Meet your Game Master and Trainer
Hi, I’m Michael, and I’m the one running the adventure as your narrator, game master, and skills trainer.
I was an avid tabletop roleplayer as a teenager, and – quite frankly – it was these games that got me through some rough times.
When I first watched the epic show Critical Role for the first time in 2021, I had already been a confidence trainer for five years and had worked with over a thousand clients from all around the world. But when I saw this game in action again after so many years, a thought struck me:
“This is the perfect way to train social skills!”
I’ll talk more about why that is in the Play section.
Once that thought saw the light of day, things have been in motion. I even built my very first bookshelf all by myself (talk proud moment here!) to make room for all the stuff.
During a psychology conference, I found out that there is actually already a name for what I wanted to create: it’s called Therapeutically Applied Tabletop Roleplaying Games. Or TA-TTRPG for short (ok, admittedly, not that much shorter!)
I went through the training with Geek Therapeutics in 2023, and I am now a certified Therapeutic Game Master (note the fancy badge I got)!
If you would like to learn more about me outside of TA-TTRPGs, I invite you to watch a talk that I gave at TEDxVienna, and/or to get in touch!