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Willie Knoetze
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Wreckademic engaged in academentia. Former International Man of Mystery turned doting dog dad and RPG enthusiast. Current research focus: Ludonarrative Design for Learning. (TRPGs. I study TTRPGs.) Famously, "not so bad once you get to know" me.
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Plot twist: your character’s emotional breakdown is usable research data. Meet the #I-AM framework, our guide to game-born insights | Willie Knoetze doi.org/10.1177/1609...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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We're looking for a sensitivity reader for an upcoming #ttrpg who is connected to India and its culture. If you're interested, please PM us for details. #ttrpgCommunity #dnd #rpg #ttrpgsky #ttrpgs
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
@dangergal.bsky.social Dear Lisa, thank the Nine I've found you. I would like to include your model re: the Hero's Journey in my thesis. With your permission, may I also request the appropriate / desired referencing details for your model? I’m knee deep in the wayback machine, with no luck.
October 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
A question for ‘independent’ academic authors: How do you fund your article publications? Is it ethical and acceptable to run crowdsourcing campaigns to cover APC-fees etc?
How about Ko-fi pages?
#PhDlife #PhD #academics
#academia #wreckademic
October 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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has anyone written about the process of conversational repair in analog games? specifically thinking about stuff like:
- "i move my meeple 5 spaces" "i think it's 6 spaces"
- "oh, last turn i should've given you an extra 3 tokens. do you want them now?"
- "it's too late now, but for next time..."
October 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Worldbuilding game: The group decides on a basic technology level (bronze age, iron age, etc), gets a blank map. Each player colours in an area and names the culture that lives there.

Then each player takes a piece of paper, notes their culture at the top, and lists the other culture names.

1/6
October 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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GM Tip: When a player surprises you with a clever idea, reward it. Even if it wasn’t planned, let creativity reshape the situation.
#ttrpg #dnd #rpg
July 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Day two of DM'ing as dissemination of knowledge:
Reno & cleanup pushed us to multimodal play on a messenger app – and the shizniz got real! (Nothing's stopping this buggy.)
#TTRPG for Learning and Development #TRPG Research
June 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Day one of DM'ing as dissemination of knowledge:
People came! We did the thing!! People stayed 🤩 We got into character – and people are coming back!
#TTRPG for learning and development.
June 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Homebrewing.
Just do it.
bit.ly/CPCttrpg
June 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Soon...
🧙🐉
bit.ly/CPCttrpg
June 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
#TRPG folks! I'm putting out the Call for Participants for my #TTRPG gam... Ludonarrative Research #Workshop series that I'm hosting at Coventry University ( @covuni.bsky.social ). It starts next Friday, if you're keen: forms.office.com/e/Rwc8RDjhRG

#mixedmethods @covuniresearch.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM