Episode 354: Spirituality Check: Spiritual Growth, Exploration and Healing Through RPGs
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Show Notes
Recorded at Metatopia Online 2021
Presented by Menachem Cohen, Ryan Cagle.
Because of the fictional distance between player and character, TTRPGs, even D&D, can be designed and used to facilitate spiritual growth, exploration, and healing. Mechanics, role play, and setting/story also factor into this and GMed, GMful/less, and solo games work in this context. Panelists will discuss how they have designed and used games for spiritual discovery and address theoretical underpinnings of why it works, such as bleed and alibi. There will be time for questions.