What is the purpose of role play games
RPGs are complex, collaborative social games which can help participants improve many skills, including team skills which can also be learned through sports participation, and quality of life measures. They can provide fun, alternative forms of physical activity (in the form of live-action RPGs) as well as practice in ways of thinking used in problem-solving, working together with others, and even in school. Playing RPGs can open your mind to new areas of interest, connect you with new friends, and deepen existing relationships.
Specifically, RPGs have been measurably proven to have many potential benefits for any participant, including in these areas:
- Artistic awareness & expression
- Behavior guidance & moderation
- Cameraderie
- Cognitive function development
- Communication skills
- Compassion sensitivity
- Cooperative problem solving
- Creativity (problem solving)
- Creative writing
- Cultural awareness & understanding
- Delayed gratification skills
- Drawing skills (graphic presentation)
- Effective assertiveness (not aggressive) behavior; speaking up for oneself
- Empathy development
- Ethical development
- Family connections
- Friend-making and deepened friendships
- Frustration tolerance
- History learning
- Impulse control
- Improvisation
- Individual problem-solving
- Intentional speech directed at others
- Languages learning & development (native & foreign)
- Leadership
- Learning complex concepts & systems
- Loneliness reduction
- Long-term planning
- Math fundamentals
- Mental health benefits
- Music
- Physical well-being
- Poetry
- Problem-solving
- Project management
- Quality of life measures
- Reaching consensus
- Reading comprehension level
- Reduction in aggressive behavior
- Reduction in crime
- Reduction in recidivism
- Resilience, perseverance, "grit"
- School participation levels
- Science
- Self-control / Impulse control
- Self-efficacy
- Self-esteem
- Self-identity
- Shyness
- Turn-taking
- Writing skills
- Vocabulary