oh hello stem leaders and welcome again
my name is Steve Roman and librarian Cal
Public Library and I wrote this book
dragons in the stacks the team
librarians got the tabletop role-playing
games now the reason I love this book
because I think everyone should give
tabletop role-playing games in try just
like there's a book for everybody
there's a role-playing game for
everybody then a whole wide variety of
genres we let your exercise you do
creativity then great way to spend time
it's friends yeah there are a great way
to learn some educational skills but
move beyond little things like basic
math did you learn agency
self-confidence and it'll direct you
toward a degree great even when people
say well playing games most people think
I'm dungeon the Dragons but these are
going to the science fiction
role-playing games we're still already
this family there's also for in fantasy
and a whole bunch of other kinds away
from you I'm here to tell you about
these five science fiction world
penguins that you need to try out this
year oh right now you're gonna recognize
this guy star wars into the empire
now there's two actual books for this
but you're gonna want to try as the
beginner set this is basically
everything you need to start playing
it's got ice in it it's got characters
already made its guess simply simplified
will so you can get going right away
within about 15 minutes after opening
the box really now if you really like it
then you're going to want to go on to
the core role-playing game book but
gives you all the rest of wools and more
than and more besides that you'll need
to play in the Star Wars universe travel
art this is your grand Debbie of science
fiction role-playing games but it is
fantastic because it is it's easy enough
to learn right off the bat no problem
teach people it uses two six-sided dice
you can just wave your monopoly set play
it and on top of that you pretty much
run any science fiction universe you
want one that's already in publication
or one of your own
one of your own design new an arrow now
I love this game this is a far future
science fiction game imagine eight
intergalactic civilizations have risen
and fallen this is the ninth world in
which people don't really understand the
technology of the previous eight empires
so to them well any sufficiently
advanced technology is equivalent to
magic and they you get all the potatoes
left behind and see the part of their
natural wool the Doctor Who role-playing
game now this guy probably needs no
introduction um even though I think
we're two doctors after this point now
and the Doctor Who role-playing game is
a fantastic game with real simple again
runs on gd6 no problem isn't all your
favorite protagonists antagonists in
here you the good guys the bad guys get
your Daleks Cybermen got Doctor Who you
got the companions in here you can play
your favorite characters or make up your
own and there's plenty of stuff online
for free that you can use of all these
things and the last game I want to talk
to you about is a court Firefly the
Firefly weapon game just came out from
Margaret Weis productions and we can
play again all your favorite characters
or bring up new treasures to go running
around the verse and getting all into
all sorts of trouble
you learn a lot of critters SubPop
halogen you're presented with all the
weird situations that you're gonna find
in a science-fiction settings so your
character encounter an alien monster for
the first time what do you do you go for
your blaster pistol or you're a life
saver
you try and communicate with the
creature do you try and sneak around in
the creature so you don't have to
counter it at all what are you gonna do
when faced with this situation these are
the ways you think saves your perfect
creativity and solve these kinds of
problems maybe you'll make a new ally
then you'll make a new enemy but
whatever you do as long as you're having
fun and creating a great adventure
together
