The efficacy of tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) as an educational and therapeutic asset in schools has been extensively studied, with many middle and high schools employing these games as extracurricular activities because of their positive impact around identity formation, empathy, and social skills. More recent iterations of tabletop RPGs are also being intentionally designed to encourage thoughtfulness, experimentation, and creative problem solving. The designers of game playbooks detail cooperation, compromise, intentional direct action, consensus building, and imagination as explicit goals and outcomes of playing tabletop role-playing games. While not explicitly intended as such, the dynamics of games like "Dungeons & Dragons (D&D)" give players a chance to experience deliberation around something they are personally invested in within a low risk environment.