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2011 - RPGR-A00005 Analysis of the Report “Alienation and the Game Dungeons and Dragons”
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Hawke Robinson
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Apr 03, 2016
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Discipline: Psychology,
Analysis,
RPG Research Essay
This is an analysis of the report "ALIENATION AND THE GAME DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS" by Lisa A. Derenard and Linda Mannik Kline. Psychological Report, 1990, 66, 1219-1222. O Psychological Reports 1990. The Analysis and commentary on the report is written by W.A. Hawkes-Robinson.
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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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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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Should Game Masters for Role-Playing Games be Paid? It Depends.
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Increasingly heated debate has been growing in recent years about whether role-playing game masters (RPG GMs) should be paid or not. It depends... NOTE: This article focuses on pure entertainment RPG Professionals, not RPG Professionals in educational or therapeutic settings. To be clear, this is a blog posting, as an opinion piece, not a formal essay or research paper. For more formal essays, see the research sections of the site. This informal article is from the first-person experiential perspective, that attempts to include persuasive argument components, as someone involved with RPGs since the 1970s running many sessions per week, and paid as a GM (when desired) since the 1980s.
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Anecdotal Experiences of Stigma as a tabletop role-playing Gamer
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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This is a copy of the posting I made on the rpg.net forum back around June 2012, regarding role-playing gamer stigma. It is a very long post. What have your experiences been with role-playing gaming, gamers, and any social stigma?
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Notes from experiments on RPG optimization - Maximizing enjoyment, benefit, immersion, flow, safety, etc.
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Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Here is a summary of many observations I have made over the decades through various experiments in trying to optimize the RPG experience. This is from a huge pile of hundreds of documents I have written, spanning over 15+ years of research (and nearly 40 years of RPG experience). It will likely take me a year or more to finish integrating all that information into this document. All of the placeholder topics I currently have documents to fill in the blanks, but I time is the challenge in doing so. Bit by bit I am uploading all that content to here.
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2015 - Empathic Features and Absorption in Fantasy Role-Playing
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May 29, 2016
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Computer gaming/gamers tabletop RPG Dungeons & Dragons - D&D,
Discipline: Psychology,
Discipline: Hypnosis,
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Aspect: Empathy,
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Rivers A1, Wickramasekera IE 2nd2, Pekala RJ3, Rivers JA4. Am J Clin Hypn. 2016 Jan;58(3):286-94. doi: 10.1080/00029157.2015.1103696.
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Christian Gamers Guild FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions by Christians about Role-playing Games
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Hawke Robinson
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May 10, 2013
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Diagnosis: Depression,
Christians & RPG,
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Cached from their website. Not affiliated with RPG Research in any way..."If you are Christian and concerned about Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), or other role-playing games, here is a very useful FAQ from the Christian Gamers Guild that will help address all your concerns. "
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