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How ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ can support education outcomes 

Playing D&D can foster the development of literacy, critical and creative thinking, and ethical understanding skills. 

Literacy 

Through the role playing encouraged by D&D, players are developing the knowledge and skills required to access, understand, analyse, and evaluate information, making meaning from activities and discovering ways to apply these to their lives beyond school (ACARA, 2021).

Critical and creative thinking 

In addition to the inherent development of literacy, D&D players are also honing their critical and creative problem-solving abilities (ACARA, 2021). In our research into learning experiences in D&D, many players indicated that critical and creative thinking were two of the most important real-life skills learnt through D&D play. 

Ethical values 

As noted by Pat Thomson (2002), each student brings to the classroom a diverse array of knowledge, experiences, and dispositions based on their unique upbringings. To explore nuanced ethical issues successfully in the classroom, as per the Australian Curriculum, students must ‘develop an awareness of the influence that their values and behaviour have on others’ (ACARA, 2021). D&D presents many opportunities for players to openly discuss and navigate complex ethical issues.