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Maine State Senator Playing Orc on World of Warcraft Elected Despite Opponents Attacks On Her Gaming Hobby
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Hawke Robinson
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Nov 08, 2012
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Aug 14, 2015 03:43 PM
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MMORPG - Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game,
research,
blog,
Anti-rpg,
Computer gaming/gamers tabletop RPG Dungeons & Dragons - D&D,
stereotype propagation,
blog posting
Colleen Lachowicz, Democrat for Maine state senate, won despite attacks claiming concern over her "fitness for office" due to her online "disturbing alter ego". These attacks from her opposition were targeting her online gaming in World of Warcraft...
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Potential Effects of RPG
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by
Hawke Robinson
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published
Mar 13, 2016
The areas and degree of effects likely vary between the different RPG formats of tabletop, live-action, solo/CYOA, or computer-based.
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POTENTIAL AREAS OF EFFECT
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by
Hawke Robinson
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published
Mar 24, 2016
The effects of RPGs upon participants are influenced by many variables, including the RPG format: Tabletop, Live-action (LARP), Choose Your Own Adventure / Interactive Solo, and computer-based
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Old Research Repository
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by
Hawke Robinson
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published
Aug 16, 2017
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last modified
Mar 21, 2019 02:48 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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Initial Review of The Gamers: The Shadow Menace
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Hawke Robinson
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Nov 16, 2017
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last modified
Aug 02, 2020 08:01 AM
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blog posting
This is an initial review, with just my first impressions upon the first viewing of the brand new offering in the original The Gamers Series: The Shadow Menace. I attempt to avoid any overt spoilers by keeping this review more abstract rather than specific.
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TRPG
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Hawke Robinson
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Aug 05, 2018 11:34 AM
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Glossary
Tabletop Role-Playing Game
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Wiki, Glossary, & Bibliography
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Glossary
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Dungeons & Dragons, Satan, and Psychology | Psychology Today
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by
Hawke Robinson
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Mar 21, 2019
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filed under:
Occult, Satanists, etc.
Psychology Today Article - Dungeons & Dragons, Satan, and Psychology
Why are society and the mental health industry so quick to believe moral panics?
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1. Primary List of Documents for Research on RPGs (Others' Research)
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Full Text Documents Waiting for permission to publish publicly
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2004 - RPGR-A00001 An Overview of the History and Potential Therapeutic Value of Role-playing Gaming
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by
Hawke Robinson
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Sep 30, 2004
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last modified
Jun 07, 2020 12:20 PM
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filed under:
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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About The RPG Research Project Community Website (All on one page).
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admin
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Aug 14, 2017 09:25 PM
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RPG Research Goal,
RPG Research Project Updates
This community-focused website began with efforts, starting initially around 1985, and advancing since 2004, to identify the effects of role-playing games upon participants. Furthermore research efforts consider the potential uses of RPGs as intervention modalities to achieve educational and therapeutic goals for diverse populations. RPG Research is loose consortium of contributors and completely volunteer-run.
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GeekCulture An Annotated Interdisciplinary Bibliography
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by
Hawke Robinson
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published
Jun 13, 2018
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Additional Reference Material
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To Be Sorted