Month: September 2016
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Gaming at the Museum – Writing Campaigns following Rostam’s Seven Trials
For our Dungeon World in the Shahnameh summer camp at the Aga Khan Museum, one of the challenges in the prep was writing adventures for up to four groups of players that kept them all wrapped up in Rostam’s Seven Trials, without tripping over Rostam or changing his story, and didn’t have them competing with…
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Gaming at the Museum – Building a Setting from the Shahnameh
For the Aga Khan’s Dungeons and Dragons camp they wanted to go above and beyond a basic DnD game and take the kids into a very specific world – the world of the Shahnameh. The Shahnameh is the longest epic poem (by a single author) known, written by the poet Ferdowsi about 1000 years ago.…
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Gaming at the Museum – Playing Dungeon World with 9-12y/os – Part 2
Gaming with kids was new to me – I’ve gamed with a lot of adults, and with folks who are new to gaming as well as experienced old hats, but kids was different, and not necessarily in a bad way! Firstly, I’d say that over half the kids were immediately ready to take the game…