We're back from the long RPG Tour and American Therapeutic Recreation Association's national annual conference in Reno, Nevada. We were on the road from September 11th through 20th, and are now catching up. We provided ATRA CEUs accredited workshops on role-playing games.
Warning and fraud alert about the Larp group calling themselves "Dragon's Haven".
Notes for the shor, in case needed.
As has been discussed in many of our weekly broadcasts, research meetings, talk shows, and board meetings, we haven't been happy with D&D 5e's introductory approach for people that have never role-played before. After years of experimentation, months of debate, and weeks of training, we're officially beginning the transition to use BECMI's Basic D&D as introduction to RPG instead of D&D 5e for ages 10+. For ages 4/5+ we're happily still using No Thank You Evil (NTYE).
From 1983 through 2015 it was just Hawke working with other organizations. Then just about 2 years ago we were at just volunteer number 9, now we have hit 70! And it is looking very likely we may hit or exceed 100 before the end of the year! And spanning multiple continents!
RPG Research's founder & president, Hawke Robinson, is going to be unavailable for several weeks, except for emergencies, from June 25th through July 20th, 2019. Please note the other contact options listed during his absence.
First in a series by Erik Mitchell on Role-Playing Games and the concept of "Bleed".
Been 15+ years, since founding the RPG Research Project in 2004, leading up to the national conference, and now it is official!
These are brief excerpts from some of my papers on the neuroscience of learning and relevance to role-playing games. Complete versions are available to Patreon supporters, research staff and RPG.Education students.
Starting with each of the different Dungeons & Dragons versions back to Original D&D.
Please come help 501(3) non-profit charity, RPG Research, May 31st, 2019, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.
As was warned a few weeks ago, due to lack of any security or privacy with Discord's platfor, we are moving all of our private chat to the Role-Playing Gamers Social Network (RPGSN.net). The public & patreon-special channels will remain on Discord for now.
RPG Research was nominated as a "Difference Maker" for upcoming event taking place April 19th in Spokane, Washington.
Sunday, March 24th, we began the process of moving all but one of our programs from Twitch.tv/rpgresearch back to Youtube.com/rpgresearch.
We recently sent 3 presentation proposals for the upcoming 2019 American Therapeutic Recreation Association's annual conference.
Variations of this happen so often that I generally don't bother posting about it anymore. Typically anywhere from once per month to once per week, I encounter something in the ballpark of these negative attitudes about role-playing gamers/gaming from the inculcated myths. But this past Friday was exceptional, with 3 separate families forbidding their children!
A lot of larps are either more combat oriented or more freeform oriented. We're looking for something that is as close to a heroic, "good guys only", tabletop role-playing game, but includes moving around physically, but does not allow any physical contact, and isn't overly focused on combat. Anyone know of something actually published, with adventures, that fits these criteria? This is for atrisk and incarcerated populations.
Until recently, it seemed pretty standard to use TRPG, but in the last few years, for some strange reason an increasing number of people are starting to use TTRPG with 2 Ts. Why?
A brief summary of role-play as a construct and its researched benefits.
Once again someone has become (or apparently was for some time) persona non grata because of some terrible words or deeds. I'd never had any awareness of this person, but have seen over the past week a LOT of threads discussing. This lead me to wondering, is there anywhere someone outside of these insular community in-groups could find information about the controversial figures in various fandoms?
RPGs and nerd culture in Saudi Arabia
Apologies for delays in responses, working feverishly on protocol documents for journal submission.
In our consideration of games research and community game offerings, we are trying to find the "right" Old West TRPG, that does not have magic or science fiction or other blended genres. Here is where we will post updates on our search.
See the latest CAR-PGa NEWSLETTER, Vol. 28, No. 2, February 2019
Polling opens February 14th to 24th. Please vote for us as your favorite charity. RPG Research is a 501(c)3 research and human services charitable organization, 100% volunteer run, providing community programs using collaborative music and games to help various populations including: ADHD, anxiety, ASD, at-risk populations, brain injuries, CP, Deaf/HoH, depression, mental health, muscular dystrophy, substance dependency transition, and many others.
We are all about open, peer-shared, peer-learning, collaborative, community engaged sharing of information and experiences, and our primary website is open to all. We have also setup an internal network to solve some internal organizational challenges, called the RPGSN.net, and wanted to let folks know why.
This is for all staff volunteers, but posting the link publicly just in case any staff didn't catch the email, Discord, or RPGSN posting.
We are trying to solidify the 5th slot in our Tier 1 game offerings and GM 1 training programs, and we've decided on a super hero RPG of some kind. However, nailing down which one will take a lot of evaluations. Here is where we are at so far. Any others you recommend?
The past is still very present for many. We regularly meet people in the gaming community who do not understand why we "waste" time talking about all the misconceptions of the past regarding role-playing games and gamers. This is because outside of the fandom bubble, a very large percentage of people unfortunately still believe the negative myths and stereotypes. If we don't address those issues up-front and head-on, it is literally the difference between our programs being accepted or denied.
Diversity of perspectives is the key to making the international RPG Research volunteer community and open research repository website the most helpful to everyone.
