Adventures to Authenticity

Using elements of RPGs and TTRPGs, the latest science, and personal experience, we create a hero’s journey to help others level up in life.

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Your body is designed to transmit your feelings in subtle yet definitely identifiable ways to those around you. When we're upset, do we radiate our anger much like an AOE at those around us?

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Roleplaying characters let us pretend to be someone else, but can they help us to discover more about ourselves while having fun in the game?

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We must take that step over the proverbial threshold to greet our adventure and work towards our dreams. But instead, we do so often hold back and refuse to leave the Shire instead?

Read the full article: Refusal of the Call
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Even though our characters are fictional creations, they become unique three-dimensional personalities intimately known to us as players as we play them.

Read the full article: The Importance of Character Development in RPGs
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#RPG #TTRPG

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In a game, we cast an AOE at hostile creatures within 30 feet of us. But in real life, do we cast our anger in much the same way?

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A 2019 paper found that this ability to see ourselves in our RPG characters can help us develop and improve our own skills of self-reflection.

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We must take that step over the proverbial threshold to greet our adventure. But why do we often refuse to answer the call of our dreams?

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Like those heroes in stories, we had the making of our true selves in our youth.

Read the full article: Reloading Your Starting Character (Remembering Who You Used to Be)
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#millenial #purpose #motivation

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In real life, we also have a main quest to follow.

Read the full article: 10 Rules of Life That I Learned from Gaming
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#videogames #lifelessons #gaming #ttrpg #rpg

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Mental health has often been a part of Moon Knight’s story, but how it has been written and used in his character has evolved over time.

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A 2005 study with Stanford University found that caffeine levels influenced participants’ prospective timing when they were completing a relatively difficult task. Can that afternoon coffee speed up your sense of time?

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From relaxation, self-esteem, family closeness, and socialization, it seems there is something more going on when we feel happy during gaming.

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Facing our fears helps us grow and it also changes our perception of time.

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#time #maketime #slowliving

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If you can imagine yourself as a hero, you already have the ability to become one in your real-life story.

Read the full article: Hero Coaching
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Whether they are an alien from another world or have been granted extraordinary powers at birth, heroes are also like us.

Read the full article: What Your Favorite Hero Says About You
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#heroes #fantasy #superheroes #comics

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Stopping Self-Sabotaging Behaviors

Read the full article: Want to Be Successful? Stop Being Your Worst Enemy
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#selfsabotage #personaldevelopment #selfhelp

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It's hard to turn down that game that's been on our wishlist for six months when it goes on sale for 50% off.

Read the full article: 20 Reasons Why We Buy Video Games that We Don’t Play
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Without being aware of it, we are often pressured into not being heroes by our peers

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According to the Oxford Dictionary, a hero is “a person admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities

Who is your favorite hero?

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Online vs virtual tabletop gaming - How can we find ways to incorporate the best of each into our future games?

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