Knowledge Adventure Club

Knowledge Adventure Clubs are the intersection of book clubs and Dungeons and Dragons. Joel Hooks idea (2020).

If you haven't played D&D, maybe you've participated in a book club.

as I was reading this wonderful set of Alexandrian patterns from Joshua Kerievsky called Knowledge Hydrant: A Pattern Language for Study Groups it struck me: D&D and book clubs are very similar.

It gets even more interesting when you apply the depth of thought that exists on the internet around designing and running a successful D&D group to creating and running book clubs and study groups.

We can study the patterns of Game Masters to design and faclitate shared-learning experiences that can have a huge impact.

Recently I've been GMing Knowledge Adventure clubs through some of my favorite frameworks for creating and running an independent business.

WTF is a Knowledge Adventure Club?

*From my experience with both D&D and book clubs, there’s another similarity:

Nobody wants to be the game master. 😱

Why not? It’s a lot of fuckin’ work, that’s why lol

But being the game master is also incredibly rewarding*

*Book clubs aren’t as “classically fun” as Dungeons & Dragons, but learning new skills and growing with a smart group of people is a lot of fun. Leveling up together and sharing the thrill of cracking open an entirely new universe of knowledge?

Badass.

That’s where you get the Knowledge Adventure Club.*