LIS10ers Welcome!
Thank you so much for your support! And welcome to Live Interactive Storytelling!
You're probably wondering what's coming up and where to start, especially if you're here early!
LIS10 is based here at www.mickryley.com, you can always access the most recent lessons from the homepage.
For Patreon LIS10ers, you can access your Worksheets directly from Patreon.
There are some additional pages, areas, and communication methods that will be rolled out as we pass certain milestones.
The Framework
I've designed LIS10 as a 10 level curriculum that can be embarked upon by someone with absolutely no experience in running Live Interactive Storytelling.
While the stereotype of LIS10er may be someone already familiar and enthusiastic about TTRPGs, this is a space equally welcoming to interested parents looking to connect with their kids, or creatives looking to expand their team building and communication skills.
The main Curriculum is starting at Level 1 and working forward from there to ensure no-one is left behind, while the Workshops are bespoke to the requests of you - the LIS10ers, and stand separate from the Curriculum.
The Curriculum
Each Level of the Curriculum will have 25-30 lessons, these range from storytelling techniques, to challenge design, to social skills, to meta concepts that will help you more accurately define and fulfil your goals.
Here's a sneak preview of some of the upcoming topics for Level 1:
Worldbuilding [1.12]
Story Arc Design [1.20]
Finding Players [1.5]
How to Challenge [1.4]
Good, Evil, & Motivation [1.17]
Character Design [1.24]
3 Acts in 3 Hours [1.8]
Tackling Burnout (Self Care) [1.18]
Evoking Emotional Investment [1.23]
Setpiece Showdown [1.30]
Ideally every lesson will eventually be accompanied by a video, and your support on Patreon is directly enabling their creation!
However to ensure a steady rollout of the Curriculum, each entry will release as a Text Article that will pop up on your homepage each month. The Video versions of each lesson will roll out more slowly as support increases.
Each Article is accompanied by follow up prompts and/or exercises, as relevant to the topic being discussed that I highly encourage you to work through to solidify your own takeaways and learnings for that week!
You can keep your responses secret, or submit them to me for follow up feedback in the collective feedback post. (Feedback submissions will move to Discord at a milestone, for now they can be submitted privately via the Feedback form.)
The Workshops (Awaiting Milestone)
Each Workshop is a short self-contained video series addressing a specific concept, the first covering the creation of an 8 episode/session experience - which appropriately will be in the form of 8 Workshop episodes.
The workshops will roll out over a period of months to allow ample time for each video to be posted, received, and reacted to by you - the LIS10ers - and then your responses and follow-up can be directly taken into account and addressed in the following episodes.
When an entire Workshop is complete it will be sold as a package on the Store, such as for gifting non-LIS10ers, but as a LIS10er you will always retain access.
What else?
Most important to me is ensuring that those of you who care, those of you who are here - the LIS10ers - are being heard and feeling truly satisfied by the direction I'm heading.
Whatever your niche of interest is, whether it changes with time or stays locked in, let me know!
I want to hold no assumptions or biases towards one system or way of doing things over another. So if there is something esoteric you want covered, perhaps the fallout of a game mechanic in your TTRPG of choice, let me know and I'll contextualise it in a wider lesson that is approachable to everyone!
I want this to be a place to spread positivity and joy in Storytelling, and I can't thank you enough for joining in!
I hope to see you stick around as LIS10 grows, and if you have a wider interest in my other interest, check out my other articles!
See you next time,
Mick