About Us

This is a place for people of all types to share ideas, experiences, and gaming and mental health activities. Primarily, it’s a place for people with Bipolar, Anxiety, and, of course, ADHD to share coping tools and management techniques that have allowed them to enjoy hobbies such as war, board, and tabletop roleplaying games to their fullest. It’s also a place to share stories and information about gaming, specifically tabletop-style gaming, whether in person or remotely, and how it can assist with issues relating to mental health. 

It’s also a place to see how individuals with conditions plan and implement projects or events, leveraging their strengths to the advantage of the gaming community. This website is an example, but other things are around, such as our YouTube stream of “Games we want to play before we die,” which provides different examples of creating despite limitations. 

Awareness, education, and entertainment are things to strive for. Those elements depend on each other to create an environment, whether around a table in person, playing online with people half a world away, or LARPing in a Waffle House, where everyone can enjoy themselves to the fullest. We hope we help people along this path, even if it’s just a few steps.

With over 42 years of experience in all forms of tabletop gaming and 40 years of experience as a Game Master, Michael is well-versed in many games, including miniature, board, war, and role-playing. As a convention organizer, playtester, and event GM, he understands time management and how valuable the time we get to participate in a hobby like this is.

He believes gaming is primarily about having fun, and roleplaying is about an interesting and exciting story. Managing expectations and what people desire from the game is essential to ensure everyone has the best time possible. He also understands that managing your state and emotions is crucial to keep things in check. Since gaming is something people have to do with other people, and it’s much more interactive on the social level than most types of hobbies, ensuring we are at our best is essential. While this sounds simple, it can often be tricky and overwhelming. 

This site is an example of how working with conditions like ADHD can create positive experiences and manage unique difficulties that must be overcome. Hopefully, Michael can do what’s needed. 

Richard is an actor and singer with degrees in Spanish and History, which he turned into a career in Information Technology. For the past decade, he’s been working in the non-profit world, using data to inform the effort to end homelessness. And through it all, he’s played role-playing games. We’re talking at least four decades here.

He and Michael met in college when Richard’s love for gaming blossomed. His game experience includes the usual D&D that every gamer of a certain age plays, Star Frontiers, and GURPS (Generic Universal Role Playing System) with a smattering of other systems here and there. He’s never been diagnosed but shares some experiences with people who have attention deficits, who are on the autism spectrum, or who have obsessive-compulsive disorder. He has lived and gamed with people who have various diagnoses and so has experienced dealing with such conditions “from the other side.”

Wang Chung best expressed Richard’s gaming philosophy in 1986, “Everybody Have Fun Tonight.” His professional philosophy is “I’m here to help.” This website is the intersection of the two.

People often feel lost in the crowd of games—busy game shops with internal cliques. Isolated local groups exist in a vacuum, never touching the greater gaming community. The fear of online social interactions like gaming with people you have never met. 

Playing AD&D with ADHD is a place for people to share their tools and techniques for dealing with these situations. It also shows examples of how people with ADHD, BiPolar, and Anxiety manage projects and events.