I realized quickly that there was a wide variety of experience within my group. When students came in on Thursday, I made sure to have a variety of source books available and character sheets and spell sheets for each student. ![]() I quickly had five students interested, so I set my session zero date for Thursday and began to prepare to run Lost Mines of Phandelver. I created a Google Classroom for the club and put the information and class code on my board. I told the two students asking if they could find at least four people to play, I would gladly run a game for them in the morning. However, they know I am a sucker for seeing them happy and sharing my passions. I initially hesitated because it would mean giving up my final day when I did not have any meetings or clubs to run. They immediately began to beg me to start up a D&D game for them before school. ![]() My students are aware of my board gaming hobby and a few connected that I would be the best person in the school to teach them D&D. ![]() Before I get into the topic based advice though, I will give some background on how this all started.Ī few weeks ago, I shared with my students a kraken I had finished painting for my home campaign. While working through the trials and tribulations of starting a D&D campaign with seven 13 year olds who have never played, I figured I would write up a short series of advice on how to start a similar club at any school based on my experiences.įor today’s post, I am going to focus on my session zero, which took place on Thursday morning. After nearly two weeks of my students begging me shamelessly, I have decided to start a D&D club before school for my seventh graders.
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