The Wheelchair Friendly RPG Trailer

[talien]

Sharing this on behalf of a friend. I think it's a worthy cause!

The RPG Trailer will make it much easier to provide role-playing games to a much broader geographic area and to under-served locations and populations. It will include a fully ADA compliant, wheelchair friendly bathroom (toilet, sink, & shower), an easy-access rear entrance ramp, an option for a lower ride-height to reduce the steepness of the angle of the ramp, flaps on each end of the ramp to smooth out rolling over it, easily removable table and flip-up couches (that can also double as flip-down beds), This includes all forms of role-playing games: (tabletop, live-action (LARP), and computer-based)

For tabletop, the trailer will accommodate up to 6 participants in wheelchairs at a time, or up to 10 non-wheelchair players.

For LARPing, in addition to being able to haul a lot more LARP-related materials (they can quickly take up a lot of space), additional features can be added such as exterior lighting (for night sessions), exterior shower (cool off on the hot days), external awning to add extra space for setting up gear in the shade, and of course a toilet, shower, sink, fridge, etc. so that those lengthy LARP sessions at remote locations can still have "facilities" better than those nasty "honeybuckets" port-a-potties at some places.

For computer-based RPG, I have 4+ consoles (Wii, PS/2, etc), and several PCs that can allow for various targeted goals of guided video gaming for specific needs (TBI for example).
The funding goal is for the down payment and transportation costs of a portable office (trailer) that is fully wheelchair-accessible for participants. This trailer would completely replace the need for the office gaming rooms. After the down payment, the monthly cost of the trailer is less than my monthly office costs.

You can see photos of a mock-up of the proposed trailer design (rough approximation), and explanations about the features for wheelchair access and other requirements here:
http://rpgr.org/blog/the-rpg-trailer

Please consider contributing: http://www.gofundme.com/rpgtrailer

 

[rpgresearch]

Live Q&A on #RPGNET About RPG Research Project & RPG Trailer Campaign

You can have all your questions answered tomorrow if you wish:
Join Live RPG Research Q&A on #RPGNET - http://rpgr.org/news/join-live-rpg-r...-q-a-on-rpgnet - Join the Q&A Session on the #RPGNET Chat server. Dan will be hosting as Hawke Robinson, founder of The RPG Research Project, discusses his research on the effects of role-playing games, and discusses the wheelchair Friendly RPG Trailer campaign. Join us live Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Central Time...
Hawke Robinson has been gaming since 1979, and researching the effects of role-playing games since 2004 as The RPG Research Project. He has also been developing and providing role-playing game sessions to help achieve therapeutic and educational goals of various populations, including:
At risk youth
Autism Spectrum (ASD / PDD )
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
The Deaf & Hard of Hearing communities
and other special needs groups
Hawke is registered with the Washington State Department of Health as Recreation Therapist, and is a part-time undergraduate student at Eastern Washington University, working on an interdisciplinary degree in Recreation Therapy, Music Therapy, Neuroscience, & Research Psychology. His research is self-funded, and he provides the RPG services without charge to participants.
The RPG Trailer campaign is a fund raiser to help build a wheelchair friend trailer to help provide role-playing gaming to special needs populations throughout North America.
Join the Chat Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015, 7:00 pm Central Time (5:00 pm Pacific).
Here is information on the Q&A Format Rules: https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/qa-format/
If you do not have a favorite IRC client, you can use this link for the web-based chat client.
If you do have a favorite Internet Relay Chat client, then point it to:
Server: irc.magicstar.net
Channel: #rpgnet
Here is the calendar for upcoming Live Q&A Chat Sessions: https://www.google.com/calendar/embe...dar.google.com
The transcripts of past Q&A sessions can be found here: https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/
Please donate to the Wheelchair Friendly RPG Trailer Campaign Today, and help spread the word!
Please swing by and join the conversation with the gaming community.
Happy Gaming!