News
Request For Comments on Role-Playing Gaming Therapeutic Recreation Handbook of Practice Drafts
A dedicated section of the site has been setup for this proposal and drafts. Both as a repository for PDFs and Wiki pages for more direct community involvement. As I continue to peruse in depth the Recreation Therapy Handbook of Practice, and tracking the sections of the book that could use role-playing gaming as a treatment (see my eaarlier posting notes for example), I'm considering trying to take on the (overwhelming) task of creating an RPG specific version of the book...
Scott Thorne's thoughts on the future of the RPG market.
He points out the 80/20 factor, that 80% of the market is controlled by the top 3 (or so) products, and all the remaining products only account for 20% of the sales. He also comments on the continuing downturn of paper RPG sales, but the increasing up swing in eBook RPG material...
For the Third Year in a Row, Hobby Games, Including Role-playing Games, Up Again
As reported in 2010 and 2011, hobby games, including role-playing games, have now had three years in a row of booming sales growth, while the video game industry was reporting declines in 2010 and 2011 (not sure yet about 2012). Much of the boom this year is being attributed to the additional promotion of "Tabletop" the show by Wil Wheaton from the GeekAndSundry.com website created by Felicia Day...
Another Year With Board Games Up While Video Games Down
Last year we reported on the article regading board and hobby games, such as role-playing games, sales numbers were up in 2010, while video game sales were down. 2011 repeated this trend again according to the industry magazine Internal Correspondence ICv2, "
12-year-old uses Dungeons and Dragons to help scientist dad with his research
The paper describing the results—delightfully entitled “Monsters are people too”...
BBC - What happened to Dungeons and Dragons?
By Darren Waters - BBC News Online - Monday, 26 April, 2004, 12:40 GMT 13:40 UK. In the 1980s millions of teenagers world-wide would battle dragons armed with just dice, paper and pens. D&D became part of youth sub-culture but as the game celebrates its 30th birthday, is anyone still playing?
Israeli Army Frowns on D&D Players
By Hanan Greenberg - Published: 02.28.05, 14:17 / Israel News - IDF says “They're detached from reality and suscepitble to influence,” regarding role-playing gamers and so D&D players are automatically given a low security clearance...
PBS Idea Channel mentions RPG Research
Last week the PBS Idea Channel ran a piece on Dungeons & Dragons benefits. Today they responded to comments from last weeks video, and mentioned in the comments section of their video (towards the end of the video on Justin Bieber), mentioned RPG Research and suggested people should check out the website.
RPG Research Registration and Questionnaire Now Available
Both the online and print registration forms and questionnaires are now available to the general public to fill out and submit...
New RPG Research Facilities and contact information
We now have research facilities and new contact information available...
Hobby Games, Including RPG's Up, Video Games Down in 2010
According to reports from vendors, sales of Video Games were actually down 8% during the first 7 months of 2010, while Hobby games, including Role Playing Games, sales were all up across the board...
