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There's recently been a lot of discussion about the difference between running a therapeutic game and a non therapeutic game. One of the key pieces that a therapeutic game requires is that the DM is some type of licensed mental health professional, but that has left a lot of other

A typical world building session (Source: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)One thing I've been spending a lot more time with over the summer has been working on world building, and realizing the fantastic potential for building engagement and ownership with the world. Furthermore, from the perspective of the Dungeon

Quick post! I'm on two panels at PAX West 2019- Therapeutic Dungeon Master Round Table: https://west.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/roll-for-healing-therapeutic-game-master-roundtable Development and Dungeons and Dragons: https://west.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/roll-for-healing-therapeutic-game-master-roundtable Very, very excited to be on these panels, and hope to meet some amazing people there!

Short post today- I've been busy trying to put together a Spanish language learning group, but in the mean time I've been recently working on building material for the Microlite d20 system- specifically relatively generic NPC, dungeon, and town templates for my own random generation. I'm slowly putting together a

Tired: Playing to kill orcs Wired: Playing to learn SpanishRecently, an article [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-07-08/how-to-be-a-professional-dungeons-dragons-master-hosting-games] came out in Bloomberg about the rise of the professional Dungeon Master, citing one Dungeon Master who pulls in $500 per session. After this came a deluge of DMs advertising

No post this week, but, I did contribute on a discussion on workplace burnout culture in the linux/tech community- check it out, here:

My first real cosplay changed my life.A lot of people in the RPG mental health field do a lot of talking about LARPing, and while I don't have any experience in that, I can attest to the power of cosplay. I cosplayed for about 20 years, but one of