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If you have a specialized area of knowledge or interest, or you are just excited about what the community is trying to do, please consider joining the 100% volunteer, unpaid, open RPG Research community website and sharing your distinctive perspective with others.
Your help is crucial to helping provide valuable research, community, or professional knowledge and experience to share with the international community in the hopes of helping "float all boats" and improve the world's understanding about role-playing games.
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We are a community of volunteers, professionals, researchers, therapists, educators, gamers, and others from all walks of life around the world. RPG Research is a 501(c)3 non-profit 100% volunteer, research & human services organization.
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Beginning with role-playing gaming in the 1970s, role-playing game research since 1983, educational RPG programs in 1985, and since 2004 providing an open, international repository of role-playing game (RPG) focused research, we aggregate research, conduct our own research, and foster the research of others into the effects of music and RPGs. We then synthesize & analyze that information to create inclusive and accessible community programs that measurably improve people’s lives. We cover all RPG formats: tabletop (TRPG), live-action (LARP), computer-based (CRPG), and solo adventure books/modules (SABM).
You can directly support more research and services, through our Patreon page.
RPG Research is a 100% unpaid volunteer-run 501(c)3 non-profit human services, charitable, research and community services organization. All donations go directly to our research and community program expenses. You can directly support our programs by donating today!
RPG Research is a volunteer-run non-profit 501(c)3 research & human services charitable organization providing a public roleplaying game research repository and studies the effects of all role-playing game formats, accessibility & inclusiveness considerations for role-playing gamers, and the potential for RPGs to help various populations achieve their educational, recreational, or therapeutic goals. Donations go directly to support research and community programs to help improve peoples lives. Donation information at rpgresearch.com/donate.
A few RPG Research volunteers at our 14th Annual Tolkien Moot (XIV) in front of the wheelchair accessible RPG Bus and RPG Trailer.
RPG Research running shield making and decorating, adaptive LARP, adaptive drum circles, and adaptive tabletop role-playing games for Muscular Dystrophy Association, 2017.
RPG Research adaptive drum circle programs, ice breakers and training for cooperative recreation in preparation for RPG/LARP programs.
RPG Research running adaptive drum circle facilitation training workshop as fundraiser for RPG Research, at Indie Air Radio studio.
RPG Research Volunteers & the Wheelchair Accessible RPG Trailer prototype (2017)
Setting up the wheelchair friendly RPG trailer prototype.
RPG Research founder running adaptive tabletop role-playing game with cerebral palsy participant at local game hobby store Merlyn's games & hobbies 2015.
RPG Research Deaf & Hard of Hearing (HoH) American Sign Language (ASL) Programs (2007)
2007 RPG Research founder running "Extreme Medieval Sports" "Joust-A-Lot" program in partnership with Eastern Washington University and Northeast Youth Center for at-risk and hungry youth.
2007 - RPG Research founder running program in partnership with EWU, Society for Creative Anachronism, and Northeast Youth Center, children try on armor courtesy of Lord Weizel.
2005 RPG Research founder running open community Middle-earth role-playing tabletop RPG convention in Spokane, Washington.
RPG Research's founder has been involved with role-playing games since the 1970s, studying the effects of RPGs since 1983, implementing in educational settings since 1985, and in therapeutic settings since 2004. We study all RPG formats: tabletop (TRPG), live-action (LARP), computer-based (CRPG), and solo adventure books/modules (SABM). We also research accessibility and inclusiveness considerations for role-playing gamers, and provide related advocacy. Finally, based on the research we provide community programs using music and role-playing games, helping a wide range of populations and special needs from ages 2 through 102+ years old.
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