Imagination, Teamwork and the Roll of the Dice

RPG Club has returned this term, with our experienced adventurers resuming their stories and welcoming new members to join the team. The club is all about collaborative storytelling, using imagination, teamwork and a little innovation to create exciting adventures where nobody knows quite what will happen next. 

The only real rule is that every game must tell an imaginative story together and include some kind of unpredictable system such as dice, spinners or other chance-based mechanics. Players do not simply decide what their character does, but instead what they want to do. The dice then decide whether that plan succeeds, fails, or creates a whole new problem. As you run from a beast, do you leap safely over the hole, fall short and scramble to climb out, or end up trapped at the bottom with a twisted ankle? The story changes with every roll. 

This term, the group has been creating their own game systems as well as continuing older adventures. Their ideas have included adventure stories, daring heists, a live-action podcast and even video journalism filmed 30 seconds at a time. One group even worked with Mr Lang and an AI assistant to turn their game into a playable website that families can try at home (although everyone agrees it is even more fun, and chaotic, to play in person!). If you want to have a go for yourself, visit Roll for News at https://rfn.aiyotea.com/, click the boxes to get your find clues, then work out your scene and film the next 30 seconds of your report before your next roll to find out how the story develops next. What will it look like when you get to the end of the story? 

There is no winning or losing in RPG Club, only problem-solving, creativity and the shared fun of building a story together. Whether escaping mysterious islands, planning impossible missions or inventing entirely new worlds, the children continue to prove that imagination really is the best game of all.