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Hi! Haven't posted much lately as I've been super busy with work, running social skills groups, being invited to work on a very exciting game design opportunity I can't talk about, and writing the Caravan Endures. And on that last part, I've moved on

One thing I've been asked about a lot when designing sessions for my social skills group is how I plan things. There's a lot of different schools of thought, and I see a lot of people using the lazy DM guide model, but the

Had a great chat with David, the Chief Librarian at the Tacoma based Library of Alexandria, an organization that provides a retro RPG library at conventions but also runs games at homeless shelters and boys and girls clubs. Really fun conversation! https://www.twitch.

As quarantine continues, many games have continued to move online, but with no end to COVID-19 in sight, the mental strain of social distancing is impacting more people than ever. Once Summer ends and shorter days and frequent bad weather become the norm, people

Quite by accident, I began writing a TTRPG. I misinterpreted a game jam concept, and began writing ideas, and filled with inspiration, and what was a simple idea turned into a whole RPG, which I have christened The Caravan Endures. It is a teamwork

One thing I get asked a lot for is advice on starting your applied RPG group. A solid start can spell the difference between a group that lasts a quarter, and a group that lasts for years, so it's very important to be incredibly

The Podcast Untenured Tracks interviewed me and several other therapeutic DMs, Dr. Megan Connell, Amelia Herbst, & Jamie Flecknoe, about how we use D&D in our various practices! Listen here: http://scatterbrainradio.com/blog/2020/06/15/e38-applied-gaming-and-gaming-as-therapy-w-dr-megan-connell-amelia-herbst-peter-jung-jamie-flecknoe/

I recently wrote about how I put together a proposal to do Dungeons and Dragons groups for my primary job, a medicaid funded nonprofit family behavioral health agency. Eager to reach this population that generally can not afford social skills groups or group therapy,

The original round tableIn the time of COVID-19 and convention cancellations, most if not all opportunities for applied and therapeutic DMs to interact and network in person have been limited, and as such I have decided to start hosting regular DM round tables. The

Orcs is currently trending on twitter. From what I can gather, it's backlash after someone took a page from a 5e handbook stating that orcs were bloodthirsty due to genetics, and declared it racist. Since then, there has been a huge onslaught of (mostly

Yesterday, I ran a DM round table/training on using lesson planning tools for session planning. While it was a bit of an odd mix between a winding conversation between a bunch of therapeutic and applied DMs, there was also some structure around discussing

As COVID-19 spreads, a lot of people are finding really creative ways to move their work and play online, but in a lot of cases, this feels like reinventing the wheel. This has absolutely been true with my teen social skills group, but yesterday

One of the questions I get the most often, as far as running social skills groups is this: How do I get my players to talk to each other (and not me, the DM)? It's a valid question. I've had a lot of students

Hi all. I know things are really scary right now with the outbreak, and a lot of us are practicing social distancing either through choice or government orders. This is very important, and we need to all be doing our part to flatten the

Not that community. (Image from NBC's Community)I've been meaning to set up D&D social skills groups within the community mental health agency I work at for some time. The agency focuses on high need children and their families within the Pierce

One question I've gotten a lot is “How do I do what you're doing?” and it's making me realize I should have written a post about this question a long time ago, as I feel that the core of the question is 'How can

I posted a request to Twitter asking for Nonviolent D&D encounters suitable for a therapeutic group, and the tweet sort of blew up a bit with people sending in ideas. So, I decided that there was definitely enough demand to come up

Happy New Years! It's been a while since I've posted, but a lot of that has been because I've been busy with my community mental health job. However, this has given me a lot of time to look at the complex needs of kids

Creating character driven plot elements is always a challenge with any game, but when working with a social skills group, it's both important for building engagement but also encouraging interaction at the table. Last night marked my last session for my social skills group,

I haven't posted much lately, because frankly, this quarter has been one of the most difficult quarters I've run. I had three consecutive sessions go poorly, where it felt like the group was just out of control, kids were getting escalated, and I had

Just wanted to post to let readers know that I haven't abandoned this blog, even though I haven't posted in a while. My new job in community mental health has left me very busy, and I've been working on a project for assessing student

I'm featured in the trailer for the Lost Odyssey event, which includes a mini-documentary on D&D and autism, here: https://twitter.com/BeadleAndGrimm/status/1183790085017423873 EARLY BIRD PRICING ENDS TOMORROW for @lostodysseylive! Get your tickets at https://t.co/mrIPghmmeG Join @DeborahAnnWoll

No post this week- But here's a newly published interview I did with @heyDrWil for the podcast Untenured Tracks: https://untenuredtracks.podbean.com/e/e6-practice-being-someone-who-cares-w-peter-jung/ Would love to hear your thoughts, hit me up on twitter at @rollforkindness!

I never read this book, but I imagine it helps understand roads. (Source: The Road Ahead.)This is going to be a little different than my usual posts about gaming advice, but I think that from time to time, a bit of personal reflection

PAX West 2019 was an absolute blast. I met a lot of amazing people, got to volunteer with Take This, an absolutely amazing org that does mental health advocacy in the gaming community, and sat on not one but TWO panels. Also, my gaming