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Peter

A simple dungeon master trying to change the world, one dice roll at a time

Screentime and Mental Health Summit

This last week, I had the opportunity to attend the Screentime and Mental Health Summit, hosted by Bright and Quirky [https://hub.brightandquirky.com/summit-2023/]. It was a series of ~45 minute long video interviews from various screentime experts (although some of them I would describe as 'experts') about the

Losing the ableism within RPG social skills groups

Losing the ableism within RPG social skills groups

When people think about therapeutic RPG groups, they're usually thinking of autism social skills groups. The idea of using D&D, a well loved game within the autism community, to teach autistics how to socialize better? It's obvious! It's amazing! It's widespread! It's an easy fit! It's also rooted in

UW Story Corp

Been a while since I posted- I've been very busy, and will write a major update of what's been happening soon, but I wanted to share the UW Autism Story's (think Story Corp) interview of me and my cofacilitator Celia. This is really important, as elevating autistic voices, especially those

D&Done

D&D is a bit of a clusterf*** right now with the OGL mess. If you've been hiding under a rock, there's new info every day, but here's [https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/01/game-makers-stage-mass-exodus-from-dungeons-dragons-open-license/] a pretty good write up on what's going on, with major news outlets starting to

Rethinking Autistic Social Skills (video)

Realized I hadn't shared my video of the talk I did for the Southwest Washington Autism Coalition's annual conference on rethinking autistic social skills. Check it out!

University of Washington Tacoma Interview

I'm on the cover of the UWT's website, both as an article and a podcast! Check it out [https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/news/world-builder]!

Lessons from Applied Games

Recently an article came out in Wired about therapeutic gaming [https://www.wired.com/story/therapists-dungeons-dragons-tabletop-games-helping-people/] , and since then there's been a lot of focus on people using D&D and TTRPGs within therapeutic contexts. While I am absolutely for people using RPGs therapeutically, I feel like focusing exclusively on