TTRPGs and how they can help you

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Kate Anderson, a former student of Dalhousie University made an article on October 26 2022. The article talked about how various TTRPGs provide benefits to people.

They talk about the collaborative efforts of the Game Master, the various players, and the characters they make to help write stories.

The article explains how people build their social and emotional awareness through the nature of TTRPGs being social games through methods of experimenting with different self and building upon their own various types of self awareness.

They help people find their cliches of like minded individuals and help in fostering a community as they build characters, solve problems, and face threats.

TTRPGs mix interactive gameplay, creativity, experience, narrative storytelling and theatrics to make something unique. The settings and material used for these stories are also factors in this as some games could rely heavily on provided material or instead could be open to theatre of the mind for others.

TTRPGs can boost confidence in players by allowing them more agency and the ability to have their actions influence their world around them.

TTRPGs create safe environments to experiment and try out facets of their own personality, identity, and individuality.

As people play ttrpgs they will come across problems whether it be something like a dungeon, a dragon, a puzzle trap, or something else the people will have to come up with solutions to problems they come across. As such ttrpgs give them the ample opportunities receive or solve these problems one way or another. In hypotheticals of where they fail, it fosters critical thinking and how to better deal with or plan for problems like that or similar.

TTRPGs help give way to improvement and building of teamwork, cooperation, and communication skills as not a single “main character” but as a group of players who can do amazing things as a collective in which they can be proud of.

Kate Anderson’s article not only explains these benefits being shown as traits presented in a manufactured setting, but rather as beneficial skills that these TTRPGs help build and improve upon from each player in a collaborative manner.