It's also known to lead to lower recidivism rates. https://www.vice.com/en/article/yvwnpx/dragons-in-the-department-of-corrections
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It's interesting, I hope this research leads to a higher population to back it up. I mean, you could probably just reach out to different groups of people and pay for the snacks/connect them with a dm/supply the adventure and amp the population much higher.
No, then you have many compounding and interacting variables. Maybe it's free snacks that improve mental health. Maybe it's the features of the room. Maybe it's specific adventures.
Even with large numbers, experiments need some controls. You either need to know the context details so you can account for them, or ensure they're the same across all observations.
Good points. Could you control for those factors? Granted thr room features one would be hard to do in an inexpensive way, so third parties may not be the option. Food for thought, thank you.
With a large enough test, you could provide several adventures, several systems even (there's zero reason to make the claim specifically about one commercial product when TTRPGs are a whole hobby category), with or without snacks, in a controlled environment, with a set roster of GMs. It would just take many thousands of participants over years to run the study.
Sounds like a good set of campaigns and some needed data, win win. When do we start?
I mean, there's a number of reasons that might be the case, not the least of which being it's a group activity, which is really beneficial for social creatures like humans.
It's primarily socialising and having fun with friends, so it makes sense it would improve mental health.
oh man. I wish that was the case for the white wolf games, or the dc/marvel super hero ones, or shadowrun or gurps or champions :)
Nope. Only the one that makes big money for Hasbro is good for mental health.
[me, trying to survive whennour group has cancelled 5 weeks in a row]
It's all part of the Mind Flayers plan to harvest our brains