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Welcome to the Role-Playing Game Knowledgebase Archives by RPG Research

The RPG Research repositories includes more than 10,000 content items on the effects and uses of all role-playing game formats:

  • Tabletop (TRPG)
  • Live-action (LRPG and larp)
  • Electronic (ERPG)
  • Hybrid (HRPG)

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About RPG Research

RPG Research is a 100% unpaid volunteer-run 501(c)3 non-profit charitable human services organization providing research and community programs globally and beyond.

RPG Research provides the world's largest free and open archives on the effects and uses of all role-playing game formats, with the roots of our founding in the 1970s!

We provide role-playing game community programs for all ages and abilities around the world.

We provide free training related to the Certified Role-Playing Game Professional workshops and training programs to our volunteers (this training costs more than $20,000 USD at other organizations).RPG Research's founder, Hawke Robinson, is known as "The Grandfather of Therapeutic Gaming" because he has been studying the effects and uses of role-playing games longer than anyone else (since the 1970s). He is also the creator of:

  • The Wheelchair Accessible RPG Mobile Fleet of Buses, Trailers, etc.
  • RPG Therapeutics LLC
  • The Role-Playing Game Professional training programs, workshops, diplomas, and certifications.
  • ...

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RPG Research's Knowledgebase Archives on Role-Playing Game Research

RPG Research Knowledgebase Research Repositories by RPG Research is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Based on a work at https://www.rpgresearch.com/kb.

Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://www.rpgresearch.com/legal.

Attribution and Citation Information: https://www.rpgresearch.com/attribution

This page helps to provide role-playing games research (RPG research) in the language appropriate to various backgrounds to help you find the role-playing game research information you are looking for.

If you are a layperson such as a role-playing gamer, a parent/guardian of a gamer,, an educator, or healthcare professional, you may want to try the relevant pages that explain this site and projects more in your terminology.

NOTE: Any links to the organization RPG Research's research archives might not be currently accessible to the public due to recent insurance requirements.

Historically, for decades, our research archives have been 100% free and open to the public (to the extent permitted by copyright and privacy laws). We are doing all we can to get the added insurance necessary to allow us to re-open our research archives to the public. This requires substantial donations because the insurance companies consider this a high risk function.

Our research repository contains more than 10,000 content items on the effects of role-playing games, including thousands of items not available anywhere else in the world (such as the Paul Cardwell collection donated to RPG Research by the Paul Cardwell Estate, his widow Gladys Cardwell).

YOUR DONATION MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN OUR ABILITY TO AFFORD THE ANNUAL INSURANCE REQUIRED TO ENABLE US TO RE-OPEN THE WORLD'S LARGEST FREE AND OPEN RESEARCH REPOSITORY ON THE EFFECTS OF ROLE-PLAYING GAMES TO THE PUBLIC.  

Role-Playing Game Research Sorted by Professional Discipline or Knowledge Domain

We are still working on tagging the vast database of content, so these lists are far from complete, but we're working on it as quickly as possible. Please consider joining as a volunteer to help speed up this process. Many disciplines included, based on article tags.

Role-Playing Game Research Archives Sorted by Population or Diagnosis

 Populations include, but are not limited to:

Role-Playing Game Research Studies Sorted by Research Study Type

  • Correlative, correlational research
  • Meta-analysis research
  • Case studies
  • Causal research
  • Controlled research
  • Experimental research
  • Non-experimental research
  • Quasi-experimental research
  • Clinical, evidence-in-practice
  • Peer-reviewed
  • Longitudinal
  • Cross-sectional, Synchronous research
  • Cohort
  • Non-peer-reviewed
  • Theoretical research
  • Applied research
  • Exploratory research
  • Qualitative
  • Quantitative
  • Descriptive research
  • Explanatory research
  • Deductive investigation
  • Inductive research
  • Hypothetical-Deductive research
  • Primary research
  • Secondary research
  • Documentary (cabinet)
  • Field research
  • Laboratory research
  • Literature review
  • Mixed-method: Documentary, field, and/or laborator

Queue of RPG Research Questions

Here is a list of research questions The RPG Research Project would like to be able to answer: http://www.rpgresearch.com/about/list-of-research-questions/

Role-Playing Game Research Sorted by Effects / Potential Benefits/Deficits / Targeted Goals / Topics

Related to the above list of research questions, here is relevant information gathered so far, if you are looking for information targeting specific benefits/goals, many areas of benefit are often realized through the intentional utilization of music and role-playing games, some of the most common benefits include:

Social

Creative

Intellectual, Cognitive, Neuroscience

Optimizing the RPG Experience

  • Immersion
  • Flow State
  • Maximizing Flow State
  • Game Master Variables
  • Adventure / Campaign Variables
  • Player Variables
  • Environment Variables
  • Game Variables (system, printing, components, etc.)
  • Group variables
  • Session variables
  • Media variables
  • Play style
  • Duration
  • Frequency
  • Group size

APIE

  • Assessment
  • Baseline
  • Documentation
  • Evaluation
  • Intake
  • Planning / Design
  • Reassessment
  • Tools

Assessment Tools

  • Beck Depression Inventory
  • Brief Cognitive Rating Scale (BCRS)
  • Children's Depression Inventory
  • Cognitive Age / Functioning Assessments for Best Game System Complexity Match or Adaptations
  • Cooperation and Trust Scale (CAT)
  • Demographics Information
  • Emotional age / functioning assessment to gauge "safety" of certain story types / tropes/ circumstances
  • Flow state scales
  • FOX - Activity Therapy Skills Baseline
  • Functional Independence Measure (FIM)
  • Gaming Experience Assessment
  • Game System Complexity Assessment
  • Genre Interest Assessment
  • Global Assessment of Functioning scale (GAF)
  • Immersion scales
  • Leisure Attitude Measurement (LAM)
  • Leisure Diagnostic Battery
  • Leisure Interest Measure (LIM)
  • Leisure/Recreation Interest Assessment Tools
  • Leisure Satisfaction Measure (LSM)
  • Play Style Assessment
  • Rancho Los Amigos Scale
  • Range of Motion (ROM)
  • Perceived Locus of Control 
  • Sedation Scale
  • Visual Disability Rating Levels Scale
  • Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale

Book full of example Recreation & Leisure Tools: Assessment Tools for Recreational Therapy and Related Fields, 4th Edition by joan burlingame and Thomas M. Blaschko.

RPG Specific Topics

  • Bleed
  • Game Systems
  • Randomization, dice, probability curves
  • Player Style
  • Game Master GM / Dungeon Master DM Style
  • Old school RPGs
  • Evil player characters in RPGs
  • Romance or sex in RPGs
  • Sandbox
  • Railroad
  • Social contract
  • Gaming Code of conduct
  • RPG accessories
  • Electronic technologies with tabletop RPGs
  • Character archetypes
  • Player archetypes
  • Game master archetypes
  • Game facilities inspection and checklists
  • Game preparation checklists

By General Topics

Role-Playing Game Research Sorted Chronologically by Date

Research Archives Sorted by Date