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Warhammer FRP - Ideal For Immature Gamers?
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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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blog,
RPG Review,
blog posting,
RPG Research Project Updates
I have delved a little further into the Warhammer Fantasy Role Play rules, and from what I am seeing, I have a working theory as to where WH FRP may have it's usefulness for a specific subtype of role playing gamer, the immature player.
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First Prototype 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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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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TRPG
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Hawke Robinson
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May 10, 2022 11:56 PM
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filed under:
Glossary
Tabletop Role-Playing Game
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An Experienced Gamer Looking In as Though An Outsider to the Gaming Community
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by
Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
As has been the case for me in a number of fields, even though I have been involved with RPGs since 1979, so consider myself an "insider" to the RPG experience compared to people that do not game, and yet as someone increasingly professionally involved with RPGs, the more I meet the "mainstream gaming community" the more I realize I feel more like an outsider looking into the the gaming community...
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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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Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
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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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MDA Camp 2017 - "Battle Royale: The Summoning"
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by
Hawke Robinson
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published
Jun 20, 2015
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Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
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Diagnosis: Muscular Dystrophy (MD),
Drum, drums, drumming, drum circle, drum circle facilitation,
RPG Trailer,
News,
blog posting,
RPG Research Project Updates
"The Summoning". Using drums, and forming a drum circle, with drum circle facilitation techniques. At the July 18th, 2017, Muscular Dystrophy Association Summer Camp, at Twinlow Retreat near Rathdrum Idaho. We introduced participants to drumming, shield decorating, boffer LARP, and parallel tabletop RPG.
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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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Dec 08, 2022 10:53 AM
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Pending Review,
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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How “Dungeons & Dragons” saved my autistic son
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by
Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
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pdd / asd / autism spectrum,
anecdote
" D&D has always appealed to introverts with rich inner lives. For my boy, it was a lifeline to the outside world. Delani Bartlette, The Good Men Project"
Article from Salon.com archived here in case it disappears...
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Story #4: incorporating Real Drum Circles as part of LARP/RPG Storyline - RPG Story of the Template
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by
Hawke Robinson
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Jun 20, 2015
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Feb 05, 2023 12:22 PM
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filed under:
Anecdotal Story of the Day,
Potential RPG Research Question,
anecdote,
blog posting,
Muscular Dystrophy / MD / MDA
Story #__: ____________________. A series of anecdotal postings sharing observations, comments, and other relevant experiences, about the effects of role-playing gaming...
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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
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.