Dungeons & Dragons (and other RPGs) have been running for nearly 20 years in the school library. Over the last few years there has been an overwhelming resurgence in Dungeons & Dragons and as a result, since around 2016 the Friday activities group usually has over 25 pupils signing up to it, and recently we hit 39 pupils, which is over 10% of the school roll. Back in 2018 we received a number of welcome donations of core rule books and miniatures (we also have a miniature painting group on a Monday) to support the groups. These were very welcome and much needed as the librarian often provided her own resources for use.
Fast forward to 2022, there has been a resurgence in interest, especially within the younger year groups (S1&2), and they were more interested in actually borrowing the rule books to take home to read and use. This meant that the groups (Tuesday after school, Tuesday and Thursday lunchtime as well as the timetabled Friday afternoon activity sometimes didn’t have access to them if needed. Back in August/September a call was put out on Twitter and we received more core rule books as well as the newer Monsters of the Multiverse. They have proved popular. Some have been catalogued as reference only, which means we now don’t have to worry about pupils forgetting to bring the borrowed books in with them every
week. There will alwyas be copies available in the library as well as ones for borrowing to take home, which is encouraged.
More recently, we also receive donations from a couple of independent RPG / D&D publishers. Another donation came our way from Grinning Frog, their
latest book, You Ask, I Write covering everything from adventure design, RPG ideas, locations, running sessions, etc. The publisher / writer has also donated their RPG magazine The Oracle as well.
A small publisher, Cawood Publishing, from Vancouver in Canada recently sent a couple of his books from the ‘Monsters’ series of books. Monsters of the City and Monsters of the Wilderness are certainly welcome additions to the RPG shelves.
We’d like to thank the aforementioned donors without whom, we’d have struggled to provide easily for large D&D / RPG groups.
A list of donors is available here.
