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No Longer Open To Public on Fridays! DONATE Today: East-Central Spokane Role-Playing Game Community Center New Hours Update July 20th, 2023
Due to an increasing power bill for air conditioning and decreased donations, we can no longer be open on Fridays to the public. We're still open Saturdays. DONATE TODAY TO KEEP THE CENTER OPEN.
Why It is So Difficult For Us To Provide Concise Pithy Messaging: 13+ Diverse Audiences We Serve!
One of the number one challenges we have is organizing our content, website, media, and messaging in more concise and accessible ways. This is difficult due to serving at least 13 different audiences
Healthy Escape versus Unhealthy Escapism
Some people assume all forms of escape are unhealthy, but decades of research shows a much better understanding, there are adaptive and maladaptive forms of escapism.
No Longer Open Fridays. DONATE TODAY! New Role-Playing Game Community Center Hours Effective June 1st, 2023
Role-Playing Game Community Center hours changing for Fridays to 5-9 pm. Saturdays still 1-5 pm. UPDATE JULY 2023: SEE https://www.rpgresearch.com/calendar FOR CURRENT SCHEDULE CHANGES.
Role-Playing Games and Politics
Can tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs) be used to provide a space to work through sociopolitical issues and strategies?
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Keep the RPG Community Center Doors Open to the Public, hurry and Donate Today!
The RPG Community center urgently needs to donations to keep the accessible free programs open to the community it serves.
Moving to a Membership Model
The RPG Research Board of Directors has approved transitioning RPG Research to a membership model. This means by default everyone will be a non-donating member by default in order to have access to co
RPG Community Center accommodating Blind, Visually Impaired, Deaf, and Hard of Hearing in addition to others.
RPG Community Center accommodating Blind, Visually Impaired, Deaf, and Hard of Hearing in addition to others from ages 4 years old through senior adults, and everyone in between.
Role-Playing Game Research Archives Once Again Available to the Public
After extensive challenges with insurance companies (see earlier postings for explanations), we can finally once again re-open the 10,000+ content items in the world's largest free and open knowledge
RPG Research's Hawke Robinson on GenCon TV List
By popular request and for your convenience, here is a list of all the GenCon TV episodes that RPG Research's founder, Hawke Robinson, has been a special guest on over the years.
Wow! We have unboxed a LOT of games recently, check out this list! And many more on the way!
RPG Research has a weekly live-broadcast of "Games Unboxing and Actual Play Evaluations", Sundays 6-9 pm PST on https://twitch.tv/rpgresearch. This is not your everyday unboxing or game evaluations sh
Support RPG Research on Twitch - Up Vote Adding RPG Research as Charity on Twitch.tv
IMPORTANT: Please up vote adding RPG Research as charity on Twitch so it can be supported by Twitch channels - also Follow and/or Subscribe. Spread the word.
Next Batch of Role-Playing Game Master Level 1 Trainees Starting Soon - Sign Up today!
The 501(c)3 non-profit charity, RPG Research, offers the world's most rigorous role-playing game master training available in a diploma format. We offer it freely to our volunteers, only asking that i
RPG Community Center Public Hours Update, August 25th, 2022
This posting covers details on the updated schedule and programming options for the RPG Community Center in Spokane, as of August 26th, 2022.
RPG Community Center Status Update August 26th With Some More Insurance and Logistics Updates
Role-Playing Game Community Center Status Update and Some More Insurance and Logistics Updates - The challenges of opening an all-RPG community center for children, senior adults, neurodiverse, ...
Question: "All I've seen is Dimension 20 and Critical Role. What are "real" sessions like?"
We ran a 3 year actual play taletop series specifically to address this unintended "Mike Mercer effect" where people were expecting game masters to be performing in a similar fashion which was prevent
Good News! Approval received to resume access for younger and older players!
We finally have the okay from the insurance company to resume allowing access to our programs for younger and older participants! In order to get insurance we had to temporarily limit our programs to
Pardon the Dust - We're Scrambling to Move Servers, Content, and Fix Breaks
We are frantically moving to our brand new servers and daily moving content as fast as our volunteer staff can accomplish. Thank you for your patience and support.
RSVP for TolkienMoot XVIII Today!
TolkienMoot XVIII is just 2 weeks away! RSVP today! July 30th and 31st.