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2004 - RPGR-A00001 An Overview of the History and Potential Therapeutic Value of Role-playing Gaming
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Hawke Robinson
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Sep 30, 2004
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RPG Research Essay,
Archive,
Discipline: TR/RT
Role-playing gaming (RPGing) has its roots as far back as ancient history with the development of war-gaming. War-gaming is the simulation of combat strategies and tactics represented in reduced scale with various rules, often with some sort of randomizing agent such as dice or cards to add an element of “realistic” unpredictability. As long as there has been organized warfare, there appears to have been some form of war-gaming in every culture throughout history. Chess and the Chinese game Go both are very much based on war-gaming, but considered lacking by some because of the lack of unpredictability offered by “true” war-gaming using some degree of randomization.
The RPG Research Project Document ID #RPGR-A001-A-20120927A-CC
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2012 RPGR-A00008 - Why People Like to Participate in Role-playing gaming activities.
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Hawke Robinson
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Oct 24, 2012
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last modified
Nov 14, 2022 06:12 AM
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Potential RPG Research Question,
RPG Research Essay
By W. A. Hawkes-Robinson - October 24th, 2012
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First Prototype for the PAVE Group of Tabletop RPG as a Modality for Therapeutic / Educational Intervention
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by
Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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last modified
Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
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RPG Research Project Updates,
RPG Research Module
This is an early prototype version. There are newer, more complete and updated, versions created since this article was posted years ago. This is useful for various populations and professionals from other disciplines wishing to teach participants how to find and use civic resources (police, fire department, doctor, hospital, theater, etc.). This program is based on work at Eastern Washington University with oversight by Professor Emily Messina and others. It has been repeated with similar success when used other groups in private practice through non-profit RPG Research and the for-profit RPG Therapeutics LLC since.
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First Prototype of Tabletop RPG as a Modality for Therapeutic / Educational Intervention
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Discipline: TR/RT,
pdd / asd / autism spectrum
This is my first prototype rough draft in the development of role-playing gaming as a modality for therapeutic / educational interventions. For a Recreation Therapy course in which I am currently enrolled at Eastern Washington University, our task last week was to "Develop a Tabletop Leisure Education Game" for a group of Autism Spectrum (and other) adults in a facility near the Seattle area (we are in Spokane, WA). Of course I selected (with the approval of my assigned partner in the project, Tabletop Role-Playing Gaming (RPG ) for this assignment, in this case a 1940s Gumshoe Detective-style mystery set in urban Chicago...
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Gender Bias in Gaming
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
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Potential RPG Research Question,
blog posting,
gender bias
I am currently in a course titled "The Psychology of Women" and we are covering various gender-bias topics. Recently on the CAR-PGa email list a link was sent related to gender-bias in gaming. Have you seen/experienced gender-bias related to gaming?
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Interdisciplinary RPG Therapeutics
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
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Discipline: RPGT (Role-Playing Game Therapy),
TBI - Traumatic Brain Injury,
Effects of RPG,
therapeutic recreation,
Brain Injury (Stroke, TBI, etc.),
therapeutic rpg,
therapeutic role-playing game,
rpg for therapy,
recreation therapy,
blog posting,
recreational therapy,
Role-Playing Gaming Therapeutic Recreation Handbook of Practice,
Discipline: TR/RT
While listening to some research on neurological music therapy program descriptions, I was struck by the overlap of the RPG Therapy programs as a very interdisciplinary delivery of services...
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List of Possible Research Projects for RPG Research
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
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RPG Research Goal,
research,
blog,
blog posting,
RPG Research Project Updates
The front page of rpgresearch.com provides an overview of potential topics to research. This page will attempt to define these in a bit more detail.
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Old Research Repository
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by
Hawke Robinson
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Aug 16, 2017
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last modified
Jul 10, 2022 05:27 PM
This is RPG Research's older research repository. We are currently moving more than 3,000 content items (1 multi-page essay equals 1 content item) from this old site to our new repository at www.rpgresearch.com/research . The new repository is better organized and formatted, but it takes months for our volunteers to move all this content from the old site to the new site, so we are keeping the old repository available until the move is complete. All new research is being added to the new repository, no new research is being added to this old repository as of 2018.
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Recent Discussion Partial Short List of RPG Benefits
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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blog posting
Here are excerpts from a recent email summarizing just a few of the many benefits of RPGs...
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RPG Handbook Wiki Original Source Document
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Hawke Robinson
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Nov 09, 2016
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Dec 08, 2022 02:57 PM
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Discipline: RPGT (Role-Playing Game Therapy),
Handbook of Practice,
Discipline: TR/RT
Here is the source document that is being converted to the wiki version of the RPG Handbook of Practice.
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