The Playing Stories project is formed as an attempt to survey the myriad of motivations for why we play RPGs, in tabletop and digital formats. In conjunction with the survey, I ask for your help in filling out a quick survey available at: www.playingstories.org  
The motivation behind the project was formed via an on-going research project on the way people communicate when they play RPGs in tabletop and digital formats, that has been running for a bit over two years now. When talking to the participating players, it was obvious that the reasons for why we play RPGs vary a lot. It also looks like the motivations for playing tabletop and digital games varies. I would like to look into this in more detail, and have therefore created a simple website, www.playingstories.org, where volunteers can access two surveys, one on tabletop RPGs, one on digital RPGs (single- and multi-player). I am hoping to get a few hundred people to participate and will of course post the numbers on the website for the community to enjoy. It is strictly a research, not-for-profit project, and no commercial interests are involved. I hope you will take the time to stop by the site.  Feedback, critique, suggestions - anything - is welcome.
 
 

Ok, I'll bite, how are you making sure this survey is truly based on a representative sample? I mean, if you get 200 people from the Forge filling out your research, the "conclusions" that research ends up making about RPGs will end up being VERY different from if you get 200 D&D fans from the Wizards board filling out your research.

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