Enlarge / Researchers say that Dungeons & Dragons can give autistic players a way to engage in low-risk social interactions.Nicole Hill/CC BY-SA 4.0
Since its introduction in the 1970s, Dungeons & Dragons has become one of the most influential tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs) in popular culture, featuring heavily in Stranger Things, for example, and spawning a blockbuster movie released last year. Over the last decade or so, researchers have turned their focus more heavily to the ways in which D&D and other TRPGs can help people with autism form healthy social connections, in part because the gaming environment offers clear rules
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