Role-Playing Game Research - Status Update on the Role-Playing Game Professional Books, Apps, and more
The Third Edition of the Role-Playing Game Professional training programs, books, workshops, mobile and web apps, are nearing publication and release to the public very soon. Here is an overview.
Greetings everyone,
We have been incredibly busy and heads-down working on the Role-Playing Game Community Center facilities, and the new Third Edition of the Role-Playing Game Professional (RPGP) training programs, workshops, workbooks, study guides, instructor manuals, online Learning Management System (LMS), mobile and web apps, and much more.
https://rpg.llc/role-playing-game-professional-overview
One of the biggest changes with the RPGP program is a switch from the more college-academic style to a more "Trades Professionals" approach. With advancement now more along the lines of the Trainee, Apprentice, Journeyman, Mastery model that we hope will be more accessible to far more people than the academic model.
The websites still have a lot of work left to finish updates about the new Third Edition, so please pardon the contradictions on the websites mixing content between the older editions and the new one nearing release, as we scramble to overhaul the scores of related pages to fit the new paradigm.
We have always had significant research and theory in our programs, but we also prided ourselves on the most extensive hands-on, peer-reviewed, and supervised real-world experience not just classroom training, with the most intensive and in depth training offered anywhere for aspiring and established role-playing game professionals.
This is a years-long effort with a MASSIVE amount of work to get all of the moving pieces fully into place, but the core is coming along and I wanted to come up from the intensive daily writing briefly to give everyone a heads up about what we're up to. I have been mostly working 7 days a week, with very long hours, in addition to the wonderful contributions from everyone else, for a long time on this. The first few milestones are now in sight at long last!
As always, this extensive training is free to volunteers who help out at the 100% volunteer-run 501(c)3 non-profit research and human services charitable organization, RPG Research, https://www.rpgresearch.com.
We will be resuming volunteer training, with the new Third Edition program, in either late October or early November).
We have an extensive number of people on the wait list so we're probably going to have to offer multiple training sessions per week to get everyone rolling with the new program as quickly as possible.
We're tentatively planning to offer 3 different training sessions per week once this launches, Saturdays, Sundays, and one week night, to try to accommodate the widest range of schedules.
In addition to the in-person training at the West-Central Spokane and East-Central Spokane facilities, our mobile facilities, our partners at various locations, and the growing list of Role-Playing Game Professional Authorized Service Providers spanning from coast-to-coast, we are going to resume our online training offerings as well.
Highest priority will be given to in-person trainings first, then we'll work on scheduling the online remote training.
The most well-rounded training hands-down is by going through the RPG Research program, you will get the most hands-on experience with the broadest range of populations due to our extensive community programs.
For those that do not wish to volunteer to help the RPG Research community, and have a more extensive budget or employer's covering training, you will want to consider going with training options through RPG Therapeutics LLC at https://rpg.llc
RPG Therapeutics LLC will be starting back up the training workshops based on the new Third Edition program in late 2023 for individuals and organizations that can afford the rates. While the training quality is high, and every effort to get you simulated appropriate experience is made, there is no substitute for being fully in the trenches but we get you as close as possible with the LLC's trainig programs as a more accelerated version of the program.
RPG Therapeutics LLC's training is extensive, intensive, and premium training.
At all locations we have had a number of people attend some of our earlier training editions, or the pilot programs of the new Third Edition RPGP program, who have also been through a number of other organization's paid training. In their feedback they stated things like, "I learned more in just a few of sessions participating in your basic programs than in months, and thousands of dollars, at the other 'advanced' programs". We strive to be the highest standard in role-playing game professional training available anywhere globally, shooting for being second-to-none in depth, breadth, quality, experience, applicability, safety, efficacy, and more.
The supporting materials to the training, testing, certification, diplomas, CEUs, and additional tools included but are not limited to:
- RPG Publishers RPG Professional (RPGP) Workbooks
- RPG Publishers RPG Professional (RPGP) Study Guides
- RPG Publishers RPG Professional (RPGP) Instructor Manuals (limited release/access for RPGP-ASPs)
- Role-Playing Game Professional Authorized Service Providers (RPGP-ASP)
- RPG.Education online Learning Management System (LMS) courses, quizes, and final exams.
- RPG Professionals mobile and web apps
- Game Consent mobile and web apps
- Z-Day City RPG +AR mobile and web apps
- Role-Playing Game Artificial Intelligence (RPG AI) mobile and web apps
- and more on the way!
Volumes I (Part I training sessions 1-4 and Part II training sessions 5-12), II (sessions 13-24), III (sessions 25-36), IV (sessions 37-48), V (sessions 49-72) should be published in the next few weeks, with the subsequent Volumes VI - XI coming out periodically thereafter for the coming months, and Volumes XII - XXI throughout 2024+.
A high-level overview of this extensive Third Edition of the RPG Professional training and advancement program can be glimpsed on the RPG Therapeutics LLC website here:
https://rpg.llc/training/rpg-professional
To be frank, it has been an overwhelmingly huge task, and we have decided to let deadlines slip, in favor of really getting this Third Edition dialed in based on the tens of thousands of hours of feedback from prior participants. See the extensive list of supporting resources for the Third Edition RPGP that are in the works. Some of these are near completion, others will take some months to finish implementing (for example the mobile and web app additions in development). It is entirely possible these deadlines will slip again, but we are working around the clock to get the content finished, based on the continuing stream of peer-review feedback we're getting with every draft through the RPG Research Git Repository, RPG.LLC Git Repository, RPG Publishers Git Repository, RPG Research Wiki, RPGSN.net Chatroom, and other platforms from contributing draft reviewers.
The RPGP programs are heavily research and evidence-in-practice (for over 45 years now), highly peer-reviewed, and iteratively improving constantly.
We look forward to your thoughts, insights, suggestions, and other contributions as we near the launch of this massive program based on the direct experience of more than 100,000 direct participants in our programs over the decades, and the many more indirect contributions.
We are still in the final weeks of the final drafts of Request For Comments iteration (after years of previous rough draft iterations), and are still open for a few more weeks for any last minute fixes or changes before publication. RFC responses for Third Edition Volume I content will stop being accepted by October 15th, 2023. All feedback received after that date (ship to publishers deadline) will be queue up for either a Text Revision or Fourth Edition (which could be years before the 4th edition is published). So please get your feedback in ASAP.
Tis is your last chance to help directly contribute to the Third Edition RPGP Volume I program content before it is 100% locked in. Thank you for all of your support!
Warmest Regards,
-Hawke Robinson
Founder and Executive Director, RPG Research
Founder and CEO, RPG Therapeutics LLC
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Hawke Robinson
Known across multiple industries as "The Grandfather of Therapeutic Gaming" because he has been studying the effects and uses of role-playing games and their potential to achieve therapeutic goals longer than anyone else, Hawke Robinson is a Washington State Department of Health Registered Recreational Therapist.
He has a diverse and deep background in Therapeutic Recreation / Recreation Therapy, computer science, neuroscience, cognitive neuropsychology, neurotech, research psychology, nursing, play therapy, education, music, and role-playing gaming.
- Hawke Robinson has been involved with role-playing games in community settings since 1977.
- Studying methods for optimizing the experience of role-playing games, software development, and online since 1979.
- A paid professional game master since 1982.
- Studying the effects of role-playing games upon participants since 1983.
- Providing role-playing games in educational settings and for educational goals since 1985.
- Working with incarcerated populations since 1989.
- Researching and using role-playing games to achieve therapeutic goals for a wide range of populations from 2 years old through senior adults since 2004.
- Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit 501(c)3 charitable research and human services organization, RPG Research.
- Founder and CEO of the for-profit RPG Therapeutics LLC and RPG.LLC.
- Author of multiple books in technology and gaming W.A. Hawkes-Robinson books available on Amazon.
- Creator of the wheelchair accessible RPG Mobile fleet vehicles and trailers.
- Founder of the experiential learning Role-Playing Game RPG Museum, and much more.
- Creator of the Brain-Computer Interface Role-Playing Game (BCI RPG) and many other related projects.
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