Welcome to the Generosity Roundtable wiki. Pull up a chair. Every table we set keeps one chair open on purpose. We call it the Empty Chair, a rule we carried back from the Nordic live-action roleplay community, and it is an invitation to whoever is not in the room yet. That open seat is also the whole plan. What we are building toward is a trained Host and an open chair in all 3,144 counties and county equivalents in the United States by 2036, a table for generosity in every county, and it starts this GivingTuesday on December 1. This wiki is the shared rulebook for the people who will set those tables. ![[The Empty Chair - a table in every county.png]] *The Empty Chair, our ten-year vision: a trained Host and an open chair in all 3,144 U.S. counties by 2036, starting this GivingTuesday.* The Generosity Roundtable is a facilitated discussion game designed to help organizations practice the conversations they need to have before the stakes are live. In 20 to 30 minutes, a table of three to six players working through character-based archetypes can surface real values conflicts, name real limits, and reach genuine consensus on a direction worth trying. It is not a workshop. It is not a simulation. It is practice, and the evidence it produces comes from inside the room. This wiki is the deep resource for everyone who plays. If you are [[The Host]] preparing a session, you will find everything you need to understand the structure, the tools, and the decisions that shape what a table produces. If you are [[The Guest]] building a character or trying to understand your archetype more fully, the lore is here for you to go as deep as you want. If you are someone who just played for the first time and wants to understand what just happened, start with [[Why We Play]]. The game is built on the Generosity Spectrum, a framework for understanding how people relate to the work of generosity across the full range of ways human beings invest their trust, their time, and their moral energy in the collective project of making things better. The archetypes at the center of the game are expressions of that spectrum. They are not personality types. They are patterns, and most people who spend time with them will recognize both themselves and someone they work with in at least two or three of them. Everything here is a living document. The game is young, the community is growing, and the wiki will grow with it. Pages marked as drafts are accurate to the best of current knowledge and will be deepened as playtest data accumulates. If something you read here does not match your experience at the table, that gap is signal worth paying attention to. Start anywhere. The [[Archetype Cards Overview]] explains the theory. The individual archetype pages go deep on each character. The [[Scenario Cards Overview]] tells you what situations the game is built to navigate. The Mechanics section covers every tool the Host and Guests have available. And if you want to understand the soul of the whole thing before you read anything else, go to [[Why We Play]]. Everything in this wiki points at one thing. Every page that makes a session easier to run is a page that helps someone set a table where there was not one before. That is what we are building toward, an open chair in every county, and the rules you are reading are how we get there together. We are climbing in stages, on purpose, from a Gatherer in every state to the Community Compact at 500 Hosts, where the network gathers to decide what comes next. ![[The Empty Chair - the road to 3144.png]] *The road to 3,144, built in stages. A Gatherer in every state first, steady footing at 150 Hosts, the Community Compact at 500 where the network decides together, and a Host in every county by 2036. We put the floor value of training one Host well at $500.* Glad you are here. Pull up a chair. **NOTE:** *This wiki is in a draft phase and will be finalized together with the Host Network, which launched publicly on October 1, 2026. The Empty Chair is our ten-year vision, a trained Host and an open chair in all 3,144 U.S. counties and county equivalents by 2036, and it begins with our GivingTuesday campaign on December 1, 2026. At 500 Hosts we hold the Community Compact, where every Host and community member gathers to decide what comes next, and these rules get finalized together then. If you have any questions about rules or mechanics, reach out to Tim.*