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How has gaming helped you?
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Imhotepthewise
Explorer
I was a school mushroom. I was always "there" but never "there". I made it by on personality. There was no quality. My work was sloppy and incomplete, if there at all. No organization, no organization, no math skills, no hope. I was "not working to my potential". That was the '70s.
What I had was ADHD.
Enter the Navy, go to school, still no great success. Squeak by on good behavior.
Sitting there in the barracks one day absentmindedly drawing in my sketchbook a scaly dragon, the guy on watch says "that's neat. Do you play D&D?". The long story short is I played D&D every spare moment from that time for a year and a respectable amount of time since then. My imagination would not allow me to sit as a player; I was DMing from nearly from the start.
From a woeful high school transcript to a college degree with honors. The organization, writing and math skills, and quality of work I attribute to learning to play roleplaying games. It focused my interest like nothing else before.
I have a 15 year old son who plays, I have seen how RPGs have focused him enough to make the same improvements. He is an Eagle Scout and a reasonably good student.
Behind medication, for imaginative and bright children, RPGs are proven therapy for ADHD. IMHO.
What I had was ADHD.
Enter the Navy, go to school, still no great success. Squeak by on good behavior.
Sitting there in the barracks one day absentmindedly drawing in my sketchbook a scaly dragon, the guy on watch says "that's neat. Do you play D&D?". The long story short is I played D&D every spare moment from that time for a year and a respectable amount of time since then. My imagination would not allow me to sit as a player; I was DMing from nearly from the start.
From a woeful high school transcript to a college degree with honors. The organization, writing and math skills, and quality of work I attribute to learning to play roleplaying games. It focused my interest like nothing else before.
I have a 15 year old son who plays, I have seen how RPGs have focused him enough to make the same improvements. He is an Eagle Scout and a reasonably good student.
Behind medication, for imaginative and bright children, RPGs are proven therapy for ADHD. IMHO.
Inconsequenti-AL
Breaks Games
(A)DnD has prepared me for alien invasion by giving me the unthinking instinct to hack the head off any green coloured humanoid I ever meet.
More interest in history and how things work. Before gaming most of those things were BORING but once I started gaming, I started to apply information from news, history, gadgets and what not into my games.
It also gave me a better understanding of different cultuals, governments, and nature.
It also gave me a better understanding of different cultuals, governments, and nature.
Neo
Explorer
How has gaming helped me...
Oddly this is something i've considered much over the years...and if it wasn;t for all the positives i'm sure i'd have left the hobby years ago, but as things stand i'd say the positives list as follows;
1. Better knowledge of History (weapons, armor, geography, siege weapons, cultures, languages and so on)
2. Increased vocabulary (seriously think of all the obscure words you know now, which without roleplaying you may never have heard of let alone used)
3. improved social skills (Mixing with friends, students, and other gamers)
4. Vastly improved Imagination (Crafting a campaign, or adventure)
5. Literary development (writing stories, providing descriptions etc.)
6. Acting and Drama Developments (playing NPC's, giving them realism and voices)
7. Increased Creativity (handouts, maps, and so forth)
8. Improved ability to plan, and coordinate events and groups of people.
9. Improved Phone skills (seriously think of all those tricky take away orders you have had to take care of <G>)
10. Improved Computer Skills (spreadsheets, keyboard skills, layout, template design, databases, art software....etc)
Oddly this is something i've considered much over the years...and if it wasn;t for all the positives i'm sure i'd have left the hobby years ago, but as things stand i'd say the positives list as follows;
1. Better knowledge of History (weapons, armor, geography, siege weapons, cultures, languages and so on)
2. Increased vocabulary (seriously think of all the obscure words you know now, which without roleplaying you may never have heard of let alone used)
3. improved social skills (Mixing with friends, students, and other gamers)
4. Vastly improved Imagination (Crafting a campaign, or adventure)
5. Literary development (writing stories, providing descriptions etc.)
6. Acting and Drama Developments (playing NPC's, giving them realism and voices)
7. Increased Creativity (handouts, maps, and so forth)
8. Improved ability to plan, and coordinate events and groups of people.
9. Improved Phone skills (seriously think of all those tricky take away orders you have had to take care of <G>)
10. Improved Computer Skills (spreadsheets, keyboard skills, layout, template design, databases, art software....etc)
Undead Pete
First Post
Well, when I LARPED a bit back in college, it helped me get laid. 
Nothing like a goth chick who wants to make up for being a goody-two-shoes in high school.
Nothing like a goth chick who wants to make up for being a goody-two-shoes in high school.
