials at home to create custom and reusable map pieces – they’re easy to make, and I even did them with my 5yo!
Review of Ghost + Human, a 2 player mystery solving TTRPG!
Today’s review is of a 2-player fill-in-the-blank mystery tabletop RPG that promotes cooperation and planning as you take on cases with your sleuthing partner!
TTRPGkids on Ludology Podcast, Episode 10: Including educational elements in your TTRPGs
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!