Overview
Using Comics to Create Tabletop Roleplaying Games with Daniel Locke and David Blandy explores how comics creators can expand their work into the rapidly growing world of tabletop roleplay. With the mainstream success of shows like Stranger Things and the global popularity of Critical Role, tabletop RPGs have moved firmly into the cultural spotlight. Comics and roleplaying share a natural synergy: both build worlds, develop characters, and invite audiences into immersive storytelling.
This session will demonstrate how comics creators can translate their existing worlds, characters, and artwork into playable tabletop experiences. Through case studies, practical advice, and accessible tools, participants will learn strategies for adapting visual storytelling into game design, reaching new audiences, and creating collaborative narrative spaces around their work.
Ideal for comics artists, writers, and storytellers interested in expanding their creative practice, this session will provide inspiration, resources, and practical starting points for bringing comics worlds to life at the gaming table.
This activity will be supported by Daniel Locke, an award wining graphic novelist and role playing game artist and David Blandy, an award winning roleplay game designer.
This workshop is aimed at those aged 16 and up. There is limited capacity for this, so advanced booking is essential. The workshop will take place on Saturday the 19th of September and commence at 2pm and last for 2 hours. We advise you arrive 10-15 minutes early.
Bios:
Artists David Blandy and Daniel Locke have been collaborating on multiple projects for the past decade, alongside their own solo art practices. Making art around environmental science, collaborating with communities and directly addressing climate change, their work includes the graphic novel, Out of Nothing, published by Nobrow; the role-play games Eco Mofos!! and Lone Eons. Together they run Copy/Paste Co-op where they have launched a new table top role play game adventure series, Islands of Weirdhope, coming soon in Autumn 2026!
Daniel Locke’s graphic novel Two Heads, was published by Bloomsbury in the UK & Scribner in the USA. He has collaborated with a wide range of researchers and artists on a diverse series of projects, including Scribner, Bloomsbury, Nobrow, The Nib, Arts Council England, The Wellcome Trust, NHS, and The National Trust.
David Blandy has exhibited and performed at venues nationally and worldwide, including Tate Modern, London; Serpentine Gallery, London; Towner Gallery, Eastbourne; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Art Tower Mito, Tokyo, Japan; Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland & PS1 MOMA, New York, USA.
Image credit:
Image from Islands of Weirdhope: Artwork by Daniel Locke. Published by Copy/Paste Coop