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by hawke — last modified Jul 24, 2012 03:38 PM
Here you will find various essays and reports directly from the RPG Research Project members.
Older Drafts — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Dec 06, 2011 01:50 PM
File RPGR-A001 An Overview History and Potential Therapeutic Value of Role Playing Gaming version 3 PDF — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Dec 11, 2011 10:33 PM
File RPGR-A002 Potential Benefits and Deficits of Role-playing Gaming — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Feb 05, 2012 07:27 PM
There are very few social table-top recreation activities available that are cooperative rather than competitive in nature. Role playing gaming is by design a cooperative past time, which in and of itself may have significant benefits in the world where everything is becoming competitive at all ages and levels of society. Jessica Statsky, author of the essay Children Need to Play, Not Compete, expressed her concern about the over-competitive attitude towards play, and lack of cooperation-based activities by stating: “Their goals should be having fun, learning, and being with friends. Although winning does add to the fun, too many adults lose sight of what matters and make winning the most important goal.”
File RPGR-A003 The Defamation of Role-playing Games and Gamers version 3 PDF — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Dec 11, 2011 10:32 PM
File RPGR-A004 Role-playing Games Used as Educational and Therapeutic Tool for Youth and Adults version 2 PDF — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Dec 11, 2011 10:30 PM
File RPGR-A005 Personalities and Alienation of Dungeons and Dragons Game Players long commentary version 2 PDF — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Dec 11, 2011 10:31 PM
File ASL-RPG-FLYER-Ver-2-20111212b.pdf — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Dec 12, 2011 01:03 AM
File Deaf-American-Sign-Language-RPG-Ver-2-20111212b.pdf — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Dec 12, 2011 01:04 AM
Why People Like to Participate in Role-playing gaming activities. — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Oct 24, 2012 09:49 AM
The following was triggered by the common question in a forum on the geekandsundry.com website. A forum member posted that they were a frequent board game player, but did not understand what it was that people enjoyed about role-playing games, and asked for someone to clarify. I rounded up a number of the quotes on the rpgresearch.com website, and using a combination of the quotes and paraphrasing, tried to put into my own (and others') words this complex subject fitting roughly onto just one page. I hope it sufficiently lays out the fundamentals of this interesting and intricate topic.
Web Page versions of the RPG Research Project documents — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Oct 23, 2012 02:48 PM
Role-playing Games Used as Educational and Therapeutic Tools for Children, Youth, and Adults — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Jan 24, 2013 03:24 PM
An essay written in 2008 providing examples of existing efforts, and potential possibilities for using role-playing games with children, youth, and adults for education and therapy.
Role-Playing Gaming Therapeutic Recreation Handbook of Practice Drafts — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Jan 17, 2013 11:50 AM
Here you can find the current working drafts of the theoretical RFC proposing establishing role-playing gaming as an accepted form of therapeutic recreation, mapping it to the ICF codes following the format of the 2010 Recreational Therapy Handbook of Practice (by Porter and Burlingame). PDF and Online versions will be posted here. Hopefully a wiki version can be created to allow care professionals to help comment and revise sections towards a workable whole. This is an Alpha stage (software development term) of RFC (Request For Comments) and not to be taken as an established professional document. This document is created by the founder of the RPG Research website, please see the DIsclaimers and Staff section regarding W.A. Hawkes-Robinson's current lack of current credentials (current in progress as an undergraduate).
List of Currently Known RPG Therapy Programs — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Jan 24, 2013 02:46 PM
Here you will find listings of past, or current, RPG Therapy programs from around the world. If you are aware of the use of Role-playing Games games for specific therapeutic goals, please post a comment here with the information, or email ( rpgresearcher at gmail dot com ).
List of Currently Known RPG Educational Programs — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Jan 24, 2013 02:07 PM
Here you will find listings of past, or current, RPG Educational programs from around the world. If you are aware of the use of Role-playing Games games for specific educational goals, please post a comment here with the information, or email ( rpgresearcher at gmail dot com ).
List of Studies on RPG for Populations with Pschiatric Illnesses — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Jan 30, 2013 02:56 PM
Here is a list of studies that used Role-playing gaming for populations with confusion or disorientation to their reality such as persons with psychiatric illnesses or dementia.
Non-role-playing games — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Feb 05, 2013 03:19 PM
Here is a section for miscellaneous non-RPG's.
Resumes — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Mar 02, 2013 12:48 AM
Various resumes
RPG TR for TBI — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Mar 11, 2013 11:31 PM
A folder for information on using role-playing games as a recreation therapy intervention for traumatic brain injury clients.
RPG Research Questionnaires — by Hawke Robinson — last modified Apr 28, 2013 03:16 AM
Drafts of questionnaires for the RPG Research projects.
Heroes of Gaming — by Hawke Robinson — last modified May 18, 2013 04:44 PM
This is a TODO placeholder for an idea. Hopefully I can get this completed mid-June. This came up in a website discussion. While there are a number of lists on famous celebrity gamers (this site included), how about a list of military and other heroes that are admitted gamers (world-wide)? This is a place-holder for this idea. Hopefully over time I can gather enough submissions from folks that are happy to be listed as gamer, and their rank, position, etc. One more effort to try to reduce the myths about what kinds of people are gamers, and open more peoples' eyes to the joy of this recreational activity known as role-playing gaming...