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Olde School Wizardry: September 2014
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Adventures in tabletop role-playing. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. This week we pass out interim progress reports to our students, so it makes a natural point at which to take a look at my various campaigns and projects to see where they stand. Homeguard B/X D&D has stalled a bit for the moment as we shuffle the kids through the usual host of fall activities. Will my elementary aged players ever come up with a scheme for dealing with their first dragon? Student: "What should my armor class be? Lost Mine o...
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Olde School Wizardry: The Quest for Student Growth
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Adventures in tabletop role-playing. Friday, August 7, 2015. The Quest for Student Growth. Question: How can I increase student growth for 8th graders in my upcoming, nine-week long, elective Strategy Games Classes. Out for our anniversary recently, my wife and I were talking about my Strategy Games Classes. She's a teacher too and is both very clever and very practical so she makes a great sounding board as I look for ways to improve the upcoming year's classes. By Gido at deviant art. While at times th...
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Olde School Wizardry: November 2014
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Adventures in tabletop role-playing. Wednesday, November 26, 2014. Homeguard: The Battle of Gideon's Fort. My kids and their grade school aged chums have been chopping away steadily at classic TSR module Horror on the Hill. Resting in the halls beneath the hill, and learned of an alliance between the goblin-folk and the Cult of the Dragon. The session opened with each of the five players choosing where to place sharpened posts (intended to make it more difficult for the dragon to land inside the fort), p...
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Olde School Wizardry: Why RPGs Work So Well for Students
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Adventures in tabletop role-playing. Sunday, August 16, 2015. Why RPGs Work So Well for Students. Recently, gearing up for the coming school year, I read Michael Reichert and Richard Hawley's Reaching Boys Teaching Boys: Strategies That Work - and Why. Reichert and Hawley surveyed more than 1,500 boys and 1,000 teachers across four continents, posing two challenges:. In the box below, tell us a story of a class experience that stands out as being especially memorable for you.". Reichert and Hawley 58).
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Olde School Wizardry: August 2015
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Adventures in tabletop role-playing. Wednesday, August 26, 2015. Newbie DM Sound Off. Though my Strategy Games Class is on ice for now, here are some notes from three brand new DMs reflecting on their first few sessions running a stripped-down version of Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition. The best part of being a DM was that you got to create a story while someone changes it with you. I find the hardest part of being a DM is trying to keep [players] engaged and focused on the campaign.". Easily the smarte...
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Olde School Wizardry: Homeguard B/X Group: Against the Cult of the Reptile God
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Adventures in tabletop role-playing. Wednesday, August 12, 2015. Homeguard B/X Group: Against the Cult of the Reptile God. Unlike most "old school" Dungeons and Dragons players, I'm no great fan of classic TSR adventure (T1) The Village of Hommlet. I know it introduced a generation of gamers to "town-based" adventures just as (B2) The Keep on the Borderlands. Was my gateway to dungeon exploration, but I think (N1) Against the Cult of the Reptile God. Crypts, mines, and the like. Campaign, some of the ran...
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Olde School Wizardry: March 2015
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Adventures in tabletop role-playing. Friday, March 27, 2015. Art by Dave Allsop. At the end of our last session with my middle school crew, we wrapped up on a cliffhanger as the party's exploration of Thundertree. Led to an encounter with a dragon! Confronted with so great a danger, I didn't know if the group would choose to run, negotiate, or fight . Turns out, at least initially, they chose not to do any. Of those things, and instead froze like rabbits. Should we try diplomacy first? Finally, Lefty, th...
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Olde School Wizardry: June 2015
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Adventures in tabletop role-playing. Saturday, June 20, 2015. Five Against Strahd: A Roleplaying Birthday Extravaganza. Five girls vs Strahd Von Zarovich, D&D's most legendary vampire! What could possibly make for a better eleventh birthday? Two of the players were novices and one had never even seen a twenty-sided die before, so I really want to pull out all the stops and make this game / birthday party super-memorable. Here are some of the ways I stepped up my game:. Eerie music on the laptop. Sneaky m...
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Olde School Wizardry: February 2015
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Adventures in tabletop role-playing. Friday, February 27, 2015. Those few years made a deep enough impression that even now, decades later, when school gets called off on account of snow (as it was all last week) my first thought is usually, "Great, we get to game! Fortunately I have a small cadre of hobbit gamers who live right under my own roof these days, and so we spent a chunk of time each day last week pounding through classic TSR module Rahasia. A cruel magical maze. I won't say that it doesn't ne...
