We’re Learning a Thing or Two With These Educational RPGs
We don’t have to enter a classroom to learn a few things. AND we’re making it fun with these educational tabletop RPGs.
Even if you’re not going back to school this fall, there’s never a bad time to gain a little extra knowledge or learn something new. These RPGs are fun, and may just teach you a thing or two.
Inspirisles
Experiencing visions of a mythical land throughout childhood, you are guided to a kingdom ruled by the fae. Responsible for a pact made long ago by your ancestors, Arthur & Guinevere Pendragon, you must now earn Belief and the respect of their gods to secure your ticket back home.
INSPIRISLES is a completely original all ages Tabletop RPG promoting storytelling, empathy and Deaf awareness with an emphasis on cooperation.
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If you’ve ever thought about learning sign language, Inspirisles is an RPG with a focus on American and British sign language. Plus, there was a very recent Kickstarter for another game in the series. I can recommend a number of good resources for learning sign language. But like all things, making it fun is always a good approach. And tabletop RPGs are decidedly fun.
Ranger Mech Squad
Ranger Mech Squad is a solarpunk (nature-tech) tabletop RPG that focuses on teamwork, problem solving, and having non-violent fun while learning about the environment and real-world challenges. This game also includes a set of tools, aligned with the Classroom Ready TTRPG Toolkit, to help with integration in traditional learning environments.
With a focus on nature, problem-solving, and real-world environmental challenges, Ranger Mech Squad is an RPG with a focus on teaching you all about the natural world around you. Players take on the roles of park rangers, and protect forests.
Lieberstein Living Museum
Take a walk back in time with this historically-based TTRPG! The Lieberstein Living Museum is an adventure designed for history lovers, museum-goers, educators, or anyone who wishes to get their toes wet in the world of Table Top RPGs. In this game, you will take on the role of an original historical character as they and their party try to escape the museum and live amongst humanity. Do you have what it takes to weather the magical perils of the Lieberstein?
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This game has a little bit of a Night at the Museum spin that could be a lot of fun for history enthusiasts. Become a historical figure, traverse, and eventually escape the museum. And maybe check out a few exhibits along the way.
Good Nature: A Storytelling Game
GOOD NATURE is a cooperative storytelling game that uses simple dice-matching mechanics and journaling to encourage collaboration and creative problem-solving. This book contains the complete rules, a complete scenario, and player journals and awards ready for easy printing.
GOOD NATURE’s simple game mechanics are easily adaptable to any audience and genre of storytelling, but is designed for use with students in a classroom setting. The collaborative system helps develop writing and discussion skills, and is a great tool for social-emotional learning and English-language development.
Creative problem solving a storytelling is a skill that not everybody gets to work on very often. and Good Nature focuses on just that. Part RPG, part creative writing prompt, it asks you to create and journal the adventure around you with friends.
The God Corpse
Breaking through the clouds at 26,000 feet, the miles long corpse of a long-forgotten god awaits investigation by your adventuring party in the 5th edition of the world’s greatest roleplaying game!
When the gods are forgotten- truly forgotten- they die. This unfortunate diety suffered this fate- its name and legend lost to the ages. When the last mention of the god disappeared from the material planes, so did the last vestiges of its power, and over countless lonely millenia the body mummified as it drifted through space and time. Many have visited before you across many worlds, none ever discovering the god’s history, but leaving strange secrets of their own to be uncovered by intrepid adventurers in the thousands of miles of tunnels and hollow organs within the God Corpse!
The concept for this game is wild, and the dungeon design uses a 3D map of the human body. If you remember the borderline-ancient and no-longer-with-us Disney ride Body Tours, this game has a very similar feel and will also teach you some basic science.
