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Open source writing module for teachers and parents Free educational tool for improving writing skills and reading comprehension for grades 6-12. Students will develop and write their very own RPG adventure using the included Brains and Brawn system guide as though they are responding to a proposal request from a gaming company. Goblins and Growlers [...]

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ANOTHER (FINAL?) UPDATE: Whoaaaa - with donations rolling in until the end of the year, we've found ourselves at $2000 as of December 27th! Our community is absolutely spectacular! Thank you to everyone who has donated! UPDATE: WOW! After blowing past our original fundraising goal of $500 and several stretch goals, with everyone's help we [...]

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spookytime is afoot 🦶 October is here and even though we're all pretty bummed about the perfect Halloween calendar this year being spoiled by plague and pestilence, we've still got a lot of autumnal festivities planned with our community, including a food festival, spooky Halloween-themed streams, and a costume contest! Join us on Discord to [...]

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SEPTEMBER 3-7, 2020 After many years of attending Dragon Con, being able to participate as panelists on the Digital Media Track is tremendously exciting.  Alain has been going to Dragon Con for over a decade - he considers it such a formative point of reference for his growth as a person, and as a nerd [...]

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We're chatting with Lauren of @feminist.reading.list, one of the founding hosts of our monthly virtual Goblin Book Club! Hey Lauren! Tell us about yourself! Hi! I’m Lauren (she/her), I’m really loving getting to collab with the Goblin crew on book club and some other projects. I a big bookworm and read mostly sci-fi, fantasy, and [...]

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Queen City Anime Con Virtual Panels and Games We are super excited to be part of Queen City Anime Con LIVE, which will run Friday-Saturday, August 14-15, 2020 on QCAC’s Twitch channel. Catch us and our community partners on the panels below! *Panel videos now on-demand below!* FRIDAY, AUGUST 14th Take Your Tabletop Game Online […]

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Your kid is asking you about getting started with Dungeons & Dragons. Maybe they’ve heard some folks talking about it, their friends are starting to play D&D or they saw some folks playing in a gaming store. Whatever the reason, they’re interested in giving it a try. Great! Except for the fact that you don’t […]

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The Premise: Making monsters can seem like a daunting task, especially if you’re not sure where to begin. In this six-part series, I’m going to describe some of my techniques and hopefully give you a framework that you can then use to design your own monsters in your own worlds! We’re going to assume you’ve […]

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In order to do D&D at event spaces again we need multiple things, and we need them in this order: 1. A confirmed case count in Virginia under 500 that is part of a steady downward trend. 2. Venue spaces motivated to have us back, including willingness to put strict safety protocols in place, including […]

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Goblins and Growlers’ leadership are actively engaging as individuals in the ways that we are best equipped to do so which includes marching in protests, fundraising, donating, and being quiet in order to better listen to POC leadership. Black Lives Matter leadership has spoken to the performative allyship of white businesses using this time to […]

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