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Let's Roll

A Guide to Setting up Tabletop Role-Playing Games in your School or Public Library
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Let’s Roll by Lucas Maxwell is a practical guide designed for librarians and teachers to confidently deliver tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) programmes within schools and public libraries. It starts with the basics, offering step-by-step instructions on setting up TTRPG clubs, gaining support from senior management, attracting players, and managing sessions as a game master. The book highlights the health and educational benefits of TTRPGs, such as fostering creativity, teamwork, confidence, and encouraging reading. Featuring global case studies and a comprehensive list of TTRPG games, Let’s Roll ensures engaging, fun, and budget-friendly implementation of these programmes.
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This book is ideal for librarians, teachers, and educators seeking to introduce tabletop role-playing games in their institutions, particularly those with little prior experience in gaming. It suits professionals aiming to enrich library programming with creative, social, and educational activities within practical constraints.

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This book guides school and public librarians on how to run tabletop roleplaying games in a library setting.

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Master all the skills you need to deliver a tabletop role-playing game programme in the library!

For librarians or teachers who aren’t players themselves, the scope of role-playing games can seem overwhelming. Starting from the basics, Let’s Roll is a practical guide to delivering a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) programme in a school or public library, all within the time constraints imposed on library sessions. Coverage includes:

  • A step-by-step guide to setting up a TTRPG programme in your school or public library, including an example of a TTRPG proposal
  • Advice on bringing senior management on board to a TTRPG programme
  • How to attract players, basic table rules, and preparation as a game master
  • The health and learning benefits of TTRPGs, including creativity, teamwork, cooperation, boosting confidence, and encouraging reading
  • A comprehensive list of TTRPG games and how to implement them

Featuring case studies from librarians around the world focusing on their experiences setting up TTRPGs, Let’s Roll will help librarians, teachers, and other educators deliver an engaging programme that results in significant benefits on a budget – and is a huge amount of fun!

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“Let’s Roll is a short, easily accessible guide on the what, where and how of starting a TTRPG club in public and school libraries, and I highly recommend it for anyone who is interested or who has patrons interested in this sort of program.” — Emma Gerts, Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association

“Maxwell has done a great job tackling a large and complex prospect and boiling it down to something achievable even for those unfamiliar with TTRPGs. Including roleplay, gaming, and social interaction in libraries is an important effort, and this short, simple guide should encourage more librarians to give it a try.” — Emma Gerts, Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783306138

Publisher: Facet Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 February 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Facet Publishing

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 112

About the Author

Originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, Lucas Maxwell has been working with teens in public and school libraries for close to fifteen years. He is currently the librarian at Glenthorne High School in London, UK. He writes for Book Riot and has contributed to School Library Journal and American Library Association publications. In 2017, Lucas was named the School Librarian of the Year by the UK’s School Library Association.

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