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Become the ultimate Game Master and deliver tabletop role-playing games with confidence!
For librarians, teachers, school staff and parents who want to run a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) but don’t know where to begin, this practical guide includes five tabletop role-playing adventures written so that a first-time Game Master can jump straight in and start playing. Alongside the adventures the book includes:
- a comprehensive TTRPG glossary
- examples of safety tools to allow players to stay safe
- practical tips for helping new players at the TTRPG table
- practical tips for first-time Game Masters and new players
- ideas on how to establish role-playing sessions and festivals in your school
- lists of potions, magic items and non-player characters, including their motivations and occupations.
A companion to Lucas Maxwell’s bestselling Let’s Roll, this book is a must-read for librarians and teachers looking to deliver exciting and creative games and quests. Now roll the dice and have fun!
This book is the kind of high-level wizard's tome every aspiring Game Master should have. Lucas's experience and empathy are second-to-none, and I will be recommending this book to every educator I know, because between this and his first, there's really no better place to start adventuring.
— Dave Rudden, former teacher and award-winning children's author
VERDICT: An excellent title for anyone looking to expand theirprogram repertoire and to provide popular, oft-requested gaming events at their libraries.
— School Library Journal
'It is especially welcome to see a chapter on 'safety tools', which provide non-confrontational ways for players to indicate before or during a game what kinds of topics they aren't interested in engaging with. Normalising these discussions is a book to the hobby.'
— William Cohen
'If you've already got a sense of what the hobby is about mechanically and you're looking for a small menu of adventures that can be used to bring people into the singular joy of collaborative story-telling, this is a very safe purchase for a school library.'
— William Cohen
Lucas Maxwell grew up in Nova Scotia, playing on Nintendo, Dungeons & Dragons and reading comic books. He has been working as a school librarian for over fifteen years and is passionate about promoting the freedom to read and providing safe and welcoming spaces for everyone. In 2017, he was named the UK's School Librarian of the Year by the School Library Association. In 2022, he won the UK Literacy Association’s Reading For Pleasure Champion Award. In 2024, he was awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) for his services to libraries and education. He is the winner of the 2024 Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition. His instructional book, Let’s Roll is published by Facet and is a love letter to libraries and Dungeons & Dragons.
Introduction
- Playing Tabletop Roleplaying Games with Youth
- Tabletop Roleplaying Safety Tools
- Running a Tabletop Role-playing Festival in Your School or Library
- An Introduction to the Village of Arrowdale
- The Great Donkey Race
- All Booked Up
- Sea What I Mean
- Break a Leg
- Scone Alone
Appendix A: Book Titles
Appendix B: How to Run a Chase Scene
Appendix C: Non-Player Characters
Appendix D: Pickpocketing
Appendix E: Potions
Appendix F: New Magical Items
Resources
Index