For my EDCI 336 Technology Innovation in Education class, we were tasked with creating, implementing, and documenting a personal learning plan using the open inquiry model of learning.
I want to document my worldbuilding and campaign prep for running tabletop role-playing games.
Worldbuilding is a process where one creates a fictional space detailing and designing things such as creatures, history, geography and so on. This process can make worlds that are very close to real life or as wild and fantastical as the imagination wishes.
Tabletop role-playing games are collaborative storytelling games using dice and rules. Often times there is one player designated as a game master, who acts as the referee, arbitrator, storyteller, all the non-player characters, etc. These games include things like Dungeons and Dragons, Vampire the Masquerade, Call of Cthulhu and many others. These games are divided into sessions (each time the group meets). A collection of sessions with the same group in the same game telling a serial story is called a campaign. Some campaigns can be as short as a single session or be decades-long epics. Check out this video for a summary on tabletop role-playing.
I’d like to try to get back into this hobby and design a new setting for a future campaign. Part of the inquiry will be outlining the steps I am taking, the tools I am using and the sources of inspiration I am drawing from.
Follow along as I document my process as I create a new world full of peril and adventure!