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Wisconsin Adventures Educational Materials
Grades 5+
Multiple Class Periods
Welcome to a new way of learning!
Wisconsin Adventures combines Wisconsin’s history and legends with the deep learning opportunities at the heart of fantasy role-playing games. Developed for the 50th anniversary of Wisconsin-born, world famous tabletop roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons.
Get the ModulesPut on your best half-plate, prep your spell book and pack your rope, adventurer, it's time to roll your D20 through the scenarios of this Wisconsin based game.
Wisconsin Adventures combines the myths and legends of Wisconsin’s past with immersive learning opportunities of fantasy roleplaying in these 5e compatible adventures from the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Students engaged in the playful learning that is the basis of Wisconsin Adventures will be immersed in literacy skills, social studies, and mathematics. From reading for information to creating their own narratives, Wisconsin Adventures places learning at the heart of the stories the students make for themselves.
Within each adventure, players interact with Wisconsin mythology and explore recognizable locations. The history, geography, and setting of each is provided, as well as a complete list of Wisconsin Academic Standards that can be met within the structure of role-playing games.
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Dreams & Nightmares
The circus is in town! A town beset by unknown forces, horrifying creatures rising from the depths, farmers under siege, a watery quest for true love, and more.
Welcome to Barribault!
Pay your coppers and step into the big top to see Silver King, the world's greatest show horse! Lions and tigers and bears and specters and wait... what?
Dreams & Nightmares is designed to take your players from levels 5-8.
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Myths & Legends
A werewolf on the prowl frightening travelers along a dark road; a ferocious lizard-like creature that feasts on livestock by the light of the moon; a knight errant on a quest to save the village from an ancient curse, and more.
Somewhere down below you hear a low groaning noise. Is it the wind? Mustering your courage, you proceed. Did anybody bring a torch?
From the tiny village of Wade to an assault on an ancient keep full of monstrous terrors, explore the lands of Wisconsin you only thought you knew!
Myths & Legends is designed to take your players from levels 1-5.
5e Compatible One-Shot Adventures
The Cheese Stands Alone
Welcome adventurers! In this scenario you will be helping Willy Dee deal with a rat problem in his cheese cellar.
The full game Wisconsin: Myths & Legends is not required to play this adventure. This adventure may be played as 5e compatible or as a mini-game. Art for the mini-game was created using Adobe Firefly.
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There's Something in the Dairy Air
Nestled among the rolling hills surrounding Oxblood, Steve and Bab’s dairy is known far and wide for its delicious cheeses and freshly whipped butter. Bucolic violet and clover covered hillsides dotted with cows of as far as the eye can see, scents of lilac wafting in the breeze, the dairy is, in normal times, a scene of idyllic country living. These are not normal times...
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The History of the Game
Did you know that this groundbreaking tabletop fantasy game originated in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin? Co-creators Gary Gygax (Wisconsin) and Dave Arneson (Minnesota) and their cohorts developed D&D incrementally over several years, and Gygax’s company, Tactical Studies Rules (TSR) published the game rules in January 1974. D&D, which allows players to inhabit characters who journey through worlds of magic and mystery, is considered the first modern role playing game (RPG). Players work together to defeat monsters and win treasure, as they strive to overcome challenges laid out for them by a Dungeon Master (or DM).
In its 50+ years D&D has grown from a niche hobby played by a handful of war gamers into a worldwide phenomenon played by an estimated 50 million people!
The Wisconsin Historical Society has an ambitious effort underway to collect meaningful D&D artifacts and oral histories to help share the stories of the game that has brought so many people together.
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Collectors edition white box set of original D&D module published by TSR Hobbies Inc., Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 1977. This example is from the sixth printing of the game first published in 1974. WHM object F2023.52.1a-f
Wisconsin Content and Standards
Within each adventure players will interact with characters inspired by historical figures, Wisconsin mythology, and actual locations. The historic background of each is provided at the end of the module, as well as an extensive list of English/Language Arts and Social Studies standards that can be met within the structure of the game.
Compatibility: This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 (“SRD 5.1”) by Wizards of the Coast LLC and available at https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document. The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.
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