What is the Lucca Comics & Games Online Role Donors project and the National Transplant Center, with the collaboration of Players VS Coronavirus?
Last year we told you about the Players VS Coronavirus collective, on the occasion of their online role-play sessions to counter the Covid-19 pandemic. This year, however, Players VS Coronavirus will collaborate with Lucca Comics & Games and the National Transplant Center in a new awareness project: Online Role Donors!
In this article we will talk about the Online Role Donors project, its objectives and the fun activities that will be proposed to you.
Online Role Donors and raising awareness of organ and tissue donations
As described also on the Lucca Comics & Games website, Donatori di Ruolo Online is part of the #donatoridiruolo project.
The first phase of the project: #donatoridiruolo and RPG Night Live
#donatoridiruolo, which you can read more about Thu, is the contribution of Lucca Comics & Games / Lucca Changes to “We give the best of us”, ie the national campaign for the donation and transplantation of organs and tissues. Therefore, #donatoridiruolo was carried out in collaboration with the National Transplant Center and started on 15 October 2020.
Initially, #donatoridiruolo consisted of a series of appointments on the Twitch channel RPG night live, in which Nicola DeGobbis of Need Games facilitated Cyberpunk Red to a number of prominent guests, for a total of three role-playing sessions.
Currently, however, #donatoridiruolo has entered a new phase, namely that of Online Role Donors, in collaboration with the collective Players VS Coronavirus.
The new phase of the project in collaboration with Players VS Coronavirus
In 2020, Players VS Coronavirus was created by the association Other When Onlus for, quoting their words, “shorten distances, avoid isolation and allow as many people as possible to play together”. Furthermore, one of the collective's goals was to make their online role-play sessions a permanent event, so that immunosuppressed people could always play safely.
This year, however, Players VS Coronavirus collaborates with Lucca Comics & Games and with the National Transplant Center to propose a series of online role-playing sessions. The peculiarity of these sessions will lie in the fact that they will generally focus on the theme of organ and tissue donation. In this way, it is hoped to sensitize the community of players and role-players to the topic, using the game as a medium.
The Online Role Donors calendar
The roleplay session calendar is visible at this link and will be updated every week, indicating the titles, dates and times of the following week's sessions.
At the moment, therefore, we have the titles that will be proposed in the week that will go from 9 to 17 January. You will be able to consult them also on the relative Facebook event, but for convenience we also report them here.
Saturday January 9
- 18.00 - Giacomo Querci di Storytellers of Worlds, Mouse Guard;
- 20.45 pm - Giovanni Tagliaferri of Storytellers, Cyberpunk - Not the End;
- 20.45pm - Logan Laren Liuzzo de The Griffin Guild, Coriolis - The third Horizon.
Sunday January 10
- 10.30 - Gilbert Gallo, Deadlands - Savage Worlds;
- 20.45 pm - Edoardo Gazzoni of Wyrd Editions, Shadow of the Demon Lord.
Monday 11 January
- 20.45 pm - Marco Valerio Rossi of RPG Addicted, Rising Champions - Sports Manga Setting - System Forged in the dark.
Tuesday 12 January
- 20.45 pm - Nicola Santagostino of Tin Hat Games, epigoni;
- 20.45 pm - Marco Marinelli di Tou.Play, Cyberpunk Omen.
Wednesday 13 January
- 20.45pm - Massimiliano Maugeri di PvsC, Cyberpunk Red [4-session campaign]
Thursday 14 January
- 20.45 pm - Marco Valerio Rossi of RPG Addicted, Rising Champions - Sports Manga Setting - System Forged in the dark.
Friday January 15
- 21.00 - Mariangela Montenero, [mini-campaign of 2 sessions] Armakitten - Cats Vs Trump;
- 20.45pm - Marco D'Ascenzo di Nerdy Roulette, City of Mist;
- 20.45 - Giacomo Querci di Storytellers of Worlds, Old School Essentials.
Saturday January 16
- 20.45pm - Michela Giannoni di Gamer_Mom, Tails of Equestria;
- 20.45 pm - Vania Castelfranchi with elish;
- 20.45 pm - Giovanni Tagliaferri of Storytellers, Cyberpunk - Not the End;
Sunday January 17
- 20.45 - Fabio Catania, D&D 5 ed;
- 20.45 pm - Marco Valerio Rossi of RPG Addicted, Rising Champions - Sports Manga Setting - System Forged in the dark;
- 20. 45 - Dario Elefante of Tou.Play, D&D 5 ed;
- 20.45 pm - Matteo Petrangeli of Wyrd Editions, Shadow of the Demon Lord + Alien.
How to register for an Online Role Giver session?
If you want to take this opportunity to address the issue of organ donation and / or to try the proposed role-playing games, you can sign up for one or more sessions.
Registration is completely free and to do it just fill in THIS FORM.
The sessions will all be held online, on the Players VS Coronavirus Discord server, which you can find at this link, its This Page or to the QR Code you see above.
And what do the Atlantean Seekers do?
As you will have easily guessed from the presence of our logo in the poster of the project, we Atlantis Seekers will also participate in Online Role Donors.
In fact, we will bring a themed one-shot towards the end of January. We will reveal more information next week!
