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Role Playing Games in therapy


Table Top Role Playing Games have exploded in availability and popular over the past several years, and are playing a larger role in management of mental health, trauma recovery, and other areas of treatment. RPGs can help with communication, social skills, bonding, processing trauma, addiction recovery, and more.

Check out the links below to find a growing list of RPG resources, Game reviews connected to clinical applications, live-play videos, and current groups being formed.

If you are interested in sharing information about specific RPGs or joining or forming a RPG group please reach out (hit the “Contact” link up above) and let’s chat.

Click here to learn more about joining a therapeutic rpg group

videos

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Live-Play Sessions (from The Podcast)

Game Reviews & possible applications for healing

Free Games (by Dwight)

Please download, use, share, and hack for your own versions. I would love to hear about your experiences.

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Renfield & Sons, Vampire movers: help a vampire to safely relocate to a new home.

(CLICK HERE to view on drivethroughrpg.com)

H-E-Double: Players show up to a neighborhood barbecue, only to find themselves trapped in a place a bit hot, even for a late summer afternoon.

(CLICK HERE to view on drivethroughrpg.com)

Lepra-Can OR Lepra-Can’t?: st patrick’s themed hunt for a pot of gold, a competitive one-shot game.

(CLICK HERE to view on drivethroughrpg.com)

A bunch of santas: Christmas mash-up of various movie santas on an adventure across the santaverse.

External resources

lasers and feelings: One of the great one-page game by John Harper, also a great system for your own game design

oh dang! Bigfoot Stole My car with my friends birthday present inside: a fun one-pager by weird age games trying to find bigfoot…and your car

honey heist: Grant Howitt’s fun RPG game about bears robbing a honey convention

Lady blackbird: John Harper’s website with 3 different steampunk games, free download

freeform universal: highly adaptable system for creating your own adventures, by Steffan. O’Sullivan. Basic rules are free.

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