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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nedjer" data-source="post: 5342476" data-attributes="member: 83796">The benefits of D&D are related to the style of play.Games emphasising challenge, mystery, player choice, world building, exploration, discovery, tricks and character development - along with a generous dose of compelling combat - appear to engage and develop a wide range of otherwise elusive higher executive skills.Skills used in tactical combat simulations may well contribute some transferable skills, but these are a subset of a much broader spectrum, and more concerned with procedural learning than critical thinking and active learning experiences.This is not a slight against 4e or anything else. 4e can be played in a great many ways. However, if you wish to make a paedagogical case that's where the science currently leads.Please check out:<a href="http://thistlegames.com/thistle/2010/08/design-games/" target="_blank">Design Games « Thistle Games</a><a href="http://thistlegames.com/thistle/2010/01/tabletop-rpgs-and-skills-part-1/" target="_blank">Tabletop RPGs and Skills: Part 1 « Thistle Games</a><a href="http://thistlegames.com/thistle/2009/11/games-gaming-and-skills/" target="_blank">Games, Gaming and Skills « Thistle Games</a><a href="http://thistlegames.com/thistle/rpg-and-design-game-research/" target="_blank">RPG and Design Game Research « Thistle Games</a>From a curriculum/ game design perspective you may be interested in checking out the features of a design game RPG. Not as a play alternative to the headlining D&D, but to look see an experimental cognitive learning system. The game presents as a 'standard' fantasy system, (and combat's quite 'direct' when it kicks off).However, the rules/ guidelines promote frameworking, scaffolding and design game activities, which can focus gameplay on 'deploying' critical thinking and collective problem-solving. The design specifically models human cognitive processes to help to engage these skills:modularparallelsynapticattenuation of synaptic linksvisual and semantic language systems, (e.g. grammar and syntax)emergent properties. . .<a href="http://www.treasurerpg.com/downloads.htm" target="_blank">http://www.treasurerpg.com/downloads.htm</a>HTH</blockquote>

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