Role-Playing Game Professional Specialty Areas & Specific Specialties

With 45+ years of experience, we provide services and training-in-depth across a broad number of specialty areas and specific specialties.

Primary Specialty Areas:

Role-Playing Game Professional (RPGP) Specialty Areas are the high-level categories that contain many specific specialties requiring additional expertise for mastery.

    For example under the RPGP Specific Populations Specialty Area, are specialties such as the:

• Young children (ages 2 to 9) population specialist

• Autism Spectrum (ASD/PDD) population specialist

• Deaf and Hard of Hearing population specialist, etc.

As of 2023, there are currently 12 RPGP Primary Specialty Areas listed in the RPGP Specifications documentation.:

1. Community settings use of role-playing games (RPGs) for volunteers & professionals

2. Recreational optimized use of RPGs for laypersons & professionals

3. Entertainment performative use of role-playing games for professionals

4. Educational application of RPGs for academic & personal development professionals

5. Professional development application of RPGs for executives & other professionals

6. Healthcare application of RPGs for professionals from diverse disciplines & settings

7. Research across many disciplines, including a wide range of roles involved in studies on RPGs (such as the Player Archetype Specialists and Archivists).

8. Game formats including: tabletop (TRPG), live-action (LRPG), electronic (ERPG), and hybrids (HRPG)

9. Analog game development (non-electronic with many specialties)

10. Electronic game development (with many specialties)

11. Accessible adaptations of RPGs to reduce barriers to entry & ongoing participation

12. Specific populations including many specialties based on developmental age, ability, special needs, etc.)
    

Specialty Area: Recreational use of Role-Playing Games

Non-professional Recreational RPG Laypersons We provide training and other services to help non-professionals interested in improving their recreational (typical) use of role-playing games for an optimal gaming experience for themselves and their friends/players.

Professional Recreational RPG Professionals We provided direct recreational professional role-playing game services as well as training for those aspiring to become, or further improve, their professional role-playing game services.