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M. Alan Thomas II

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Nov 6, 2016, 4:47:58 PM11/6/16
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The usual odds and ends from online sources:

An old, official D&D podcast about using the game as a social skills teaching tool for children with autism-spectrum disorder: http://dnd.wizards.com/play-events/podcasts-livestream-games/dr-raffael-boccamazzo-dd-and-autism

. . . which led to an article about D&D as therapy (with what may be our own Hawke Robinson in the comments?): http://geekandsundry.com/dungeons-dragons-as-therapy/

. . . has now  into a video discussion of tabletop gaming being generally good for mental health: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd0Xb_jWHg8

A piece on making women feel welcome in convention gaming spaces: http://www.bluestockings.ca/2016/10/playing-safe-making-women-welcome.html

If you're not familiar with the X-card referred to in that piece, here it is: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SB0jsx34bWHZWbnNIVVuMjhDkrdFGo1_hSC2BWPlI3A/edit?usp=sharing

And for a feel-good finale, here's a report on an older group (including a couple in their 70s) playing D&D for the first time and loving it: http://www.tabletopterrors.com/single-post/2016/10/17/70-Year-Olds-Play-DD-for-the-First-Time-and-Love-it

—Alan

M. Alan Thomas II

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Nov 6, 2016, 5:01:38 PM11/6/16
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Oops; I forgot a few items. Here's the rest of the news:

A one-page report from Japan on quality-of-life improvements among children with autism spectrum disorder who play tabletop RPGs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1uVoci2ePQKNFJBSloxR3gxR0U/view

In case you missed it, yet another of our old enemies, Jack Chick, has died: http://www.newsarama.com/31708-cartoonist-jack-chick-passes-away.html

. . . and if you're up for some strange femslash fanfic of Dark Dungeons, here you go: http://blog.fantasyheartbreaker.com/2010/04/21/whatever-happened-to-elfstar/

—Alan
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