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Last modified by Hawke Robinson on 2023/06/20 12:56

This page contains a curated list of specific links to specific content based on specific requests, suggestions, or most commonly searched for content that researchers, academics, and professionals have found the most useful.

This is a significantly shorter list than the other curated pages, our site full text search, or our overall 10,000+ content items on the effects and uses of all role-playing game formats.

When searching for specific content in our knowledgebase.

First try the latest (4.x) version of the public access RPG Research Knowledgebase. https://rpgresearch.com/kb

If you do not find what you are looking for, then this page may help.

  1. Patreon Postings (2012+) https://www.patreon.com/posts/published

Older RPG Research Knowledgebase Versions

  1. 3.x (2020-2022) - https://old12-1011.rpgresearch.com/research
  2. 2.x (2017-2020) RPG Research Knowledgebase Archives (2017-2020). https://w3.rpgresearch.com/research (volunteer staff access only)
  3. 1.x (1979-2017) RPG Research Knowledgebase Archives. https://www2.rpgresearch.com/landing-research-background (volunteer staff access only)

Videos

  1. RPG Research's Youtube Channel (2011+) Videos https://youtube.com/rpgresearch (more than 1,000 videos)
  2. RPG Research's Twitch.tv Channel (2015+) Videos https://twitch.tv/rpgresearch.

Panels

Audio, video, and text panels

  1. 4.x: (2022+) https://rpgresearch.com/panels
  2. 3.x: (2020-2022)
  3. 2.x: (2017-2020)https://w3.rpgresearch.com/@@search?SearchableText=panel
  4. 1.x (1979-2017) Oldest https://www2.rpgresearch.com/@@search?SearchableText=panel (2004-2017)

Blog Postings

  1. 4.x (2022+) https://rpgresearch.com/blog
  2. 3.x (2020-2022) https://old12-0122.rpgresearch.com/blog
  3. 2.x (2017-2020) https://w3.rpgresearch.com/blog
  4. 1.x (1979-2017) https://www2.rpgresearch.com/blog

If you can't find what you need, let our volunteers know, so we can help you personally . https://www.rpgresearch.com/contactus

Longer explanation The archives are a bit of a mess right now from such rapid growth and because we are moving more than 10,000 content items from our several different repository servers, to consolidate into our newest 4.x RPG Research's Knowledge system by the end of 2022. This includes many thousands more donated content items to be cataloged, scanned, indexed, and entered into the museum catalog. These repositories are scattered across more than 4 different server locations, and have to be migrated manually thanks to the help of our Archivists volunteer team.

You can also join the conversations on our Role-Playing Game Social Network (RPGSN) at www.rpgsn.net Matrix server.

Request For Comments (RFC)

If you are experienced with the research or cataloging process, and you would be interested in participating in the discussion please let us know and we will put you on the discussion list. It will be a narrow and very specific discussion thread, focusing exclusively on that topic so as not to overload RFC participants with many other tangential topics, since all involved already have very full schedules. We have had over 30 professors from around the world, as well as librarians, and museum archivists on the team so far, and want to have as diverse a knowledge pool as possible to determine the best approach.

Then when worked out, moved to a clean full production server. This isn't all or nothing, we can add these fields and structure after the fact, and refine as needed, once the content is in the latest version of our knowledgebase.

Curated List

Peer Reviewed

These are from sources that have been through peer reviews at private and public journals or other sources.

  1. Role-Playing Game Research - "Play for Growth: A Systematic Literature Review of Games and Socioemotional Skills"
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Internally Peer or Supervisor Reviewed

These are from sources that have been through peer reviews, professorial or supervisor review and oversight, internal organizational peer reviews, or other sources of review.

  1. Improving Access to Tabletop Role-Playing Games by Overcoming High Barriers to Introductory Play by W.A. Hawkes-Robinson

Peer Review Status Not Yet Checked (Pending)

  1.  Role-Playing Games and the Christian Right: Community Formation in Response to a Moral Panic - https://w3.rpgresearch.com/research/archives/public/public-blogs-test/others-research/role-playing-games-and-the-christian-right-community-formation-in-response-to-a-moral-panic
  2. 2014 - Experiences of Hobby Game Players: Motivations Behind Playing Digital and Non Digital Games | GrogHeads https://w3.rpgresearch.com/research/archives/public/public-blogs-test/others-research/2014-experiences-of-hobby-game-players-motivations-behind-playing-digital-and-non-digital-games-grogheads
  3. As A GM I Dislike When My Player(s) Do This, So... https://w3.rpgresearch.com/blog/as-a-gm-i-dislike-when-my-player-s-do-this-so
  4. 1999 - Through The Looking Glass: An Exploration of the Interplay between Player and Character Selves in Role-Playing Games https://w3.rpgresearch.com/research/archives/public/public-blogs-test/others-research/1999-through-the-looking-glass-an-exploration-of-the-interplay-between-player-and-character-selves-in-role-playing-games
  5. 2004- What happened to Dungeons and Dragons? - by Darren Waters - https://w3.rpgresearch.com/research/archives/public/public-blogs-test/others-research/2004-what-happened-to-dungeons-and-dragons-by-darren-waters
  6. Fun and Function, How RPG Can Heal - https://w3.rpgresearch.com/research/archives/public/public-blogs-test/fun-and-function-how-rpg-can-heal
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Not Peer Reviewed

This section contains the content that has not been through any form of peer review, but still many researchers, academics, and professionals find highly valuable.

In many cases consider these Request For Comments (RFC) style "white papers" and similar. Proposing concepts and observations, and looking for further research to disprove, prove, or modify the concepts further.

  1. Amalgamation of News Coverage, Panels, Q&A, Hangouts, Broadcasts, Interviews, & Presentations on RPG Research Studies on the Effects of RPG, and RPG used for Professionals, Therapy, and Education
  2. The Optimal Role-Playing Game
  3. Optimizing the Role-Playing Game Experience for Maximal Immersion and Achieving Maximal Flow State Opportunities for Individuals and Groups
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The RPG Research Collection

  1. D20 Arabia - D&D in Saudi Arabia. RPGs and nerd culture in Saudi Arabia. by Omar. https://w3.rpgresearch.com/blog/d20-arabia-dnd-in-saudi-arabia 
  2. Role-playing gaming & Bleed Part 1 by Erik Mitchell of RPG Research. by Erik Mitchell. https://w3.rpgresearch.com/blog/bleed-part-1-by-erik-mitchell
  3. Bleed Part 2 by Erik Mitchell of RPG Research. by Erik Mitchell. https://w3.rpgresearch.com/Members/erik/blogs/bleed-part-2-by-erk-mitchell
  4. List of Anecdotes of RPG Success Stories https://www.rpgresearch.com/anecdotes 
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The W.A. Hawkes-Robinson Collection

This section is a curated list of the works by RPG Research's Founder and Primary Investigator, W.A. Hawkes-Robinson

This page provides a short list of the basic fundamentals related to Hawkes-Robinson role-playing game theories and models from a multidisciplinary approach drawing from a wide range of theories, research, and evidence-in-practice from many fields and knowledge domains.

Many of these will be available in book format around Summer/Fall 2023 in the Collected Works of W.A. Hawkes-Robinson and the Collected Works of RPG Research books.

  1. Accessibility Barriers to Role-Playing Games
  2. Activity Analysis Forms (AAF)
  3. Acitivity Analysis - Role-Playing Games (AAF-RPG)
  4. ADHD and Role-Playing Games
  5. American Sign Language Role-Playing Gaming
  6. Anecdotal Experiences of Stigma as a tabletop role-playing Gamer
  7. Aphantasia and RPG
  8. APIEDR
  9. Archetypes
  10. ARPG FOrmat - Audio RPGs
  11. At-risk and high-risk populations and RPGs
  12. Autism spectrum and RPG
  13. Avedon Interaction Patterns and Role-Playing Games (Avedon-RPG)
  14. Barriers to Entry and RPGs
  15. Battle Over Role-Playing Gaming, The
  16. BCI-RPG
  17. BECMI D&D Analysis
  18. Benefits of Role-Playing Games List of Potential Role-Playing Game Benefits https://rpgresearch.com/list-of-role-playing-game-benefits
  19. BEARC RPG Game Tiers and considerations for risk populations assessment tools and ratings of RPGs
  20. BFRPG Review
  21. Bleed Theory and RPG
  22. Blind / VI and RPG
  23. Brain injuries (BI, TBI, stroke, etc.) and RPG
  24. Brief Considerations of RPGs with Risk Populations
  25. Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Starter Set Review
  26. Character-driven
  27. Code of Conduct
  28. Cognitive Neuropsychology of Learning Complex Systems and Role-Playing Games: https://rpgresearch.com/rpg-brain-health
  29. Conflict and Barriers to Interpersonal Effectiveness and Role-Playing Gamers - Addressing Inculcated Stereotyping and Prejudice About Role-Playing Gamers
  30. Deaf / HoH and RPG
  31. Defamation of Games and Gamers - Psychology of Deception
  32. Designers of Role-Playing Games, Please The This Into Consideration
  33. Developmental States, Theory of the Mind, Meta-Cognition, and RPGs
  34. DKIW+ - Data, Knowledge, Information, Wisdom
  35. Don't Dumb Down Games, Instead Raise People Up
  36. Don't Split the Party https://w3.rpgresearch.com/research/archives/public/research-questions/rpgs-primer-dont-split-the-party
  37. Dyslexia and RPG
  38. Education psychology and RPG
  39. Empathy, Role-Playing Gaming, and Role-Playing Gamers
  40. Encumbrance Analysis of Real-world Firefighter, Soldier, and Knight and RPG Correlations
  41. ERPG Format - Electronic RPGs
  42. Explaining Role-playing Gaming to Senior Adults 80+ Years Old
  43. Flow State, Immersion, and RPG
  44. Flow State, Immersion, and RPG - Observed Immersion Scale (OIS)
  45. Four Major RPG Formats, The
  46. Gender bias resarch surveys in the gaming industry and community
  47. GIAT - Genre Interest Assessment Tool
  48. GM styles
  49. GPAT - Gaming Preferences Assessment Tool
  50. Hawkes-Robinson RPG Theory and Models - Pros and Cons of Role-Playing Game Formats/li>
  51. Hawkes-Robinson RPG Theory and Models - The RPG Formats Diagram
  52. HRPG Format - Hybrid RPGs
  53. Incarcerated youth and adult populations and RPG
  54. Intelligence models and RPG
  55. Improving Lives through RPGs
  56. Improving Access to Tabletop Role-Playing Games by Overcoming High Barriers to Introductory Play https://w3.rpgresearch.com/blog/breaking-down-the-rpg-barriers-to-entry-with-bfrpg
  57. Improving Access to Tabletop Role-Playing Games by Addressing the Industry-wide High Barriers to Introductory Play
  58. Improving Functioning and Quality of Life Through RPG Therapy : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-role-playing-games-help-neurodiverse-autism-hawke-robinson
  59. LRPG Format - Live-action RPGs and Larp
  60. Massed Learning Model and RPGs, The
  61. Mentor Model and RPGs, The
  62. Neurodiversity of Gamers in the Role-Playing Game Community
  63. Neuroscience of Learning and RPGs
  64. Observations on the Current State of RPG Professionalism: An Immature but Growing Profession
  65. Optimized Introductory Role-Playing Game Design Recommendations
  66. Optimizing Role-Playing Game Experiences Controlling Variables Impacting Immersion, Flow State, and Bleed
  67. Overview History and Potential Therapeutic Value of RPGs
  68. Prisons and Role-Playing Games: https://rpgresearch.com/blog/blog-news-category/rpg-in-prisons
  69. PAS - Player Archetype Specialists
  70. Personalities and Alienation of of Role-Playing Game Players
  71. Play Styles, Stereotypes, Archetypes, and Role-Playing Games: https://rpgresearch.com/how-to-use-knowledge-of-role-playing-game-play-styles-to-optimize-the-rpg-experience-(update)
  72. Player styles player preference theories
  73. Player styles and "Balkanization"
  74. Potential Benefits and Deficits of Role-Playing Games
  75. Professional Issues and role-playing games
  76. Psychology Therapeutic Domains and Role-Playing Gaming
  77. Operation Z-Day
  78. Removing Star Wars from our Tier 1 Game Offering: https://w3.rpgresearch.com/blog/removing-star-wars-from-our-tier-1-games-offerings
  79. Review of The Big Bang Theory Representation of Role-Playing Gaming and Gamers
  80. Review of Community TV Series Representation of Role-Playing Gaming and Gamers
  81. Review of Gamerz Movie Representation of Role-Playing Gaming and Gamers
  82. Review of The Gamers Movies Representation of Role-Playing Gaming and Gamers
  83. Review of The Gamerz Movie Representation of Role-Playing Gaming and Gamers
  84. RPG Review of Twilight 2000 4th Edition
  85. RPG Review of Dune RPG
  86. RPG Review of No Thank You Evil RPG
  87. RPG Review of Star Trek Adventures RPG
  88. RPG Review of Star Wars FFG RPG
  89. RPG Review of The Labyrinth RPG
  90. RPG Review of Critical Core RPG
  91. RPG Review of Dark Crystal RPG
  92. RPG Review of Doctor Who Adventures in Time and Space (DWAITS) RPG
  93. RPG Review of The One Ring RPG (TOR RPG)
  94. RPG Review of The One Ring 2nd Edition (TOR2)
  95. RPG Review of Adventures in Middle-earth RPG (AiMe)
  96. RPG Review of FATE Accelerated
  97. RPG Review of FATE Dresden Files
  98. RPG Review of FATE Accelerated Dresden Files
  99. RPG Review of Bubblegumshoe
  100. RPG Review of Kids on Bikes
  101. RPG Review of Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game (BFRPG)
  102. RPG Review of Cryptomancer
  103. RPG Review of Pathfinder 2nd Edition Starter Box
  104. RPG Review of D&D 5e Starter Boxes
  105. RPG Review of Rolemaster
  106. RPG Review of MERP
  107. RPG Review of Basic D&D 1983, Frank Menzter Edition (BECMI)
  108. RPG Review of Expert D&D (BECMI)
  109. RPG Review of Companion D&D (BECMI)
  110. RPG Review of Master D&D (BECMI)
  111. RPG Review of Immortals D&D (BECMI)
  112. RPG Review of Original D&D (OD&D) Reissued Boxed Set
  113. RPG Review of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition (AD&D1)
  114. RPG Review of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition (AD&D2)
  115. RPG Review of D&D 3.x (D&D3x)
  116. RPG Review of D&D 4 (D&D4)
  117. RPG Review of D&D 5 (D&D5 or 5e)
  118. RPG Review of Serenity RPG
  119. RPG Review of Firefly RPG
  120. RPG Review of GURPS and GURPS Lite
  121. RPG Review of Vampire, White Wolf, World of Darkness (TRPG and Larp)
  122. RPG Review of Neverwinter Nights:Enhanced Edition ERPG
  123. RPG Review of Eve Online
  124. RPG Review of LotRO
  125. RPG Review of DDO
  126. RPG Review of WoW
  127. RPG Review of Ultimate Online
  128. RPG Review of Ultima Online (UOX)
  129. RPGA - Role-Playing Game Advocate
  130. RPGF - Role-Playing Game Facilitator
  131. Role-Playing Game Ability Model
  132. Role-Playing Games and Education
  133. Role-Playing Games as Tools for Social Good
  134. Role-Playing Games Used as Educational and Therapeutic Tools for Youth and Adults
  135. RPG for Education and Therapy
  136. Serious Games as a Complimentary Tool for Social Skill Development in Young People: A Systematic Review of the Literature
  137. Sex, sexuality, and eroticism in role-playing games and gaming
  138. Therapeutic Recreation / Recreational Therapy Ability Model
  139. Tabletop Role-Playing Gaming Using Online Meeting and Tools, Pros and Cons
  140. Theories Rough List Relevant to RPG Theory, Assessment, Research, Tips & Tools of the Trade, Standards, and Related Discussions / Lectures at RPG Research: https://w3.rpgresearch.com/Members/hawke/recent-rpg-theory-related-discussions-lectures-at-rpg-research
  141. Therapeutic Recreation Ability Model https://rpgresearch.com/tr-ability-model
  142. Thresholds of Dependency and RPGs, What is Too Much Gaming?
  143. Transtheoretical Model (TTM) of Change, Therapeutic Recreation and Role-Playing Games
  144. Tuckman Small Group Dynamics and Role-Playing Gaming
  145. Twitch Culture and Tabletop Role-Playing Games - Consequences of Entertainment Streaming, Competition, and TPK
  146. Using Role-Playing Games to Enhance the Learning Process, from the Cognitive Neuropsychology Perspective
  147. Voicing for RPGs Workshop 1 - Short Version
  148. Voicing for RPGs Workshop 1 - Long version
  149. Voicing for RPGs Workshop 2 - Short version
  150. Voicing for RPGs Workshop 2 - Long Version
  151. Why "Waste" Time Discusing Role-Playing Game History?
  152. Why The Popular Negative Stereotypes About Role-playing Gamers is Important to Address And What You can Do to promote change.
  153. Why People Like Role-Playing Gaming
  154. xR RPGs (AR, VR, MR, etc.)
  155. 1983 - The Truth and Fiction About Role-Playing Games like Dungeons & Dragons, — W.A. Hawkes-Robinson, Realms of Inquiry, Essay, 8 pages.
  156. Games & Resource Allocation Training - Examples of How So Many Conflate RPG, Games, TRPG, & CRPG. https://w3.rpgresearch.com/research/archives/public/public-blogs-test/games-resource-allocation-training-examples-of-how-so-many-conflate-rpg-games-trpg-crpg
  157. Escapism and Gaming - https://w3.rpgresearch.com/research/archives/public/public-blogs-test/others-research/escapism-and-gaming
  158. Role-Playing Game Research - Healthy Escape versus Unhealthy Escapism - https://www.rpgresearch.com/blog/blog-news-category/healthy-escape-versus-unhealthy-escapism
  159. List of Anecdotes of RPG Success Stories https://www.rpgresearch.com/anecdotes 
  160.  

By Date (Oldest at Top)

  1. 1979 - Fantasy in psychiatric patients; exploring a myth — Starker, Steven. “.” Hospital & Community Psychiatry, 30.1 (1979): 25-30. Rather than getting lost in fantasies, psychiatric patients generally suffer from too little fantasy. 6 pages. (1979, January).
  2. 1980 - Fluid and Rigid Boundaries of Paranoid and Nonparanoid Schizophrenics on a Role-Playing Task. — Abstract. Johnson, David Quinlan, Donald
  3. 1980 - Reflections of a Real-Life Cleric — lCollins, Arthur W. (1980, September). Reflections of a Real-Life Cleric. Dragon, #41, 6-8. United Methodist minister’s essay on the theological aspects of RPG. 2 pages.
  4. 1982 - Adventuring with shaky hands — Sampson, Judith (1982, September). Adventuring with shaky hands. Dragon, #53, page unstated. Playing RPG despite cerebal palsy. 1 page.
  5.  1982 - Legendary creatures and small game playing culture: Medieval lore in contemporary roleplaying games — Fine, Gary Alan (1982). Legendary creatures and small game playing culture: Medieval lore in contemporary roleplaying games. Keystone Folklore, 11-27. How RPG preserves folklore and generates its own within individual game groups. 17 small pages.
  6. ~1983 - The Truth and Fantasy About Role-Playing Games, — W.A. Hawkes-Robinson, Realms of Inquiry, Essay, 8 pages.
  7. 1984 - D&D phenomenon — Sutton, Roger (1984, November). D&D phenomenon, "In the YA Corner" column, from SLJ School Library Journal, page 82. Use of RPG in stimulating library use by youth, by a Chicago branch librarian.
  8. 1984 - Effects of simulation game play upon oral language development and internalization of locus of control among mildly handicapped adolescents — Kallam, Michael L. (1984, May). Effects of simulation game play upon oral language development and internalization of locus of control among mildly handicapped adolescents. Oklahoma State University. Significant improvement over control group found. 88 pages.
  9.