​The TTRPG Collaboration Workbook

The TTRPG Collaboration Workbook is a short interactive zine with guidance and exercises to help organize your first collaborative TTRPG project. It contains insights from my work organizing folks on projects as diverse as founding intentional housing communities to creating online courses. Woven throughout are the learnings from leading Encounters in the Radiant Citadel, a ten-person collaborative D&D project that’s sold hundreds of copies on DMsGuild. Based on the Project Managing for TTRPG newsletter series, this worksheet-based zine will cover:

• Choosing a collaborative project

• Making a simple project plan

• Reaching out to collaborators

• Processes and tools for writing together collaboratively

Look out early 2024 for the Lead Your First Collaborative TTRPG Project Course on the Storytelling Collective.

The Format

This zine was originally part of the 2023 Big Bad Con Zinethology, with a limited print run for Big Bad Con supporters by the amazing folks at Tabletop Hotdish. It is a large zine: each page is 8.5 by 11 inches.

This is for a PDF version of the zine, though it can (and is meant) to be printed and journaled in.

About the Creators

Author and Illustrator

Lyla McBeath Fujiwara is a Massachusetts-based TTRPG writer, project lead, and 2023 Storytelling Collective Creative Laureate. She's had many past lives, from teaching high schoolers in East Africa to eight years in tech, where she worked as a developer for Google News and created mobile programming online courses that taught hundreds of thousands of students. Her TTRPG work includes Jukebox: The Karaoke Musical Roleplaying Game (itch.io, DriveThruRPG), Encounters in the Radiant Citadel (DMsGuild), and Out of Luck (DMsGuild). In her off hours she can be found throwing lopsided ceramics and cooking feasts for her cooperative house. 

Editor 

Taylor Navarro is a Hispanic- British freelance TTRPG game designer, editor, and project manager. She began her career as an editor and project manager in 2020 with The Book of Lost Magicka (DMsGuild). Most notably, Taylor has been a recipient of the Big Bad Con POC Scholarship (2022), the senior editor on Journeys Beyond the Radiant Citadel (DMsGuild), writer and senior editor on Encounters in the Radiant Citadel (DMsGuild), and producer for Tales from Sina Una (Kickstarter, Hit Point Press). Outside of work, Taylor enjoys naps, knitting and crochet, playing Apex: Legends with her husband and her sister, and playing Minecraft with her kids.