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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trainz" data-source="post: 1212396" data-attributes="member: 2122">(this thread really has me going...) Here's a personal example of why gamers are NOT more intelligent. My SO (significant other) of 9 years... I tried to interest her again and again to RPG's. She humored me a few times, even played for two months in my last D20 Modern game, never enjoyed it, not her bag. She's a chartered accountant. A VERY INTELLIGENT one. What she does lack (and she said so herself again and again, in non-RPG related discussions), is IMAGINATION. She has very little creativity. She does enjoy sci-fi and heroic fantasy (who read erotic, you little pervs, mmm ?), but in books or movies. She can't just sit down by herself in a comfy chair, her eyes blank, with no outside media, mind filled with scenarios of epic medieval battles and galactic empires at war, like ALL OF US do. This is the marginal trait that all gamers share. Not intelligence, IMAGINATION. Now if you ask if gamers in general have greater imagination than the average peeps, the answer will be a resounding YES. Imagination is the prime building block of our hobby. It doesn't take a great mathematical mind to add 14 to a d20 roll. It does absolutely need an imaginative one to find it FUN and want to do it again and again, every week, for years and years.  If you can't imagine and picture in your mind what those stats and die rolls portray, it is absolutely and definitely impossible to stick to this hobby for any given length of time. The first time I was exposed to the hobby, it felt like I was born for the first time. I felt a part of myself that has been locked-up for decades explode to the surface of my mind. I was so exalted by the event that I was totally enthralled by it for the first years. I couldn't be thankful enough. It was a religious thing, man.</blockquote>

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