Found in the Stacks

a solo RPG to unlock your creativity

Good Wednesday!

This week for subscribers, I am sharing a solo RPG (role-playing game) that I designed when I was working on my degree in Instructional Design. I spent a semester studying games, learning, and attention, and went deep down the rabbit hole into endurance performance art, serious games, and game design.

Found in the Stacks (download below) is a bilbliomancy game that leads you through four quests. You can do them all at the same time or split them up. You start by gathering a stack of books, some pens, and paper, and then wander through the quests to discover hidden or new ideas of the past, the now, a dream, and a future.

I can be used to unlock your creativity, as a therapeutic exercise, or even in your fiction writing (you can run your character through it). I have completed it several times and have always left with something different and worthwhile.

If you have never played a solo RPG, this is a great way to start. It is essentially journaling and creativity prompts structured into a light narrative with a few randomizing elements to relieve the cognitive decision-making load that sometimes stalls us in our tracks.

It is a gorgeous 10-page color doc. I recommend printing it in color, 2-sided, and putting it in page protectors or hole-punched into a binder.

Free to subscribers.

I will link to my website to buy at some point. Maybe I will offer physical copies.

If you would like a copy and are not a subscriber, please let me know.

Creative gamers - feedback is totally welcome!

Enjoy!

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