Story Teller’s Guild Summer Camp

Stories define how we think about other people, ourselves, and the world around us. To take control of a story is to take agency; to make a story together is to work toward a new world. In this two-week camp, we will tell stories together using dice, a deck of playing cards, tokens, coins, a Jenga tower, tarot cards, and (above all) the cooperative power of our own imaginations.

Dungeons and Dragons is the most famous (and by many metrics the first) tabletop RPG; we will not be playing it. We will instead dive into the vibrant world of modern indie role-playing games, with everything from local designer Caro Asercion’s city-building game i’m sorry did you say street magic to the tarot heist hijinks of Royal Blood to the one-of-a-kind legacy RPG Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast. No prior experience with roleplaying games is required to partake; complete beginners and RPG veterans alike are welcome!

Camp runs 10am-4pm Monday-Friday for two weeks, June 9th-20th. Entry for the full two-week program is $650 and includes lunch each day (food and drink) and snacks. There are five spots total in the camp. To sign up, please fill out this Google Form and then we will email you a link for payment. Email contact@victorypointcafe.com with any questions!

The Program In Detail:

For the first week, we will spend our mornings exploring worldbuilding games and work together to make rich cities, worlds, and settings all our own. After the lunch break, we will play a “oneshot,” or a self-contained story, of a different game each day. Exact offerings will depend on the tastes of the group we get!

For the second week, campers will choose one of the oneshot games we played to expand into a five-session campaign. In the mornings, we will continue to try out new oneshot games, but our afternoons will feature a longer story that digs deeper into the mechanics and potential of the game the campers have selected. 

About Your Game Master:

Rory Dreyfus (he/him) is the puppeteer behind Victory Point’s numerous daily events, as well as a part-time elementary school TA. While he isn’t scheduling TCG tournaments or evaluating paper airplanes, Rory has spent the past few years running various tabletop RPGs at VPC and beyond.