RPGaDAY 2019
14: GUIDE
Girl Guides, Boy Scouts, and young people going on adventures.
Seeing Guide in relation to RPGs, I can’t help but think: “I am Dungeon Master, your guide in the realm of Dungeons & Dragons!”
Which may well be a reference to what Dave Chapman points out in his post for the day, a lot of RPG books are called Guides, all the way back to the Dungeon Master’s Guide forty years ago.
So to discuss something different, here in the UK we have Girl Guides as the equivalent of Boy Scouts, rather than Girl Scouts. They do a lot of the same kinds of things - camping, outdoor and indoor activities, crafting, community service. Less of the preparing for war in Europe than when they were originally founded. But in the event of getting stuck in the great outdoors, a few of those merit badges and that sense of responsibility are likely to come in handy.
Decades after being a Cub Scout, I think I could get a fire started without a lighter. (And possibly build a pinhole camera, though that may be less helpful.) It’s also given me a small sense of what the outdoor adventuring life would actually be like - that cooking would be a pain, for one thing.
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