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    Ethos in RPGs

    Since one of the things we're measuring is perception, that works out for what we're trying to accomplish. Just getting a best guess is still useful. Thanks!
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    Ethos in RPGs

    Hello! My name is Matt Green and I am a PhD student in the Writing and Rhetoric program at George Mason University. I am conducting a study on tabletop roleplaying games; with this study, I’m interested in how players explore different identities through their characters. Toward this end, I...
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    RPG Rules Study

    Ok, SIGNIFICANTLY past the conference date, but better late than never? Here's that presentation. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzPgFMohGCl4TDRHZkpwNU1XbzA/view?usp=sharing
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    RPG Rules Study

    Honestly, the more variety, the better. Thanks much :D Absolutely! It's going to start out as a conference presentation, and I'll do a write up for that and post it after I present next month.
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    RPG Rules Study

    Well, the big goal is exploring the reasons how and why players appropriate games for their own use. I don't know that there will be anything particularly useful to the world that comes out of it, but it is part of the thread that a gentleman named Ian Bogost started with his book Persuasive...
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    RPG Rules Study

    Thanks for pointing that out-I added some clarification that was in the prototype but got lost in the translation to the Google form.
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    RPG Rules Study

    Ah, apologies for the confusion. 'Game' is supposed to encompass a campaign, a one-shot, or any self-contained number of sessions. Game in the sense of the setting and ruleset, not game in the sense of the one session.
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    RPG Rules Study

    Hello! My name is Matt Green and I am a PhD student in the Writing and Rhetoric program at George Mason University. I am conducting a study on tabletop roleplaying games; specifically, I’m interested in how play groups approach rules and rule making. Toward this end, I was hoping some of...
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