Permission to Play: Utilizing Dungeons and Dragons in the Play Room


| ERIKA WALKER, LSCSW, LCSW, LICSW, RPT-S™, CADPT-A C


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Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) is a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG), which is played with a pen/pencil and paper rather than on a board or with cards. It was developed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in 1974 because they wanted to play the characters they read about in fantasy novels. Traditionally, the game is played on a gridded map, where players move miniatures that represent their


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