Roleplaying Therapy for the Severely Disturbed: The Video!
WARNING: The linked video contains bad language, bad behavior, and is generally NSFW.
At long last, our 2010 edition of Roleplaying Therapy for the Severely Disturbed (formerly Out of the Box Roleplaying) is available for your online viewing pleasure.
The premise is that the characters are all adventurers with various mental disorders or strange personality flaws and that they arrive at an institution for help from Dr. Dante (me). The panel did not disappoint, they dutifully ignored my plot (so badly that I clumsily had to wrap things up at the end of the session) and hijinks ensued. I enjoy getting the opportunity to bring this particular brand of crazy to GenCon each year.
Our intrepid panel this year consisted of: Dave The Game, Bartoneus, Chris Sims, and Phil The Chatty DM from Critical Hits, Graham from Critical Ankle Bites, Micah from Obsidian Portal, e from Geek’s Dream Girl, and everybody’s favorite switch-hitter Vanir from StupidRanger / Critical Hits.
Everyone was throwing the heat this year… there was an amnesiac that swore she was married to someone on the panel, severe multiple personality disorder, a minotaur supremacist, a patient dead set against authority, a shardmind that went to pieces collecting different phobias, a puppetmaster, and a maniac that needed to be in the spotlight and climb the walls. Literally. Vanir rounded out our motley crew by reprising his role as Black Rainbow, a dangerously insane overweight druid that hates plants. He ended up anger-humping melons. Yes, you read that correctly. I think we’re going to go with less character sheets and less plot and more semi-structured craziness, that seems to be where it ends up anyway!
Thanks to the panel, and thanks to the great crowd for putting up with our filthy brand of insanity. Also thanks to Carson from Role-Playing Discussions, who annually presents the Carson F. Ball Worst Pun of the Year award. He’s a force of nature when it comes to terrible puns, so he knows his stuff.
Anyway, the event was great fun and we’re looking forward to it next year!!