Teaching & learning with tabletop RPGs? I'm pushing for

hisham · Last edited by hisham on Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:59 am; edited 1 time in total

It's been a while since I posted anything on here. Mostly because I barely have time to run anything because I've been teaching English for the last several year. Once upon a time I ran Star Wars D6 for my son when he was in high school, now he's doing internship at a university. I don't even have time to draw for fun.

So I've been trying to run RPGs for my students for English speaking activity, and over the last couple of years I think I want to push this as an official thing for me: consulting with high schools and universities on using RPGs as tools for teaching and learning.

I've started a YouTube channel for it and if you have any interest in RPGs in education, please feel free to check it out and/or subscribe!

Here's the intro video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa91mnUtJYQ

BONUS LINK! Blog post of that time I ran Star Wars D6 in class: https://hishgraphics.com/swd6-the-battle-of-corulag-instance-b/
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garhkal · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2023 2:12 am Post subject:

Nice work Hish..
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hisham · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:59 am Post subject:

Thanks, you guys!
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KageRyu · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2023 2:06 am Post subject:

I wish you the best of luck and more power to you. The Social acceptability of RPGs seems to ebb and flow. In the 80's when I started playing they were being portrayed on the national scale as a vile tool of the devil that would lead to cults and devil worship. Amazingly, the local perception was not so bad (and I grew up in a very heavily Catholic New England city like you might see in a Steven King film). Locally RPG were generally ignored, and there were stores openly selling them and people playing them. My parents were fine with it because it involved organizational skills, reading, writing, and one of the early games I played was Math Heavy (the Palladium system... yeah, when you need to invent NEW damage classes to abbreviate the damage numbers, you may be engaged in serious Stat bloat). RPGs can help with developing language and communication skills, and general social skills as well. They provide numerous opportunities for use in an educational setting that can be fun and creative. Sadly, local acceptance of RPGs was not so nice that the local school would allow an after school club...resulted in them contacting my parents out of "fear" because the administrators bought in to all the garbage being shovelled in national news about RPGs. I survived and so did my gaming group. We never once turned into a cult...or tried to summon a demon. We did drink a lot of kool-aid though.
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garhkal · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:55 pm Post subject:

Whill · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2023 9:50 pm Post subject:

Bravo
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garhkal · Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2023 1:36 am Post subject:

Pity i transferred up to the chicago area, at FTC great mistakes, before i saw the 'formation' come to fruition.
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DougRed4 · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2023 5:20 pm Post subject:

Great job, hisham! You're doing fantastic work!
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