We had the opportunity to talk with Ches Hall over at the +7 Intelligence Podcast about how we use role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons in our therapeutic social skills groups. Some highlights: Therapeutic tabletop role-playing games – what they look like, how they work, and who they help – with Adam Johns and Adam […]
Let me explain. The way that I play is much more about the collaborative storytelling experience and play than it is about the rules of the game of Dungeons & Dragons. I will also freely break rules while running the game, aiming to make an immersive and fun experience for players, rather than always following […]
We received an email that we’ll be returning to present at our fourth PAX West, and our TENTH PAX overall! We’re excited to be back to our home PAX in Seattle. We’ll be hosting two panels this year, with some great panelists! Details below: Release the Minions! Introducing RPGs to Youth Friday, August 31st at […]
The harrowing idea of walking into a Dungeons and Dragons game with very little planned is nearly as nightmare-inducing as the concept that you could spend hours crafting and designing a world only to have your players completely ignore your quest line in favor of the goofy made-up-on-the-spot half-orc that they met at the town library. Let’s […]
It’s nearly the end of our Spring quarter of our therapeutic Dungeons and Dragons social skills groups, and at the end of every quarter we ask this check-in question: The participants answered with heartwarming wisdom and depth. Many of the participants in our groups struggle with some degree of social isolation, sometimes related to […]
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We received a fantastically generous donation from Mike Shea, known on the internet as Sly Flourish, which will enable us to provide D&D Beyond for the participants in all five of our Dungeons and Dragons therapeutic social skills groups! Mike Shea, author of the well-respected Lazy Dungeon Master’s Guide, runs the blog Sly Flourish: Building […]
On Friday at PAX East, we presented our first of two panels, titled “Collaborative Homebrew 101: The Cure for the Common Murder Hobo.” In the panel we discussed the phenomenon of the “murder hobo,” the players in role-playing games who discard whatever adventure hooks the game master has planned, preferring to wander around the countryside […]
We’re heading to Boston tomorrow for PAX East! We’ll be on two panels this year. Our first will be on Thursday at 6:30, titled “Collaborative Homebrew 101: Cure for the Common Murder Hobo.” We’ll be relaunching the panel we offered at PAX South earlier this year, where we collaboratively created a map and adventure hooks […]
We were invited to join Justin Robinson, AKA “The Reverend En Fuego” on BJ Shea’s Geek Nation Podcast to talk about our work using tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons in our therapeutic social skills groups. We had a great time talking about our work, sharing some stories from behind the screen, how we […]