About Role Play Experience
ROLE PLAY EXPERIENCE provides groups of teams opportunities in group storytelling through the activity of tabletop role-playing games (TTRPG’s).
TTRPG’s provides a fun, safe, and dynamic environment for groups of Players to learn and grow together:
By championing the value of learning through play in a safe, creative and encouraging environment
By walking in someone else’s shoes, building skills in empathy and understanding in seeing themselves, the world, and other Players through new perspectives
By enjoying the freedom to imagine by creating their own characters, stories, and solutions to a variety of situations & challenges
By exploring limitless possibilities, and considering “What if..?”, using the tools and creative concepts of RPG’s
By expressing themselves to grow self-confidence, resilience and trust through shared challenges, failures, and triumphs
By facing challenges through collaboration, sharing goals, learnings, stories, memories and experiences together
These activities can be a focus for a memorable, imaginative shared experience with a group of friends, or tailored into experiences with the aim to develop team bonds, creative thinking, problem solving, open-mindedness, and collaboration.
We believe the activities that Role Play Experiences provide can change, people, teams, and the world for the better.
What are role-playing games?
Tabletop role-playing games (or RPG’s) provide a rich environment for group storytelling. Players adopt a role of an imaginary character living in a created setting, often fantastic or perhaps just outside their everyday world. Together with their team of fellow players and guided by a referee (or games master), they explore strange environments, encounter a diverse range of characters and creatures, and face challenges of all kinds on order to achieve a pre-determined heroic goal.
In addition to providing the participants hours of creativity and enjoyment, skills and techniques in role-playing have been developed over thousands of years. Theatre and performance disciplines across the world have explored the human condition through the use of role-play and performance, thrilling audiences and some of the most memorable stories in human history.
Today, role-playing techniques and games are now well-documented as educational tools for learning, critical thinking, compassion, and team bonding. Organisations are finding the value of implementing role-playing scenarios to develop their individuals and teams, through therapy, training, and exemplify the value of collaboration to achieve their goals and vision.
Dungeons and Dragons (aka D&D) is one of many role-playing games played around the world. No win its 5th Edition, it was the first product to be given the title “role-playing game” when it was launched in 1974, and many consider it to be the grand-parent of modern role-playing games (RPG’s).
"At its core, Dungeons & Dragons is a group storytelling game. You can think of it a lot like a collective choose-your-own-adventure book. One player prepares a fantasy story of sorcery and adventure, then the rest of the players take charge of characters in that story and gather together—preferably around a kitchen table—to cooperatively tell the tale.
“THE BEST WAY TO DIP YOUR TOES IN THE ROLEPLAYING WATERS IS TO EXPERIENCE IT, TO PLAY IT, OR AT THE VERY LEAST, WATCH IT BE PLAYED."
- “SO YOU WANT TO PLAY DUNGEONS & DRAGONS”, POPULAR MECHANICS
What is Dungeons & Dragons?
Behind Role Play Experience:
Games Master Ian Zammit
Ian is a professional Games Master for Role Playing Games, and has a passion for connecting people through stories and the use of play to better our society. He has played and refereed role-playing games for over thirty years, including major campaigns of Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, Shadowrun, and Low Fantasy Gaming.
Through Role Play Experience he has partnered with Penrith City Library and Headspace to facilitate introductory games of Dungeons and Dragons for young people, and has run introductory games for new players of all ages through Collector Con Penrith and Campbelltown. Ian has also facilitated workshops for corporate clients, including Storytelling modules at the heart of Bija Yoga teacher training and Leadership through Performance Skills for the teachers of Grace Village Early Learning Centre. Ian has current Working With Children certification and Public Liability Insurance coverage for role-playing game, performance and workshop activities.
Ian’s background is in performing arts practice, management and education: awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Drama & Theatre Studies from Middlesex University (U.K.), and certification in Training & Assessment in Adult Education from CBD College in Sydney, Australia. Ian was co-founder and director of Emu Heights Theatre Company, providing live performances of plays on the HSC English curriculum and engaging 5,000+ students over 5 years from the Western Sydney region and beyond. He was proud to take on the role of Theatre Programs Coordinator for Q Theatre and the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre in his home town of Penrith, delivering a range of educational theatre making workshops and activities to children aged 5-18, people living with disability, and seniors. He continues theatre work as the Front of House Manager of Rooty Hill’s Sydney Coliseum Theatre.
Ian’s activities champion the creative and collaborative concepts and values that Role Play Experiences provides: that group storytelling can change people, businesses, and society, for the better.
