Table top role playing games

Staff contacts: Mr Tom Urquhart, Ms Selina Fawdry, Ms Shannon Kavanagh.

Meeting Location: Link Block 2nd Floor, English Rooms.

Approximate cost: $200

Year groups who can apply: Students in year 8, 9,10, 11 (unless on language immersion) or 12.

Places available: 30

Requirements: nil

Outside provider or Organisation: KGV Led

About the activity

Do you fancy playing the role of a hero, delving into the ruins of a forgotten civilization, uncovering forgotten secrets, unleashing horrors, growing in awareness and power while all the time having a vital influence in the unfolding of a story? Search no further: KGV table top role playing is here.

Table top role-playing is a hobby that dates back to the 1970s. It is an interpersonal storytelling game that takes place around a table, where each participant plays the role of a hero in a saga told by a 'game master' or 'dungeon master', the storyteller. It is similar to the best computer RPGs with the game master being the one who runs the game world and story in which the other players participate. Played with or without a battle map and miniatures, you become the hero in an evolving story lived in your imagination and through your interaction with the other players. 

It is an enormously influential hobby, with modern computer games deriving their terminology and rule sets from those used in the table top game. There are dozens of famous systems such as Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, Star Wars, Shadowrun, Warhammer, Vampire: The Masquerade, Traveller, Game of Thrones and Call of Cthulhu. Almost every genre from film and fiction has a system - heroic fantasy, sword and sorcery, science fiction, steampunk, space opera, and horror.

So grab your dice, some chips and coke, and a character, and explore to the limits of your imagination.