{"id":2348,"date":"2022-10-07T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2022-09-26T10:51:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:51:09","slug":"the-epic-tale-of-the-birth-of-the-dd-club-st-mungos-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/2022\/10\/07\/the-epic-tale-of-the-birth-of-the-dd-club-st-mungos-library\/","title":{"rendered":"The epic Birth of the D&amp;D club @St Mungo\u2019s library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year I have decided to open a D&amp;D club in the library even if I have no clue what am I doing! I\u2019m a beginner player, never DM&#8230;and still don\u2019t get most of the rules ^^<\/p>\n<p>Well despite this very unreliable experience, I just decided to pick a date and time and promoted it during the library inductions for S1, because why not! Fool of me! A <strong>COHORT of excited pupils<\/strong> has answered the call (thank you Stranger things!)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2022\/09\/26101314\/ST-DnD-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2022\/09\/26101314\/ST-DnD-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2022\/09\/26101314\/ST-DnD-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2022\/09\/26101314\/ST-DnD-624x352.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2022\/09\/26101314\/ST-DnD.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So I found players (too many &#8211;&#8220;) now I just had to figure out how to DM, in like a week. I was doomed&#8230;But my lucky star decided to send me on my path, some help.\u00a0 A member of the staff offered her help to DM!! And another one gave me 20 dice or so for FREE along with some free D&amp;D books!<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yes I have a pretty amazing lucky star and no I will not exchange her for anything. Lucky stars are individual and meant to be cherished.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was finally ready to launch the first D&amp;D club in St Mungo\u2019s!<\/p>\n<p>And because lucky star magic is never too much, she sent me a pupil who wanted to DM!! I have now two D&amp;D groups in the library: one DM by a pupil and another one conducted by a member of the staff and myself for beginners.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Fcx738qXkAE-igt?format=jpg&amp;name=medium\" alt=\"Image\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Fcx76K_XwAMacNN?format=jpg&amp;name=large\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every Friday at lunch, I close the library for epic and fun adventures created by pupils.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I try to learn on my own and take every piece of advice from librarian colleagues and players:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last Friday, I participated to &quot;Starting D&amp;D in your library&quot; webinar by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasjmaxwell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lucasjmaxwell<\/a> just to pretend I know what am I doing \ud83d\ude05<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/dnd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#dnd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/library?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#library<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/club?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#club<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T0dL31g1j2\">pic.twitter.com\/T0dL31g1j2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; St Mungo&#39;s Academy library (@stmungo_library) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stmungo_library\/status\/1574311479599308800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I have decided to open a D&amp;D club in the library even if I have no clue what am I doing! 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