RPG Rules Study

[Mmagsgreen]

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 you might be interested in filling out a seven question survey. If you are, I would like to direct you to this page, which contains the informed consent document with a link to the survey at the bottom. I’ll also be keeping an eye on this thread to chat in case you’re interested in talking about this sort of thing.

We anticipate the survey should take you between five and thirty minutes, depending on how detailed you wish to get.

Here’s the link to the informed consent document: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bz...kQ3czZTQlZOTDQ

IRBNet Number: 986127

[zeek0]

I've sent in a response.I'd be greatly interested in the hypothesis of your project, and the results you end up garnering. Let us know!

[ComaVision]

I've also sent a response. I'd like to see the final result as well.

[Mmagsgreen]

Indeed! I fully plan on sharing the results with folks. The first thing out of the gate will be a conference presentation that will be happening in about a month. With a little luck, I'll go on to get it published somewhere (though that might take a bit!)

[Zombimode]

Also sent in a response.

Some remarks: most of the questions were fairly broad and would require quite some time (and space!) to answer in the fullest. This is especially true when explaining the intent and reasons of house rules.
If those house rules where informed changes, it can be a lengthy affair to explain them. Many houserules and reasons for them only make sense in the context of the original rule set.

I tried to Keep my answers as short as possible and limited my self to very few examples to underline my Points. But in the end, many parts of my answers will only be understandable if you are actually familiar with the D&D 3.5 rule set.

[Mmagsgreen]

Also sent in a response.

Some remarks: most of the questions were fairly broad and would require quite some time (and space!) to answer in the fullest. This is especially true when explaining the intent and reasons of house rules.
If those house rules where informed changes, it can be a lengthy affair to explain them. Many houserules and reasons for them only make sense in the context of the original rule set.

I tried to Keep my answers as short as possible and limited my self to very few examples to underline my Points. But in the end, many parts of my answers will only be understandable if you are actually familiar with the D&D 3.5 rule set.

Thanks for taking the time! Fortunately, I am quite familiar with 3.5. In cases where I am not familiar with a system in question, I will be reading up to become familiar.

[Recherché]

Working through the survey slowly and I will say that it's kind of odd for me because I'm in two different groups at the same time currently and they have different approaches to house rules. Since you asked about the "most recent game" you'd get two different sets of results depending on what day of the week I do the survey.

[Mmagsgreen]

Working through the survey slowly and I will say that it's kind of odd for me because I'm in two different groups at the same time currently and they have different approaches to house rules. Since you asked about the "most recent game" you'd get two different sets of results depending on what day of the week I do the survey.

The hope is that I'll get enough responses to identify some broad trends or common talking points that are widely characteristic of the hobby. In a case where you have to decide between two, I would recommend you go with the one you're most excited about.

[EdokTheTwitch]

Submitted my response. The system is 3.5, but I tried to keep the descriptions general. I wasn't really sure how much information you would need, hope 2-3 lines per question is enough :)

[Mmagsgreen]

Submitted my response. The system is 3.5, but I tried to keep the descriptions general. I wasn't really sure how much information you would need, hope 2-3 lines per question is enough :)

Awesome, thanks!

[Knaight]

Submitted (yesterday). It's going to be one of those systems you're probably going to have to familiarize yourself with too.

[Mmagsgreen]

So, a bit late (and apologies for that), but here's the presentation I gave at the College Composition and Communication conference this year, with the results of this study:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzP...ew?usp=sharing

[Grod_The_Giant]

Yeah, sure.

EDIT: Did not see the study was a year old. Sorry!