phillysteakandcheese
Jan 17, 2007, 01:29 PM
Do you now, or have you ever, played pen and paper based role-playing games - like Dungeons & Dragons?
As a kid, and even through university, I played all kind of games in different genres. It was always a social experience, a theatrical performance, and really just plain fun, but an activity I never really pursued after I graduated from university.
I recently started looking into these games again (after almost 18 years), and it strikes me how much this activity really is "exercise for the brain"... I learned how to focus through reading and understanding the game rules, I became much more organized, I came to understand team dynamics , I even learned speaking and performance skills - all of which fed my confidence. But mostly, I am really amazed at how how much these games fed my imagination and bolstered my creativity.
And yet ... Despite all these benefits, I still have a twinge of embarrassment when I start talking about them. You would think by now I wouldn't be worried about being called a "D&D geek" anymore... :)
As a kid, and even through university, I played all kind of games in different genres. It was always a social experience, a theatrical performance, and really just plain fun, but an activity I never really pursued after I graduated from university.
I recently started looking into these games again (after almost 18 years), and it strikes me how much this activity really is "exercise for the brain"... I learned how to focus through reading and understanding the game rules, I became much more organized, I came to understand team dynamics , I even learned speaking and performance skills - all of which fed my confidence. But mostly, I am really amazed at how how much these games fed my imagination and bolstered my creativity.
And yet ... Despite all these benefits, I still have a twinge of embarrassment when I start talking about them. You would think by now I wouldn't be worried about being called a "D&D geek" anymore... :)