NEW Q-MoB Queer Men’s D&D Roleplaying Group (Great Barrington, MA)

Q-MoB Queer Men’s D&D Roleplaying Group @ UCC (Pittsfield, MA)
2nd & 4th Sundays (begins 10/26/25)
2:30-5:00pm
South County Recovery Center
67 State Rd
Great Barrington, MA 01230

Join queer men in using a Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying adventure to have fun exploring your many personalities, skills, & passions while getting to know your teammates and unlocking everyone’s potentials. We use a simple, streamlined DC12 form of D&D that is easy for beginners & facilitates the momentum of the adventure.

INTENTIONS OF THIS GROUP:

Join a new kind of Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying (Tabletop) Group where queer men can have fun in a role-playing game exploring your many personalities, gifts, passions, strengths, & avocations, while getting to know an intergenerational group of men who support your exploring the many parts of yourself in the context of a game of self-discovery and adventure. There is a growing movement using in-person Dungeons & Dragons gaming to help gaming and social media addicts learn team work, empathy, and how to develop IRL friendships with your game mates, and how to move the skills & passions you discover in the game into your work and real life.

There are lots of demons and goblins running around in these crazy times, and lots of heroes and changelings, and in this group we'll learn practical skills about how to work as a team, ask for help, and most importantly play with the parts of yourself you may keep hidden or just not explored -- but that could unlock some of your important gifts and passions. We believe Dungeons & Dragons is a great tool of self-discovery and friendship building for queer men. We also believe it can be a pathway out of gaming & social media addiction -- because it allows you to get to know a group of your queer neighbors over time and in more depth than just chatting at a potluck or on a coffee date. And they will get to know you when you are scared, courageous, funny, and playful.

Please register to join the conversation about how to co-create this group.

DUNGEON MASTERS:

Sionainn MacInneirghe, our Dungeon Master, has been playing Dungeon's & Dragons sine he was 8 years old and DMing for many, many years, and he is passionate about the role interactive roleplaying adventures and fun can have on improving your mental health, happiness, and sense of connection with the many parts of yourself and the members of your team. He also has seen how D&D Roleplaying adventures can help you be more confident, cooperative, and effective in all parts of your life that involve working and playing with other humans. For thousands of years humans have used fantasy, roleplaying, & teamwork & play to imagine and create a better world.

Evan Filkins, our Assistant DM, has been playing fantasy games for many years and is excited to be helping the group learn how to use play and teamwork to deepen our connections with one another and with the best parts of ourselves as they get expressed in all parts of our lives. He believes that fantasy and roleplaying are not only fun, but they open up possibilities in our real relationships and how we live the story of our lives.

NEWCOMERS WELCOME BUT NEED COMMITMENT AFTER 2ND MEETING: This group welcomes newcomers, but expects them to come once or twice and then make at least a 3 month commitment to attend the group regularly.

DRAFT SHARED VALUES

1. CONFIDENTIALITY: We agree to maintain confidentiality of what others say in group, and not repeat anything they said in a way that could identify them
2. VULNERABILITY: We agree to share both our strengths, struggles, and specifically what we want to work on in between meetings as a way of practicing being strong & vulnerable.
3. SHARE ONLY OUR EXPERIENCE & VICTORIES & NOT GIVE ADVICE: To create trust among peers, we agree to only share our own victories, struggles, & what we want to work on, and not to give anyone advice. If we want to share our experience & victories with a group member outside of group time, we will ask that member for permission, continuing to remember we avoid giving advice.
4. REGULAR ATTENDANCE: After our 1st or 2nd time, we make a commitment to show up for group regularly for at least 3 months, & to let the co-facilitators know if we have an emergency and can’t attend. We have faith that our input is important and helps the group learn better, so we show up as best we can to share our experience, victories, struggles, & intentions.
5. GROUP SUSTAINABILITY DEPENDS ON CONTRIBUTING SOME TIME & MONEY: To help the group pay its rent and for Q-MoB to be able to promote & support this group with grant & other social media & outreach support, each of us agrees to give what we can at each meeting, which can be a sliding scale of $1-$20 per meeting or becoming a Q-MoB Monthly Donor ($25/mo, $35/mo, or more). We also understand that the group depends on volunteers to help with co-facilitating the group, space setup & cleanup, helping to promote the group by dropping off flyers at places each of goes where queer men might see that flyer, reaching out to newcomers after their 1st meeting, taking photos for social media & grant funding. Q-MoB has grants from Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation South Berkshire Fund and the Berkshire United Way that pays scholarships for men who may find it difficult to donate money. The continuation of this group depends on all members donating some time & money at some point during the month.
6. NO POLITICAL DEBATES OR ACTIVISM: This group is focused on each member's self-discovery journey, strengths, challenges, & priorities, and we are not going to get distracted by discussions of politics or taking political action as a group

REACHING US DAY OF GROUP: If on the day of the event you have trouble finding us, will be late, or have to cancel, please call Sionainn at 413-717-9951

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

South County Recovery Center, 67 State Road, Great Barrington, United States