Spirituality Check: Spiritual Growth, Exploration, and Healing Through RPGs.

A couple years ago I got to lead a panel at Metatopia 2021 alongside my friend Rabbi Menocham Cohen where we talked about the theory and practice of using tabletop role playing games for the work of spiritual discovery! You can watch this pannel below!

Panel description: “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.”