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Interview with Garrett Munro from Tabletop EDU

Garrett Munro is an instructor with fifteen years of educational TTRPG experience, and he is also one of the founders of TabletopEDU, a non-profit aimed at providing educators with TTRPG materials for their classes and programs. Check out hear to learn from Garrett’s backstory, XP, and wisdom!

Review of What I did on my Summer Holidays

This one-pagers TTRPG is a fun premise with a rules-lite system that can work GREAT for young players… and it’s a wonderful game for during or just after the summer holidays! Check it out here!

Using TTRPGs to learn and teach math

This discussion is going to focus specifically on how TTRPGs, whether by what they are or if they’re intentionally used in a classroom setting, can be used to teach math skills ranging from addition and subtraction to story problems and applications to advanced mathematics!

Intentionally therapeutic TTRPGs and TTRPG resources

This list contains tabletop RPGs and tabletop RPG related books/resources that have therapeutic elements built into the game or literature, and it is intended to help you find resources for your next applied game session.

This Month in Children's RPGs: Back to School! Now available on Youtube

This month in children’s RPGs with Family Fantasy RPG and TTRPGkids – Back to School!

In this episode of “This Month in Children’s RPGs”, we chat about some cool projects that we’re seeing pop up on the radar AND get into some ideas for back-to-school TTRPGs while discussing how TTRPGs can be great educational tools (both in the classroom and out)!

TTRPG classroom: In-game chemistry experiments for middle school

Tabletop RPG Classroom: In-Game Chemistry Experiments for Middle School Kids

Check out below for tips on how to structure a tabletop RPG around chemistry class experiments for a middle school group to support coursework and active learning!

Interview with Austin Baker, TTRPG prof

Today’s chat is with Austin Baker, creator of “Lieberstein Living Museum”, and educational TTRPG/LARP that has been used with college students! I was really excited to meet another TTRPG college professor, and he’s got a great game to share with everyone along with some wonderful experiences and insights about TTRPGs and EDU.

Learning to learn through TTRPGs

Today’s article talks about how TTRPGs help us practice skills and attitudes that foster a love of learning and help us to be good at it!

Review of Penelope Half-Pint Makes a Friend

Penelope Half-Pint Makes a Friend is a children’s picture and storybook about Penelope Half-Pint, a character who you may recognize from the Heroes of the Vale D&D show and from the Idle Champions game! It’s written by Penelope’s creator and actor, Hope LeVelle, and it comes with a great message about meeting others with an open heart.

Tips and Tricks: DIY Area of Effect Aide for TTRPGs + Geometry Lesson for Young Kids

In this tips and tricks post, I’m going to show an easy way to help with area of effect zones in tabletop RPGs using a very simple kid-friendly craft! I also show how you can use these to teach key concepts to young kids, like counting by fives, what a radius is, and understanding diagonals while also getting into how to level this up for higher concepts (i.e. using different shapes or teaching volume/circumference).