AbstractIdea: Levelling Them Up - How 80's Roleplaying can Transform Your Team

levellingThemUp-abstract.md

You have more amazing people working in your team that you realise. The problem is, they probably don't realise it either; yet. This session will show you how framing career development as being like creating and progressing a Role Playing Game (RPG) character gives fantastic results.

As developers none of us are lacking in imagination – many love to geek out in fantasy / sci-fi worlds. So let’s steal a bunch of useful "rules" from RPG character creation / progression at the core of EVERY 80s ROLEPLAYING GAME EVER and apply it. This entails:

• base characteristics - the appreciation these give of the balance of abilities, inherent and learned
• experience, its value and "spending" it
• specific skills - their range, and relevance
• “careers” - their constraints and longer-term paths they open up

By the end, you'll be ready to rock. Then just sit back and wait for a level 7 Necromancer to emerge...

rolling a Role Playing Game

I think you meant "playing" instead of "rolling?"

Thanks for your comment @elazar, I actually do mean "rolling" as in the act of creating a character, but I realise now what I wrote isn't very clear. I'll update it.