Will Chan provided this presentation at a workshop on games training for library staff at the State Library of NSW 22 FEbruary 2012

2. Agenda
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1. D&D: What is it?
2. How can D&D help libraries
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achieve their goals?
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3 Getting started & ongoing
support

3. What is it?

4. D&D: What is it?
“D&D is a roleplaying game in which players are characters in an ongoing fantasy story”
D&D story

5. D&D: What is it?
“D&D is a roleplaying game in which players are characters in an ongoing fantasy story”
D&D story
• Framework for shared storytelling
• The Dungeon Master (DM) is the ‘referee’ and sets the plot
direction
• The players ‘create’ the story as they play

6. D&D: What is it?
“D&D is a roleplaying game in which players are characters in an ongoing fantasy story”
D&D story
• Collaborative not competitive
• Players work together to overcome the challenges the DM pits
them against
• No winners or losers in the traditional sense

7. D&D: What is it?
“D&D is a roleplaying game in which players are characters in an ongoing fantasy story”
D&D story
The fun is in the journey!

8. The Phenomenon

9. D&D: The Phenomenon
Shared storytelling to publishing!

10. D&D: The Phenomenon
D&D on TV

11. 1. D&D: The Phenomenon
Celebrity players!

12. D&D: The Phenomenon
D&D in Video Games

13. D&D: The Phenomenon
D&D in Social Media

14. D&D: The Phenomenon
They already read D&D
They already watch D&D
They already play digital D&D
Are people interested in D&D nowadays?
Absolutely!

15. What can D&D & libraries achieve?

16. D&D: The benefits
3 key development areas
1.Analytical thinking
2.Creative
2 Creative thinking
3.Social skills

17. D&D: Analytical Thinking
Scenario: Your party of adventurers has been searching for a lair
of goblins that has been terrorizing the local village and you have
finally found their mountain fortress. A heavy steel door guards
fortress
the entrance and upon closer inspection, you see an old
Dwarven lock mechanism...

18. D&D: Creative Thinking
Scenario: After cracking the door code, you venture in to the
goblin lair and enter a vast underground cavern split in the
middle by a deep chasm! You see a lone goblin standing on a
stone bridge lit by a few torches. What do you do next?

19. D&D: Social skills
Work as a team!

20. D&D: General education
Scenario: After crossing the bridge, you enter the next room. It is a
library! At the end of the room there is glowing stone door and when
approached a voice like gravel speaks “Only those that can tell me
Only
what Dewey Decimal division 551 is may pass!”
551 - Geology

21. D&D Educational programs
After school programs!

22. D&D: Potential achievements
3 key development areas
Analytical thinking
Creative thinking
Social skills
Adapt to achieve specific goals
Successfully used in education environment

23. Getting started and ongoing support

24. D&D: Getting Started
Finding a DM
http://locator.wizards.com
http://locator wizards com

25. D&D: On going support

26. D&D: Education support
Mount Morgan High school contact

27. D&D: Further information
Handy Links!
D&D basics
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Feature.aspx?x=new/whatisdnd
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Wizards of the Coast D&D library resources
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/library
htt // i d /d f lt ? d d/lib
The Escapist Terra Libris: The Library project
http://www.theescapist.com/library/
http://www theescapist com/library/
D&D and growing children
http://community.wizards.com/dndparents/blog/2011/03/14/the_bene
http://community wizards com/dndparents/blog/2011/03/14/the bene
fits_of_dd_for_growing_minds
D&D Stigmas & Benefits
http://www.theescapist.com/rpgpaper.htm

28. D&D: Off we go!
Finding a DM
Partner for advice
Partner for additional support
materials
Education support

29. Q&A