What are Therapeutically Applied Role-playing Games?

 TA-RPGs involve a facilitator who guides 4-6 clients through a collaborative story-telling experience using Tabletop Role-Playing Games, paper character sheets, and dice to randomize outcomes. Participants will design a character and explore a fictional world created together with their peers. Clients will overcome challenges, fight monsters, search for treasure, solve puzzles, and go on epic adventures with their team! The facilitator will describe the setting in a fun and engaging way using dramatic voices, expressive body language, and occasionally using props (i.e. – a socerer’s hat) as visual cues to assist those who struggle with social cues to represent different characters the players may interact with during their adventures.