Role-Playing Game Models

There are a number of RPG Models trying to explain role-playing games for academics, researchers, and practitioners. Those will be linked to from this page.

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For our RPG Training programs we start with the Hawkes-Robinson RPG Model as a practical understanding of where the boundaries of which activities are role-playing games, and which are not role-playing games, and this falls under the 4 RPG Formats to begin.

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