Do you know ASL? Are you Deaf, Hard of Hearing, or Hearing with ASL? Do you like fun games? There is a group putting together an online (via video) gaming group, and they would love to hear from you!
Have you ever run or played in an "evil campaign"? How long did your group last? How long did the campaign last? What were your experiences compared to non-evil campaigns? I have run a handful of evil campaigns over the decades, here are a few examples of my observations.
Timothe Loya served six years as a U.S. Marine, also serving in Iraq, and has proposed using tabletop role-playing games to treat returning veterans struggling with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System.
These are some simple tips that if you are a game designer, you really might want to take into account for your next role-playing game design.
A tutorial for archivists on the process of moving content items from the old www2 site to the new w3 site
Common goal is to help people overcome the consequences of extreme test anxiety. Here is a quick overview of the neuroscience of test anxiety, and how role-playing games may help to address this.
Amalgamation of information, videos, audio, etc., from being at PAX Unplugged 2018
A video summary about the Wheelchair Friendly RPG Trailer ...
In a Facebook group posting, someone stated: "I question why America sees LARPing as something to be mocked". Here is a response...
The arguments about "Escapism" often recur, and I recently saw someone posting about it again. This topic is addressed in the presentations at Washington State and Pacific Northwest American Therapeutic Recreation Association Conferences, so here is a snippet on the topic...
In 2002, it all began with the original "The Gamers" movie. Now 15 years later, it is time to finish the story, and you can make it happen!
A fun little trailer the show creator put together for the weekly Internet show in which I have a supporting role as one of the adventurers.
Just a quick status update about today's activities related to the RPG Research Project's recent activities...
Here is a summary of many observations I have made through various experiments in trying to optimize the RPG experience. These are based both on observations (most of which include thousands of hours of recorded RPG sessions), verbal feedback, and formal assessment forms from participants. Scores of variables were taken into consideration and repeatedly tweaked to try to find some level of causal changes, but at this stage are probably only at best correlative, in the enjoyment levels of participants. There are plenty of potential confounds here, and so every statement should have that taken into consideration that these should be further researched with more rigorous techniques. However, implementation of these observations does seem to have lead to consistently higher assessment & observation scores. I hope others find this useful for trying to optimize your own RPG setting. This was a non-therapeutic and non-educational setting, it was only for standard leisure activity of tabletop role-playing games.
"GameHearts was founded to promote sobriety by providing alternative gaming activities. "
UPDATE: UNFORTUNATELY DUE TO A CLERICAL OR OTHER ERROR, THEY ARE NOT INCLUDING MY PRESENTATION IN THE SCHEDULE, SO IT TURNS OUT I WILL _NOT_ BE SPEAKING AT THIS YEAR'S WSTRA. - - - May 6th is the 17th annual conference for the Washington State Therapeutic Recreation Association. I will be presenting on Using Role-Playing Games to Achieve Therapeutic & Educational Goals: The First Steps, and showing the 50-100+ professionals the Wheelchair Friendly RPG Trailer.
RPG Therapeutics LLC, RPG Research, now on the third tour with the Wheelchair Friendly RPG Trailer! See the map for tour route. Drop on by and say hi!
As summarized in Babylon 5, and applicable to RPG character development, and player goals...
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There have been an increasing number of articles (and people?) protesting against the Dungeons & Dragons books and settings titled "Oriental Adventures". What are some of the issues expressed? What are the published past and currently in-print alternatives (are there any)?
Originally presented as a slide show presentation for Eastern Washington University class "Recreation Therapy for People with Disabilities". This video is a presentation on the hypothetical use of role-playing games to help a patient with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) progress through various recovery stages. This includes Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA), Computer-based RPG, Tabletop, and Live-action role-play (LARP).
I have found Avedon's Interaction analysis very useful in explaining and developing role-playing games for various intervention goals. I created a "cheat sheet" that summarizes many pages of the concepts into one page, with specific notes for all forms of RPG.
With the recent kickstarter for the documentary "Let's Play: D&D Behind Bars" by producer Elisabeth de Kleer launching, our efforts related to researching the effects of RPGs in Prison have once again come to light. RPG Research's founder, W.A. Hawkes-Robinson (aka Hawke Robinson), called by professional peers the "grandfather of therapeutic gaming", is directly involved with this documentary as a behind-the-scenes consultant and on-camera "Advisor" for the film. Mr. Robinson's personal involvement with this topic spans decades...
This was too long to post in full on some sites such as GeekAndSundry.com, so I have the full-length version here to be linked to.This was too long to post in full on some sites such as GeekAndSundry.com, so I have the full-length version here to be linked to.
As a Game Master I Dislike When My Player(s) do this, so when I play a game in someone else's game, I never _____________.
As per a discussion on Facebook, regarding the challenges of keeping hup with what is "acceptable" terminology for different populations groups, and the tension between what is acceptable in professional circles, versus layperson and fandom circles.
Yet another anecdotal example of RPG related stigma: I was getting a haircut yesterday at a chain in Spokane, Washington. The female stylist was about to speak, paused and then looked over at her co-worker, saying hesitantly "I love playing role-playing games like D&D"...
While not ready to release a comprehensive report, there are some numbers that are pretty straight forward and should be of interest to many. This is a self-report questionnaire on experiences and perceptions of gender bias in the gaming community and industry.
So far I have completed 3 different program plans specifically designed for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) toddlers, youth, & adults, and are likely applicable to the broader range of Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD).
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