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Take the Generosity Archetype Quiz
Start here. Five minutes tells you which archetype you lead with — then send the link to everyone you're seating so the table starts with real self-knowledge instead of guesswork.
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Everything you need to host the table.
The Generosity Roundtable is a card-based educational gaming system for nonprofit teams, and a growing network of the people who play it. This site is the free and open home base for Hosts. Never run one before? Start with the three steps below. Guests are welcome here too, and there is plenty to go deep on once you have a few sessions behind you.
New here? Start with this
Your first table, in three steps.
Half an hour of prep is genuinely enough. Do these in order and you are ready to seat a room.
Step 1
Learn the flow.
The quick-start guide walks you from opening the box to running the first round. Watch the tutorial if you would rather be shown than told.
Open the quick-start guide →
Step 3
Build your scenario sheet.
This is the one most Hosts ask for. Write a few lines about the group at your table and the Scenario Sheet Generator picks the cards and writes your opening framing. Download it as one page and bring it to the table.
Open the Scenario Sheet Generator →
Coming to a table as a player instead? Take the archetype quiz or read the rules in the Wiki.
The Archetypes
Meet the ten archetypes.
Every Guest at your table plays one. Knowing what each archetype protects is most of what makes a session land. Click through the deck.
Archetype 1 of 10
The Evaluator
Role in the community
- People come to you asking if something works.
- You look for evidence, results, and tradeoffs.
- You are often asked to compare options.
Connection
You identify with effectiveness and measurable progress.
No compromise
You fear effort that feels meaningful but achieves little.
Host resources
Everything a Host needs, in one place.
Printables, host tools, guides, the wiki, and live events — all free, no gate. Take the quiz to learn your own archetype, build your session sheet with the generator, then print the pages you'll put on the table.
Printable PDF
Character Sheet (v4)
The sheet a Guest fills out to build their archetype, with their Role in the community, their Connection, and the one No Compromise they will not cross. Print one per player.
Download the PDF →Printable PDF
Game Log (v2)
The Host's running record of a session: who sat down, what got played, where the table pushed back, and what you want to carry into the next round.
Download the PDF →Printable PDF
Empathy Map (V1)
An advanced play sheet. Use it to dig into what a player's generosity identity really wants: what they say, think, feel, and do at the table — and why. Best after a group has played a round or two.
Download the PDF →Website
Host quick-start guide
A first-timer's manual that walks a Host from opening the box to seating their first table.
Open the guide →Website
The Wiki
Rules, lore, and every archetype listing in one place. The deep reference when a question comes up mid-game.
Browse the wiki →Live event
National Game Night
A live session at the Nonprofit Social Media Summit. Join the table, meet other players, and see how the game runs in person.
Register →Website
Get Swag
Guest Passes, mugs, and hats — grab the gear that helps you bring the game to your table. More fun stuff is on the way.
Shop the store →
watch and learn
The host tutorial, and every session after it.
Start with the tutorial, then watch real nonprofit teams play: character-building labs, full sessions, recaps, and walkthroughs of the wider world of the game. New episodes land regularly, and gameplay recaps and Library of Generosity listings will be linked here as they publish.
We're everywhere generosity is.
Monthly virtual sessions and in-person tables across the country. Flip through a few rooms that have played, then bring the game to yours.
Advanced Players