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@ttrpg_psy_eng
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14subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 10 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1003652685893 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @ttrpg_psy_eng |
| Description | On the psychology of tabletop role-playing games and tabletop role-playing games in psychology English version of https://t.me/ttrpg_psy By https://t.me/Nick_Roganov_psy |
| Created | Between 1 December 2025 and 31 May 2026— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 12 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 2 |
| On Telegram | t.me/ttrpg_psy_eng |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Aug 2026, 00:31 | 14 | no change |
| 10 Aug 2026, 00:46 | 14 | first reading |
14 posts held, back to 13 June 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 5 of 6 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 10 August 2026 |
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| Posts held | 14 (13 June 2026 – 10 August 2026) |
| Views total | 83 |
| Reactions total | 5 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 12 Aug 2026, 00:31 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 12 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. Below Telegram’s rounding threshold, so these counts are exact.
Measured directly from 3 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
13 reactions across 13 posts, in 2 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 76.9% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 10 | 76.9% | |
| ❤ | 3 | 23.1% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 13 of the 14 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 13reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 14 most recent posts we hold, published 13 June 2026 to 10 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Freshly back from the festival, which went great. Not only did it have a special cosplay lineup, but most of the regular participants were dressed up in a play theme More will be surely written about the event, for now however I want to go on with the topic - here’s what one of the researchers of game psychology, Jamie Madigan, PhD, wrote on costumes: Players in one Dungeons & Dragons game I ran got into the campai…
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In Russia, tabletop role-playing games are only now beginning to gain relative popularity, while back in the late 20th century, few people even knew they existed. Far more widely known at the time were live-action role-playing games (traditionally called "fieldies"), which gathered the participants not around a table but out in the open🌳 They, too, chose their roles and played them, much like actors on a stage — only…
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Never do I cease to be amazed by the results of an experiment conducted by the University of Barcelona in 2018 First, participants were asked to answer a series of questions designed to reveal unconscious age bias, and to complete several tasks from the Tower of London test🔴🔵 A week later, the same people were invited to a special pavilion, where they put on a VR-headset and a suit with sensors. Some of them then s…
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Getting on with the topic of easing internal, psychological immersion through the use of external tools it needs to be mentioned that alongside visual and audio support, tangible physical props can serve as a solid foothold for the imagination👣 Here's a nimble character, having shown impressive ingenuity, slips into the private office of the port customs chief — and there, in a hidden compartment, finds a letter... …
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Even though Summer is already halfway through, many wonderful, warm days are still lying ahead, and it would be a blasphemy to miss them😉 That is why I eagerly joined the company of wonderful GMs and plan to spend the second weekend of August at the next festival of the "9 Lives" club Combining outdoor camping⛺ with running TTRPGs — what’s that if not a wonderful summer pastime?! Come and join in on it too🔥
While writing the previous posts alongside preparing for my own games, I found myself thinking more than once about just how great it is to have the current technologies at our ⚙️ Out of curiosity, I dug through my archives and found a character sheet from a quarter of a century ago — 2001. That was the year the first official TTRPG rulebook was published in Russia — the fourth edition of Ars Magica🔤🅰️ My friends an…
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Some specialists believe that imagination — the defining feature of tabletop role-playing games — should have as few constraints as possible. That illustrations, soundscapes, costumes, terrain, and other props only hold it back⛔️ While respecting their right to take that approach to running games, I personally prefer to fill mine with all available means — those, that ease immersion and support roleplay from a psych…
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Do standees help the GM?🪧 Yes, undoubtedly. Perhaps even more so than they do the players. Those, after all, have only one character to portray in every session. While the GM has a multitude of them and needs to switch between acting them out on the spot That said, there is a technical challenge to using standees: the game is typically run from behind a screen or a laptop/tablet — and often both🌟👩💻 Of course, you …
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The tool I mentioned last time is something I've come to call a stander — a simple piece of cardboard placed in front of each player, serving as an instant reminder of their character's name and appearance for everyone at the table🪧 It's best to make them double-sided — this way they're visible to those sitting on either side, as well as to the player personally2️⃣ And seeing your own character before speaking and …
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As both a psychologist and a GM, I always welcome and support my players' creative initiatives — and I don't get upset if they personally find (let alone drawn) illustrative art that doesn't quite match the image I originally had in mind🧑🏿🎤 If those differences don't contradict the story or the world's style, let them stay. And if something absolutely needs to be changed, one can simply ask a neural network to handl…
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I remember, several years ago, finding myself at a game run by the wonderful Daria, the weaver of Tales from the Gloom I was deeply impressed by her ability to catch bright emotional moments and ask players to describe not only the actions, but also the thoughts and feelings of their characters🤩 And in some cases, even granting them the freedom to define what they see around them — thereby creating new details of th…
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Staying aligned with the channel's main focus, I must note the psychological aspect behind players’ music choice🪩 A great tool for increasing engagement and strengthening the connection between Frame 1 and Frame 3 can be the character's soundtrack — a selection of musical tracks that illustrate their personality and abilities, conveying their inner world, beliefs, and values Just some time ago this was a thing done…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 14 posts we hold for @ttrpg_psy_eng. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Citation-graph rank — 747,131 of 1,340,412entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 12 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Roleplaying a shrink 🎭🎲” (@ttrpg_psy_eng), 14 subscribers as measured 12 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/ttrpg_psy_eng.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.