Mental Health & Creativity Collide

Episode Five: The Dungeons and Dragons Dudes!


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Join us for our fifth episode with the Dungeons and Dragons Dudes!

Mental Health and Creativity Collide is about celebrating inspiring stories through the lens of mental health and creativity. This week's episode features Benjamin, Christian, Andrew, Jason, and Sam. Friends who have been meeting weekly to play D&D online each week during the pandemic and how this has supported their friendship, mental health, and creativity.

We talk about the stigma on D&D, masculinity, creativity, characterization, and they even do a demonstration of how a live role playing game works!

What is Dungeons and Dragons you ask?

"The core of D&D is storytelling. You and your friends tell a story together, guiding your heroes through quests for treasure, battles with deadly foes, daring rescues, courtly intrigue, and much more. You can also explore the world of Dungeons & Dragons through any of the novels written by its fantasy authors, as well as engaging board games and immersive video games. All of these stories are part of D&D."- www.wizards.com

Resources to start playing D&D, or heighten your current experience:

- DNDBeyond.com

- Roll20.net

We go live every other Thursday on The Network’s Twitch channel. If you want to watch the live video stream, ask the guests questions in real time, or be a part of a community that values mental health and creativity we would love to have you! New to Twitch? It’s free and amazing, you can find us here: https://www.twitch.tv/the_hope_for_us_network

You can also watch the video component of our show on The Network's Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzn3JNEuo4Q&t=5049s) after it has aired.

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Mental Health & Creativity CollideBy Kate Marie Smith