I am a Dungeon Master trapped in a school as an ESL teacher, running experiments to survive.
These blog posts are my notes: small trials in storytelling, game mechanics, and classroom magic.
I am trapped here with thousands of scary teenagers — not scary because they are loud, but because they are passive, uncurious, and weighed down by exams and stress.
If you are a fellow Dungeon Master trying to make boring lessons feel alive again, you are welcome here. Read along, or call out to me.
- {Crafting My Odyssey} Part 2 : Dropping the bait
How I hook my students into the Adventure? Sending a group of modern teenagers into a world that’s far removed in both time and space, like Ancient Greece, is not a small feat. But making… Read more: {Crafting My Odyssey} Part 2 : Dropping the bait - {Crafting My Odyssey} Part 1: Idea to Adventure
From Idea to Interactive Classroom Story Every one of my games starts the same way: with a few ideas colliding in my head. They slowly merge like puzzle pieces from different sets into something playable,… Read more: {Crafting My Odyssey} Part 1: Idea to Adventure - You Can Substitute a D6… But I’ll Still Bring My Giant Die Every Time
If you saw my latest Instagram post, you already know that there are plenty of ways to improvise a six-sided die. A pencil, an eraser, a spinner, playing cards, Google… if all you need is… Read more: You Can Substitute a D6… But I’ll Still Bring My Giant Die Every Time - About NPC Celebrities in London Adventure
Why I Recommend Customizing the Celebrity Slides One of the few things you’ll want to customize before playing London Shopping Mission is the celebrity slides.I’ve created a short YouTube tutorial that walks you through the… Read more: About NPC Celebrities in London Adventure - Badge Lore: Ancient Code Hacker
Franco earned the Ancient Code Hacker badge for his unbeatable puzzle-solving skills and for remembering key details long after the game had ended. Franco was not only unbeatable at the code-breaking challenges during the adventure, that was… Read more: Badge Lore: Ancient Code Hacker