Introduction to Role-Playing Games (RPGs)

With Orçun Can.

Step into the world of imagination, collaboration, and live storytelling!

This Introduction to Role-Playing Games (RPGs) workshop invites you to create characters, build worlds and tell a story together. No experience required. Whether you’re a total beginner or RPG-curious, you’ll learn how these games work, why they’re such powerful storytelling tools, and how they can be used in creative practice, teaching, and team-building.

Come play, improvise, and discover how stories come alive together!

Orçun Can is a writer and a lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. His research and teaching focus on the intersections of digital storytelling, media theory, and the evolving cultures of online platforms. With a background in narratology and the digital economy, he is particularly interested in how stories are shaped, distributed, and experienced in interactive and networked environments.