After school RPG groups

Omega · January 08, 2015, 05:20:30 AM

Not quite school RPG. But one of my teachers was doing after school computer programming classes (BASIC!) and one of the games he showed me and later gave me to play at the library was the old D&D rogue game. Still have the maps somewhere.

One of our librarians though was heavy into gaming and was a chess grand master to boot. Pretty sure he had about every SPI and TFG wargame ever made. As well as Battletech. He DMed AD&D at the library and later I took over as DM when he moved away. Unfortunately ye ole satanic panic set in late and the librarians started setting up increasing excuses to disallow us playing there.

monk · January 09, 2015, 11:25:15 AM

Quote from: Tyndale;808347I run a weekly group of four students who are on the spectrum at my high school...

This is of great interest to me! I'm doing something similar, but focusing on auditory comprehension. Specifically, I'm looking to see if regular play of an RPG will help the students form the fabled "gestalt images" that aid in the quick processing and comprehension of auditory verbal information.

In the course of my time running the games, though, I have seen quite a bit of incidental growth in social skills among the students with spectrum-y social issues.

I'd be very interested to hear more about what you're doing.

rawma · January 11, 2015, 09:37:34 PM

Quote from: Patrick;808305Did any of you guys have a group like this? I played through the 'Satanic Panic" so it was frowned upon while I was in school.

Never heard of RPGs before I graduated high school in '77; I started playing in college the next fall. Middle schools and high schools around here don't seem to have any problem with after-school groups but I don't know how involved teachers are or whether any of them have the sort of goals of the group in that story. (I managed to read the originally linked story via Google cache.)

Quote from: Doughdee222;808330I do vaguely recall a copy of an Avalon Hill game being on the shelves of one of my classrooms. It may have been Tactics. I don't remember which grade that was or even if it belonged to the teacher, it may have been left behind by another teacher.

A likely Avalon Hill game in a school would be Outdoor Survival, both for its popularity and its subject matter.

RPGPundit · January 15, 2015, 03:20:14 AM

At my Junior High, during the peak of the 'satanic panic', playing RPGs was banned in school. We did it anyways, secretly, during lunch hours.

At high school, we played all through it without a problem, but we had no club. We used the back of the drama room, which was the hangout for all the drama students, so it made for some interesting players sometimes.

After school RPG groups

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