Drop In and RPG

Drop In and RPG:Public drop in role-playing games programs provided by the non-profit charity RPG Research. We offer a variety of Role-Playing Game community programs open to the public.

Schedule: January - April 2023

LOCATION: WEST CENTRAL SPOKANE: SPARK CENTRAL

Address: 1214 West Summit Parkway, Spokane, WA, 99201, United States 509-279-0299 info@spark-central.org
  • Public Drop-In and RPG:1st & 3rd Saturdays 1-4 pm

    • LOCATION: East-Central Spokane RPG Center

    Address: 101 N. Stone Street, Spokanee, WA 99202, info@rpgresearch.com 509.608.7630.
    The RPG Centers are wheelchair accessible facilities, and we provide many other accommodations and adaptive equipment for a wide range of disability needs to facilitate participation in our programs

  • Drop In and RPG
  • Fridays 3:30 pm to 8:00 pm
  • Saturdays 12:30 pm to 5:00 pm

  • Tolkien Society Public Monthly Meetings
  • 2nd Saturdays 1-3 pm at the RPG Center

  • American Sign Language Weekly Public Practice Group & ASL Social
  • We need more financial donations to cover power bill, insurance and other epenses before we can resume these weekly American Sign Language public practice sessions, watch for updates

  • Deaf & Hard of Hearing American Sign Language RPG Sessions
  • We need more financial donations and new schedule pending training new ASL Game Masters

  • Optional RPG Sessions for Blind & Visually Impaired
  • We try to make our facilities and programs accessible for everyone, but some time the main community space can be quite noisy, and this can be challenging for some. So we also offer separate rooms or times for those people who would benefit from such adaptations.
  • We need more financial donations Pending wait list sign up

    • LOCATION: DOWNTOWN SPOKANE RPG RESEARCH OFFICES

    1312 North Monroe Street, Suite 114, Spokane, WA, 99201
  • BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT / APPOINTMENT ONLY

    • LOCATION: ONLINE PROGRAMS

  • New schedule pending, watch for updates here soon!

    • LOCATION: POST FALLS RPG CENTER

    Pending additional donations/grants

    LOCATION: COEUR D'ALENE RPG CENTER

    Pending additional donations/grants

    LOCATION: TRI-CITIES WASHINGTON RPG CENTER

    Pending additional donations/grants

    LOCATION: SEATTLE WASHINGTON RPG CENTER

    Pending additional donations/grants

    LOCATION: PORTLAND OREGON RPG CENTER

    Pending additional donations/grants

    LOCATION: MISSOULA MONTANA RPG CENTER

    Pending additional donations/grants

    ABOUT OUR HIGHLY TRAINED GAME MASTERS AND FACILITATORS

    All of our volunteer game mastes and facilitators undergo the most extensive training available in the role-playing game industry. Each GM trainee undergos a year-long training program toward each level of their training diploma. During their training, they begin helping with our community programs, under the guidance of higher-level supervisors and peer trainees. All of our volunteers undergo regular background checks. We train our game masters in a wide range of different game offerings to appeal to every age and play style. See the list below for the game offerings available at each level and the locations where they are available.

    GAME SYSTEM, SETTING, & ADVENTURE OFFERINGS

    We train all of our volunteer staff on a range of role-playing game systems, settings, and adventures. Some are available at all of our locations an online, and others of our staff have experience with many other games that we only offer at the RPG Center.
    For quality control purposes we provide extensive training to all our Game Master (GM) volunteer trainees, which take quite some time to complete at each level of training (typically 1+ years per level). This means that we have pecific offerings from different game system tier rankings.
    The Level 1 Trained GM Game offerings are standardized trained games for quality control purposes and are generally available at all of our community physical locations as well as our online programs.
    Higher level game offerings depend on availability of our higher level trained Game Masters. Additionally we are also constantly evaluating new games. Many of thse games that we are evaluating are only exclusively availabe at the RPG Center.

    Level 1 GM Game Offerings

    LEVEL 1 2nd Edition GM Game Offerings generally available at all of our locations and online programs.
    TABLETOP RPGs:

    1. Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game (BFRPG)
      • Bear Dungeon
      • Gold in the Hills
    2. No Thank You Evil (NTYE) with LRPG additions
      • Your First Adventure!
      • Dragonsnot Falls
      • A Race Against Time
      • Its Raining Cats and Dinosaurs
    3. Doctor Who Adventures in Time & Space (DWAITS)
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    4. Top Secret: New World Order (TS:NWO)
      • White Queen
    5. Adventures in Middle-earth
      • Eves of Mirkwood
    6. Dungeons & Dragon 5th Edition
      • Saltmarsh
    7. BECMI Basic D&D (RPG Center only)
      • Introductory Adventure


    ELECTRONIC RPG:
  • NeverWinter Nights: Enhanced Edition (RPG Center only)
  • Audio RPG: (RPG Center only)


    • Solo Adventure Books & Modules and Group Hybrid SABM
  • Fighting Fantasy adventures


    • Solo Interactive Fiction and Hybrid Group IF:
  • Chooseable Path Adventures
  • Choose Your Own Adventure



    • PRIMARY (Level 1 3rd Edition Staff) Game Offerings in addition to the above (becoming available after May 2023 pending staff training)

    1. Basic Fantasy RPG (BFRPG)
      • GM's First Group Adventure (title pending)
      • GM's Second Group Adventure (title pending)
      • Search of Grimfall
      • A Temple of Slides and Ladders
      • Vault of Thaire
      • The One Ring RPG 2e
        • Adapted Eves of Mirkwood (all)
        • Shire Intro Adventures 1-5 (availability varies)
      • Lord of the Rings RPG
        • Adapted Eves of Mirkwood (all)
        • Shire Intro Adventures 1-5 (availability varies)
      • The Labyrinth RPG
        • Introductory adventure
      • The Dark Crystal RPG
        • Introductory adventure
      • Golden Sky Stories RPG
        • Introductory adventure


    Live-Action RPG (larp):
  • The Hirelings


    • HYBRID RPG OFFERINGS:
  • Talisman: ....
  • CYOA: ....


    • Additional Optional Level 1 GM Offerings (availability varies)

      • BFRPG: Castle by the Sea
      • BFRPG: Slavers Fortress


    Level 2 GM Game Offerings

    Currently, Level 2 and higher GM game offerings are only available at the RPG Center.

    1. Star Wars
      • Star Wars d6 Intro
    2. Stargate SG-1
    3. Kids on Bikes
    4. Star Trek Adventures
    5. BECMI Basic D&D (or BFRPG equivalent if available)
      • B11
    6. Dungeons & Dragons (D&D)
      • Dragonlance Prelude 1 "Broken Silence" (currently evaluating)
      • Dragonlance Prelude 2 "Eye in the Sky" (currently evaluating)
      • Dragonlance Prelude 3 "Scales of War" (currently evaluating)
      • Dragonlance "When Home Burns" (currently evaluating)
      • Candlekeep Mysteries (currently evaluating)
      • Wild Beyond the Witchlight (Currently evaluating)
    Solo SABM or Hybrid Group SABM:
  • Fabled Lands
  • BECMI Basic D&D (or BFRPG equivalent if available)
    • BSOLO
    ELECTRONIC RPG:
  • Dragon Age (RPG Center only)
  • That Dragon Cancer (RPG Center only)
  • Life Is Strange (RPG Center only)
  • VR: (RPG Center only)
    • Live-Action RPG:
  • Hybrid RPG:

  • Level 3 GM Game Offerings (availability varies)

    1. D&D
      • Dragonlance Campaign continued?: Shadow of War (currently evaluating)
      • Dragonlance Campaign continued?: The Norhern Wastes (currently evaluating)
      • Dragonlance Campaign continued?: City of Lost Names (currently evaluating)
      • Dragonlance Campaign continud?: Siege of Kalaman (currenly evaluating)
    2. Pathfinder 1x & 2x
    3. Bubblegumshoe
    4. FATE & FATE Accelerated (various settings: Dresden Files, Crescent City, and others)
    5. Call of Cthulhu 7th edition
    6. Diceless RPGs
    7. Amber (Diceless) TRPG
    8. Lords of Gossamer & Shadow (Diceless) TRPG
    9. ... (Diceless)
    10. Star Wars d20 Intro
    11. Star Wars FFG Intro
    12. ...

    Higher Level GM and/or Evaluating Game Offerings Offerings

    Depends on staff availability, and only available at the RPG Center.
    1. One D&D and Dungeons & Dreagons (6th Edition)
      • Lost Mines of Phandelver
      • Dragon of Icespire Peak
      • Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
      • Strahd
      • Fae ....
    2. Starfinder
    3. Twilight 2000 1st, 2nd, or 4th edition
    4. Avatar The Last Airbender
    5. Critical Core RPG
    6. The Expanse RPG
    7. Dune RPG
    8. A Song of Ice & Fire (Game of Thrones) RPG
    9. InspireIsles
    10. Mouse Guard
    11. Thieves World
    12. Star Wars d6
    13. Star Wars FFG
    14. Rolemaster
    15. Middle-earth Role-Playing (MERP)
      • GURPS
        • GURPS Lite
          • Discworld
        • GURPS (full)
          • Cops
          • Old West
    16. Robotech RPG
    17. Battletech RPG
    18. Mechwarrior RPG
    19. Cyberpunk RPG
    20. HERO System RPG
    21. Babylon 5 RPG (original, d20, d20 second edition, and Traveller)
    22. Boot Hill
    23. DragonAge TRPG
    24. Numenera RPG
    25. Battlestar Galactica RPG
    26. Supernatural RPG
    27. Firefly RPG
    28. Serenity RPG
    29. Vampire TRPG
    30. Vampire LRPG/Larp
  • and many others!


    • In addition to the open Drop In and RPG Programs below, also see our other programs schedule here:
    RPG Research Other Programs Schedule

    Spokane/ Eastern Washington Areas

  • East-Central Spokane at the RPG Center:
      • Fridays (weekly): 4-8 pm
      Saturdays (weekly): 1-5 pm
    THE RPG CENTER & RPG MUSEUM: 101 NORTH STONE STREET, SPOKANE, WA 99202
    https://rpgcc.org

  • West-Central Spokane:
      • First & Third Saturdays: 1-4 pm
    SPARK CENTRAL: 1214 WEST SUMMIT PARKWAY, SPOKANE, WA, 99201
    https://spark-central.org

    Tri-cities and Central Washington Areas

    pending resumption

    Bellingham, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Vancouver, and Western Washington Areas

    pending resumption

    Post Falls, Coeur D'Alene, & Northern Idaho Areas

    pending resumption

    North-Central Oregon Areas

    pending resumption

    Portland and Northwest Oregon Areas

    pending resumption

    Boise, Southwest Idaho, and Eastern Oregon Areas

    pending resumption