Project Documents

Various essays and documents related to the RPG Research Project.

History of Role Playing Gaming — — last modified 2008-05-23 23:21

Role playing gaming has it's origins far back in ancient history with wargaming. Wargaming is the simulation of combat strategies and tactics represented in reduced scale with various rules, and ...

Possible Therapeutic Aspects Role Playing Gaming — — last modified 2008-05-23 23:21

RPGs provide an unprecedented range of benefits for a leisure activity, some of these are: Social: Cooperation with diverse people/cultures/background on common goals Leadership: Walking in others ...

Examples of Role Playing Gaming — — last modified 2008-05-23 23:21

A very basic and quick example of a role-playing process follows...

HistoryAndTherapeuticAspectsOfRPG20040930a.pdf — by Hawke — last modified 2007-10-27 05:09

Original Essay by Hawke Robinson on The History and Therapeutic Aspects of Role Playing Gaming. 2004-09-30 in PDF Format.

The Battle Over Role Playing Gaming (and Therapeutic Aspects) — by Hawke — last modified 2007-10-27 05:09

This 7 page (11 pages if you include the citations/references) essay covers an overview of the debate over role playing gaming since it's inception up to present day. The looks at role playing gaming from the perspective of a psychological and psychiatric possible benefits and deficits to the activity.

Battle Over Role Playing Gaming Therapeutic Aspects Wiki Page — — last modified 2008-05-23 23:21

This is the Wiki version of the essay "Battle Over Role Playing Gaming (Therapeutic Aspects)".

History and Therapeutic Aspects of Role Playing Gaming (web version) — by Hawke — last modified 2008-10-07 21:15

This is the web-based version of the document originally available as a downloadable PDF.