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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Koewn" data-source="post: 4873641" data-attributes="member: 13172">I work at a university, and my wife's been taking classes there this summer.She IM'd me middle of the day, and said she had a computational biologist lecturing her class. He'd just made a analogy comparing the randomness of a certain gene sequencing problem he works with to rolling dice, like d6's or d20's. He ended up having to explain a 'd20' as a die used in DND to one confused student.This professor ended up being one of the ones I support, compute-cluster wise, and I agreed that he's both a bit nerdy and also a really good guy.Another professor I supported walked down a bit later, and I related the story.He mentioned to me he'd been over to this other prof's house; they have children of similar age; and he noticed a 2E Legends & Lore book on his coffee table.He asked about it, as he'd played in the past.Turns out that particular book was in use by his wife, who teaches Theology at another university in town. Evidently Legends & Lore is such a succinct source of information on major real-world theologies she uses it as a reference in one of her classes.My wife herself has had a student base a project on taxonomy and classification on the Monster Manual.Any other RPG books you'd elect to be used as a teaching aid?</blockquote>