All I need to know I learned from D&D

[Theo R Cwithin]

Just stumbled across this slide show, using D&D as a teaching/motivational aid:

All I need to know I learned from D&D

There's a vid of the presentation & the slides.

Anyone else use D&D in class/at work for something like this?

 

[Jeff Wilder]

"You don't play Dungeons and Dragons for all those years and not learn a thing or two about courage." -- The X-Files, "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"

 

[lightgun_suicide]

I remember when I began playing AD&D 2e when I was 10 realising my elementry mathmatics were becoming much much faster. It got my writing a lot more than I likely would have.

The kids today getting really into MMO's and CCG's are likely getting a new range of benefits.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

I remember when I began playing AD&D 2e when I was 10 realising my elementry mathmatics were becoming much much faster. It got my writing a lot more than I likely would have.

Actually, that just brought back some vague memory from primary school, when I was 10 or so. IIRC, the teacher proposed playing Red Box in the "gifted" class. But I don't remember actually playing in class; it was the early 80's in small town America, so maybe the witch-hunters in the community put a stop to it!

 

[vagabundo]

Maybe not directly, but DND made me the imaginative person I am today. And trait has helped me overcome any problems that have cropped up in real life.

I <3 DND...

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

"There's no problem you can't solve with a big enough pile of dead bad guys."

 

[avin]

I have learned from GURPS I should NEVER look behind my shoulder while running in full plate.

 

[Jhaelen]

Well, I learned English by reading the AD&D books.

At one time my English teacher wondered where I knew all those odd words from...

 

[Silvercat Moonpaw]

I didn't learn it specifically from D&D, but from what grew out of my roleplaying in general:

"Being serious brings boredom. Being crazy brings enlightenment."

 

[Fifth Element]

Notice that he uses a house rule when making one of his points.

Edit: Also, he makes fun of 3E grappling rules. He must hate D&D.